Read: Isaiah 45:11-48:11; Ephesians 4:1-18; Psalm 68:19-35; Proverbs 24:3-4
Many prophets today feel that Trump is a type of Cyrus. Yesterday, we read that Cyrus was a Persian king who God anointed to subdue nations and bring down kings. He was to make the crooked places straight and cut through hypocrisy and strongholds. God promised to give him the wealth of the wicked and wisdom. For the sake of God’s people, he called Cyrus before he knew God and chose him to rule for the elect’s sake. Woe to the person who fights against God and the one God chooses.
I have to agree with the prophets, but the first verse today says that if your don’t understand God’s choice you can ask him and he will tell you. God said that he raised up Cyrus in righteousness and He would direct his ways and through God, Cyrus would build God’s city. Cyrus would let the Jewish captives go back to Jerusalem and everyone would agree that God was in Cyrus.
Then we read about what will happen to those who had idols and trusted in things other than God. They would be put to shame and disgraced. The gods they served would fall to the power of God. God would prove himself to be the only God.
God tells them to remember the things God has done in the past because he makes known the end from the beginning. What he has said would happen will happen.
This is such a parallel to what God is doing right now in our nation and in the world. He is bringing to shame the deeds of satan and setting up his standard once again but it is a war in the spirit and in the natural.
To Babylon, God promises to bring down their pride and destroy them. They have lifted themselves above him and he is done with them.
To his covenant people who have not followed him in heart but only in words, he reminds them that he has given them fair warning. He will delay his wrath for his own sake but he will not give his glory to another.
In Ephesians, Paul admonishes them to live their lives to honor the grace God has given them. He wants them to mature in love and the gifts God has given them.
Lord, by your wisdom build our spiritual houses, through understanding may we be established and through knowledge my our rooms be filled with rare and beautiful treasures. Thank you for what you are doing in our nation. You promised you would save us and you are doing it. Help your people to unite in love and see your kingdom come to earth.
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