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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Isaiah 28:1-22
A third sub-division of the book begins with this ch. 28. It takes us back to give details about the invasion of Ephraim (the ten tribes), then of Judah by the formidable, prophetic Assyrian. Pride will have the same effect as drunkenness so as to lead astray the miserable Jewish people. They will believe that they can protect themselves effectively by making an alliance with death (that is, with the head of the Roman Empire). But that very act will be their ruin. Like a cyclone, the Assyrian will ravage Jerusalem. The LORD will use this "overflowing scourge" to carry out "his strange work . . . his strange act" — judgment, for His normal work is to save and bless (John 3:17).
But the collapse of all values and all man-made support is God’s opportunity to reveal the sure foundation which He placed in Zion. With what affection He contemplates it, pausing with pleasure over each expression: "a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation". Yes, this stone, representing Christ, was "disallowed of men" but is "precious to God" and it is also precious to those who believe (read 1 Peter 2:4; 1 Peter 2:6-7). For each one, the Lord Jesus becomes literally the touch stone. Is He, or is He not precious to our hearts?
