ENGAGING THE WORD TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS TIME OF LIFE

                     A TEACHING BY: ADETAYO BENJAMIN   (SERIES THREE)

We are truly going through hard time and it is very important to take into consideration that the word of God as contained in the bible is coming to fulfilment.

For this reason I will like to elaborate on that book of Isaiah chapter 10. Let’s begin by considering the following;

·        Who are the unjust judges and those who issues unfair law?

·        Who is the king of Assyria?

·        Who are the remnants in Israel and Judah?

In our context today, these unjust judges and those who issues unfair law exemplify the wicked people that are in position of power and this cut across every level of life. These wicked people are in every continent, country, state, local government, institutions, council, family and there are scattered all over the face of the world.

The king of Assyria exemplify the Devil who is also the prince of this world.

The remnants in Israel and Judah exemplify the saints of God who will survive this trying time.

What we are seeing in the world today is a major part of the events that will usher the second coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The current Covid-19 Pandemic whether it was instigated by certain people in order to gain world power as we read on the media or it came from other means as a result of some other causes, I hope to let’s acknowledge this one truth that Almighty God reigns and HE rules over all affairs of men. So nothing that has happened so far that God is not aware of.

May I summit to us that more plague will come even after now, there will be difficult time greater than what we are experiencing now, there will be more shaking and many people will definitely pass away with these occurrences, even the saints (believers) and some of our love ones. This is not a curse and it is not a new prophecy but the truth that we should be prepared for.

All this happening in a way is aim at creating fear upon the inhabitants of the world, but then these are the things that must happen to enable the enthronement of Christ Jesus as King over this world.

In Isaiah chapter 10 verse 24 through 25 the Lord God says, "O my people in Jerusalem, don't be afraid of the Assyrians when they oppress you just as the Egyptians did long ago. 25 It will not last very long; in a little while my anger against you will end, and then it will rise against them to destroy them." 

See the reason the anger of the Lord will be vented upon the Assyrians;

16 Because of all your evil boasting, O king of Assyria, the Lord of Hosts will send a plague among your proud troops and strike them down. 17 God, the Light and Holy One of Israel, will be the fire and flame that will destroy them. In a single night he will burn those thorns and briars, the Assyrians who destroyed the land of Israel.

18 Assyria's vast army is like a glorious forest, yet it will be destroyed. The Lord will destroy them, soul and body, as when a sick man wastes away. 19 Only a few from all that mighty army will be left; so few a child could count them!

And see what the Lord God said concerning the remnant 

20 Then at last those left in Israel and in Judah will trust the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, instead of fearing the Assyrians. 21 A remnant of them will return to the mighty God. 22 But though Israel be now as many as the sands along the shore, yet only a few of them will be left to return at that time; God has rightly decided to destroy his people. 23 Yes, it has already been decided by the Lord God to consume them. (TLB)

So we can see from here that at the end of the war not everyone survive and return to the Lord but only a remnant.

This is to make us understand that many people will indeed go with this occurrences.

According to God’s promise this war will not last forever, it will surely be over. But the big question is;

Ø      Who are those that will be numbered among the remnant at the end of this war?

            TO BE CONTINUED……..