Isaiah
30:32
32 And in every place [kol] where the grounded [muwcadah] staff [matteh] shall pass [ma`abar], which the LORD [Yahovah] shall lay [nuwach] upon him, it
shall be with tabrets [toph] and harps [kinnowr]: and in battles [milchamah] of shaking [tanuwphah] will he fight [lacham] with it. KJV-Interlinear
32 And every stroke of the appointed staff
that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres.
Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. ESV
Grounded, is a
reference to a foundation, which refers to something that is permanently put in
its place and is unmovable. The grounded staff, refers to the judgment of God,
meaning with every stroke of punishment, that punishment is fixed upon the enemy,
such that they cannot escape.
And taking off
from the previous verse, the rod of Assyria, may inflict destruction, and to a
certain extent is even allowed by God, as He allows Assyria to inflict
punishment on disobedient people.
Jesus Christ
controls history. Jesus Christ controls history in three ways.
First, He has
direct control by means of His direct action. As God He created the universe,
and angels, and every living thing, including humanity.
Second, Christ
controls history through indirect control. By means of truth and Bible
doctrine, and through the laws of divine establishment, humanity is guided by
principles of law and order, due process, principles of free enterprise, and so
forth.
Third, Jesus
Christ controls history through permissive control. He allows the free will of
man to function freely. And by this, people will choose either for good or for
evil, which God allows that free choice, and thereby some people become
aggressive, while others become passive. And to some extent, the laws of the
jungle can rule throughout society. People can rise against people, nations can
rise against nations. And by this God allows evil to fight evil, as it were. Needless to say, people suffer from the repercussions
of their decisions.
But there is
always a line drawn in the sand. Evil can go so far, yet no farther.
Israel had become
evil, and therefore God allowed Assyria to punish Israel, by means of their
invasion. Something that Israel brought on itself by being weak, by being
unprepared, by choosing evil rather than truth, by choosing the world rather
than God.
Anytime and every
time, a person rejects God and turns to the resources of the world, then you
can only expect that the evils of the world will turn against you.
But evil goes only
so far. When God brings a halt to it, then we have here the strokes of God’s
punishment, setting deep as a foundation, into those who would presume to take
the law into their own hands.
And the result?
Evil is brought to
a halt, defeated, and even overturned. The rod of Assyria is replaced by the
rod of God.
The suffering and
sorrows brought on by the attacks of evil, when evil is defeated, are replaced
by the tambourines and music of deliverance and freedom.
And battling with
the shaking or brandished arm, is a reference to only one person, namely Jesus
Christ, who flexes the muscle of His will, and engages in a fight where the
outcome is already determined.
And that fight of
course, always results in a victory for Christ.
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