Nothing!
Isaiah 35:4
Say to those who are fearful-hearted,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Behold, your God will come with vengeance,
With the recompense of God;
He will come and save you.”
Trust in Him alone to protect, guide and deliver you from he who wants to destroy you. Our enemies are spiritually discerned. He only want to kill, steal and destroy Gods’ people. Greater is He in you than he that is in this world.
Isaiah 37:5–7
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ” The New King James Version
2 Peter 3:14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,
God’s word will always be fulfilled. We can rest in peace knowing that He is in total control. We are made clean in Christ and held blameless by faith in Him. Jesus’ return is kept at bay by God so that as many as possible will make the choice to accept Him and be saved. Peter recognized that Paul preached the truth of Jesus and salvation. Both knew that the only way to the Father is in the Son.
We are kept in faith as Holy Spirit matures us in God’s grace.
Galatians 2:9 9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do. No Return to the Law
James, Peter and John recognized that their ministry was to the circumcision, the house of Israel, in the Gospel of the Kingdom and Paul’s was to the Gentiles in the Gospel of Grace. It was all about accepting Jesus to the Jew as their King and to Gentiles as the gift of the Father to all who would accept Him. Peter and the Apostles remained faithful to the Jewish believers in Christ. They realized that the Gentiles were included in God’s plan of salvation.
2 Peter 1:16
Those who followed Jesus didn’t believe fables devised by man but they had experienced first hand the miracles and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
We continually give thanks to the grace given to us in Christ. We are daily being transformed into mature believers waiting for His return. He never lets go of us.
Hezekiah frames the conflict not as an appeal to rescue Judah for their sake or because of an automatic defense of Zion, but as a defense of God’s own honor. Yahweh may not be drawn into the conflict due to Judah’s sinfulness, but will perhaps arise to defend His reputation.
Judah has been overrun by Sennacherib’s armies who took all of Judah’s fortified cities. Hezekiah sees Jerusalem as the sole surviving remnant of Judah. Isaiah reassures Hezekiah with a message of trust similar to what he told Ahaz. While Ahaz responds with a lack of trust, Hezekiah shows piety.
He shall hear a rumor possibly a rumor of unrest back home, or an allusion to the movements of an army of Egypt. His return to his own land may indicate the rumor is about a plot to remove him from power—not uncommon among Assyrian kings. Sennacherib is later assassinated. Faithlife Study Bible
This section validates Isaiah’s predictions that the Lord would (1) destroy Judah through Assyria (36:1), (2) besiege Jerusalem (36:2–22), (3) deliver the faithful remnant (37:1–35), and destroy the Assyrians (37:36–38).
Isaiah proclaims that sin compounded with misplaced confidence brings defeat; conversely, repentance and faith in the Lord brings deliverance.
Judah had refused to listen to Isaiah’s insistence that reliance on Egypt was worthless. Here they were given the same warning from their enemy. Hezekiah had destroyed the idolatrous high places and altars that his father Ahaz had built. The NKJV Study Bible
This chapter is the same as 2 Kings 19:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ” Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Prayers spoken in faith from humble hearts impact both what is seen and what is unseen. As we pray, we may wonder about when and how God will answer in tangible ways. But the answers to our prayers also include what God is doing, by His grace, in unseen, spiritual realms. As we choose to trust Him regardless of what we see, our faith grows and we experience His victory, for nothing can cancel God's great love (Romans 8:38-39). Today God's great love has been fully demonstrated in the giving of His Son, Jesus, for our sins. When we pray through faith in Christ, we don't have to wonder if help will come. In Christ, we know help is here. The Helper, His Holy Spirit, lives in us (John 14:15-17)! Any time we cry out to God, we will receive all the help we need. Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 17:13-14), also encountered spiritual warfare. In Matthew 4:1-11, Satan himself tried to tempt Jesus. But Jesus defeated him using the Truth of God's Word. As we focus on knowing and living the Truth in Christ, we, too, will be victorious over sin, death, the enemy and his followers. First5
Where do you hear the voice of Grace? Seriously.
And when did you hear it last?
And, are you willing to be loved for being this you? And this, from Anthony de Mello. “I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them, and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, ‘Don't change. I love you just as you are.’ Those words were music to my ears: ‘Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are.’ I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!”
Yes. Grace, the voice that allows us to be at home in our own skin. Sabbath Moments
Christ could come at any moment. I believe that with all my heart—not just because of what I read in the Scriptures, but also because of what I read in the news. To be clear, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Matthew 24:36 BSB). The exact time remains hidden. While we cannot know the day or hour, we can know the signs. Wouldn’t you agree that the signs of our day warrant our vigilance? We have a choice. We can view the future through the eyes of fear or faith. The eyes of fear see little reason for hope and ample reason for anxiety. The eyes of faith see history inching closer and closer to a new era, a heavenly destiny. Max Lucado
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