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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 19:25-37
The pride of the king of Assyria had become inflated beyond bounds, for up till then nothing had been able to resist him. Note his repeated use of the word "I" in vv. 23, 24. But this pride is the more frightful in that he is measuring his strength against God Himself. The foolish pretension of man to be "equal with God" (Philippians 2:6) is clearly seen in the world of today. Through science, technology, and the progress for which it claims all the credit, the world is passing rapidly towards the time when man will worship himself in the person of a "Superman" who will be the Antichrist.
The Assyrian is also a figure in prophecy: a formidable Asiatic power who, in the future, will invade Palestine and will lay siege to Jerusalem. But this power will be destroyed at the appearing of the Lord Jesus, prefigured here by the angel of the LORD. The Assyrian camp is destroyed in a single night. Then Sennacherib in his turn is assassinated by his own sons in the temple of his god Nisroch. The man who had declared that the LORD could not deliver Hezekiah is smitten down in the presence of his idol god, who is quite incapable of protecting him.
Thus God is glorified, and we can be sure that He always will be, when He delivers His faithful servant.
