Isaiah 10:16
16 Therefore shall the Lord, ['adown] the Lord ['Adonay] [Yahovah] of hosts, [tsaba'] send [shalach] among his fat ones [mashman]
leanness; [razown] and under his glory [kabowd] he shall kindle [yaqad] a
burning [yaqowd] like the burning of a fire. ['esh] KJV-Interlinear
16 Therefore
the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout
warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame. NASB
The Lord, ‘Adonay,’
refers to the sovereign, the controller, the Lord, the master, the authority.
Lord, ‘Adonay Yahovah,’
refers to the proper name of the Lord, ‘Adonay,’ then combined with ‘Yahovah,’
meaning the self-existent one, eternal, the name given the second person of the
trinity, also designated as the Son of God.
Therefore, the unique God
of the universe and beyond, who is the sovereign authority over all that exists
and beyond, shall send onto Assyria, a leanness, ‘razown,’ a thinness, reduced
in vigor and reduced in strength.
Assyria fell to its own luxury and fatness of wealth. They grew lazy of mind as well as lazy of
body.
Anyone, no matter how
courageous or strong, will fall when they lack doctrine and truth in their soul.
Only Bible doctrine
provides the basis and foundation for contentment in life regardless of ones
circumstances.
Things, material things
never create contentment in ones life.
Only the content of ones soul can bring contentment into ones life and
existence. Things are external. Only the soul is the integral part of your essence
and existence. Therefore you have to
have content inside of you that will bring contentment inside of you.
God is the sovereign over
all that is. Assyria thought that it was
sovereign over its own existence and destiny.
Not so.
And God will bring a
burning fire. And this is the burning of
invasion.
When Assyria invaded they
burned and stole and killed and so forth.
When the time comes,
another, Babylon, will bring the same ingredients to Assyria. They will be invaded and they will see
destruction. And as they say, what goes
around, comes around. And that certainly applies to evil in every respect. What evil you do will come back on you.
The very worst kind of
evil is indifference toward ones own spiritual life. You sow nothing , and you get nothing. And that nothing lasts forever.
