Isaiah 14:27
27 For the LORD [Yahovah] of hosts [tsaba'] hath purposed [ya`ats], and
who shall disannul [parar] it? and his hand [yad] is stretched out [natah],
and who shall turn it back [shuwb]? KJV-Interlinear
27 "For the Lord of hosts
has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who
can turn it back?" NASB
The title of God, Lord
of Hosts, is a designation of Gods universal sovereignty, authority and command
over any and all armies or entities.
Thus God controls history, since He possesses sovereign command over all
that is.
His proposed state of
the outcome of history, and of his plan, comes not by chance or by spontaneous
action, but from patient and diligent deliberation and determination over all
of the facts of history. God is fair and
thorough, leaving nothing to chance, but dealing only with certainties.
Therefore with
sovereign control, and with thorough consideration, then who can argue against
such truth?
And that answer is that
evil will argue, because evil is selfish and self-centered and is never
concerned with truth or facts, only with its own lust for that which God
possesses, namely control and authority and autonomy, which it will never
possess.
His hand stretched out,
is the final word and decision of God.
No one is higher than
God. No one is better than God. No one can out do God. No one knows more than God. No one can function or even exist without
God.
Therefore, this verse
is here to give assurance and confidence to those who are, or will be, under
the burdens and pressures and dangers and threats of life.
If you have aligned yourself
up with Gods will, then there is nothing and no one, nor any circumstance that
can remove you from Gods protection.
And what exactly is
Gods will?
For you to believe in
Christ, who is God, and thus be saved from eternal condemnation and separation from
God, and thus have eternal life and to live in heaven with Him forever.
For you to desire
knowledge and understanding of truth.
For you to comply with
His design and procedure for learning knowledge and understanding.
For you to confess your
sins on a regular basis in order to live in continual fellowship with God.
For you to live your spiritual
life as God intended for you to live it, meaning for you to grow up spiritually
by means of your daily study, while in fellowship, and use what you learn in your
daily life, thus having a spiritually productive life, in anything and
everything that you do in life.
For you to advance to
spiritual maturity and therefore become complete within yourself and with God.
As for the rest of your
earthly life, that is there for you to learn and understand and become oriented
to Gods truths, providing you with innumerable examples with which to measure
and gauge your life. To sustain you in
this world while you grow up spiritually.
To help you learn responsibility and accountability with respect to your
obligations to self, to others, and to God.
This is Gods desire and
resolve. Comply with His mandates and
you cannot fail in life. The objective
of your life is to become complete as God defines completeness, not as you
define convenience.
Disregard Gods design, and
then of course you fall in with everything that is against, or trying to live
against, Gods design, and that means certain and utter failure for you.
In the bigger picture,
God controls history, and evil though it will have had its freedom to operate
at will throughout history, will certainly cease when God decides that its time
is over.
