Sun.’s Devo - God’s Purposes

Read: Isaiah 15:1-21:17; Galatians 2:1-16; Psalm 59:1-17; Proverbs 23:13-14
God told Isiah to speak what was going to happen in Egypt. He needed it spoken into the atmosphere so it would manifest on earth. That is what prayer is all about. It is creating God’s purposes here on earth. God was coming to judge Egypt and all the spirits that dwelt there knew it and were afraid. They were so scared they gave confusing and stupid advise to the leaders of Egypt. The king became cruel and tyrannical because fear causes a person to become controlling and mean. The waters of the Nile dried up and the land stunk. The people despaired and lost hope. God had sent them a spirit of dizziness that made Egypt stagger like a drunk man.
Years later, five cities in Egypt would speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord and one of them would be the one called the City of Destruction. This means that five major cities of Egypt would have the revelation of God Almighty and return to him. The City of Destruction was probably Heliopolis which was known as the city of the sun. It is where they worshipped the sun but ,would worship the Father. One day, they will worship the true Son.
Believers would be in Egypt, Assyria and Israel and they would come to a common faith in God. This happened during Alexander the Great’s rule. Later, Sargon ruled Assyria and he invaded both Israel and Egypt. God told Isaiah to walk stripped of his sackcloth and barefooted for three years to foretell how the people would be led by the Assyrians from Egypt and Cush. Isaiah tried to warn his people to get ready for battle because the Assyrians were coming.
Isaiah stood watch waiting for reports of what was happening in the world. He got news that Babylon had fallen to the Assyrians and that Kedar was next. God does nothing that he doesn’t first warn through his prophets.
It had been 14 years since Paul’s conversion and the counsel of the apostles had agreed that you didn’t have to be circumcised to be a Christian, yet some ministers had come through Galatia preaching that circumcision was a way to “higher revelation” and Peter and Barnabas had bought into it. Paul made it clear that salvation was by faith in Jesus, period.
Lord, thank you that you deliver us from our enemies and we do not have to fear what is happening on the earth because we know that our Redeemer lives! Thank you for your plans and purposes that will always win.