Daily Archives: 28 December 2006

Israel’s sin was rejecting God in favor of earthly things. Even when they were faced with the looming threat of invasion by the Assyrians, they looked for help from Egypt instead of God. The irony of that earthly help is that history tells us that every one of those peoples were eventually overrun- Jerusalem, Egypt, Assyria, even Babylon that came later. There was no salvation to be found in the works of men, only the continuation of the destruction wrought by their own hands. Continue reading →