Isaiah 8:4
4 For before the child [na`ar] shall have knowledge [yada`]
to cry, [qara'] My father, ['ab] and my mother, ['em] the
riches [chayil] of Damascus [Dammeseq] and the spoil [shalal] of
Samaria [Shomarown] shall be taken away [nasa'] before [paniym] the king [melek] of Assyria. ['Ashshuwr] KJV-Interlinear
4 for
before the boy knows how to cry out' My father' or' My mother,' the wealth of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of
Assyria." NASB
So from the time of this
prophecy, Isaiah’s wife would have to conceive and then nine months later give
birth, and then the child would have to grow up, and then before he spoke his
first words, perhaps by the age of two, the King of Assyria would invade both Samaria
and Syria. That effectively ends their
threat against Judah, which is the whole point of this prophecy and promise.
And in accordance with
the name of the child, that invasion would be swift and thorough, and the
plunder likewise great and thorough.
Both nations that had
designs of their own for Gods nation, Judah, would in fact see their own
demise. And that is a good lesson for us
all.
There are a lot of people
out there that would just as soon destroy you, as look at you.
Being of an evil nature,
all people who reject God, are by default evil.
All people who reject or
ignore God, which is just another form of rejection, are in fact evil and
prefer their own plans as opposed to the plans of God.
The plan of evil does not
include anything good, which is to say, you are excluded from the plans of a spiritually
negative world.
Judah and its king and
its people looked not to God, but to Assyria.
Their plans were likewise thwarted.
So, unless you look to
God, unless you comply with Gods wishes, unless you bend your knees and stiff
stubborn neck, in humility to Gods will, then you and your life will fail
miserably.
And by your life, we
include your eternal life, not just these few decades that you will live in
this world.
You may very well grow up
to become a billionaire, but that is irrelevant to the overall outcome of your life.
One day you will die and whatever is on your balance sheet will disappear
behind you, of which you will never see again. And, someone else will reap the
earthly rewards of your earthly efforts.
But too, they will die and that process will repeat itself, until one
day all of those earthly inheritances are eventually squandered and lost to
history.
Once you move on to the afterlife,
the only thing that you will take with you is your spiritual production, and
needless to say, if you take nothing, then you will have nothing. And given that your eternal life will last a
very long time, like forever, then your possession loss will be no less than an
infinite loss. So, put your calculator
on that concept, and figure if it is really worth ignoring all of this God
stuff.
Syria and Samaria
rejected God and they lost. If you reject
God, then you will lose. So how can you
possibly win?
