Wed.'s Devo - Great Things Come for Those Who Put Their Trust in You.

Read Isa. 33:1- 24
This is the fifth and final woe and it is against Assyria.  Assyria is the destroyer and the traitor.  They destroyed people that were not enemies and had never done anything to them.  When they have finished their ravaging they will be ravaged.  They had demanded money from Hezekiah so that Juda could live.  Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah had overlaid and gave them to the king of Assyria.  King Sennacherib came up against Judah anyway and his army surrounded Judah.  They tormented them and threatened Judah inhibiting their trade, and greatly affecting Judah's economy.  King Hezekiah and the remnant of Judah cried out to the Lord and the Lord heard their cry and sent Isaiah to give them God's word.  He told them to trust in the Lord who would fight for them.  They did and the angel of the Lord came at night and killed 185,000 Assyrian warriors.  King Sennacherib woke to find himself surrounded by corpses and tucked his tail and went back to Assyria.  When he got there he went into his temple of Nisroch and his own sons killed him with a sword.  Everything he had planned for God's people fell back on him.  He went to kill by the sword but he was killed by the sword.  He lost everything.  God is omnipotent and righteous and he will do what he promises.  He promised to forgive the sin of Judah and reestablish them and he will.  
How encouraging to read your Word and see what you do for those who put there whole trust in you.  You are so faithful.