As the Lord again speaks through Isaiah, He sends the message to Hezekiah. The first thing this of which this is passage speaks, and it speaks very strongly, is how the intoxicating worldly unholy success is. The tone of this Assyrian monarch was one of insolent arrogance. His military achievements had given him the notion that he had done much greater things than he had actually accomplished, and had exerted the idea that he could achieve other things which were wholly out of his power. He magnifies his victories and over-estimates his capacity (verses 23–25). This is the common consequence of success, even of success which is not unholy. It is sometimes the unhappy result of success in Church ministries too. Then how much more it is found to be, the result in the case of those who “fear not God, nor regard man”! Unholy success intoxicates. It makes men imagine that they have done far greater things than they have achieved, and that they have become far greater people than they are. It often provides much pride as with Sennacherib, which his arrogance passed into blaspheming. The entire passage, demonstrates God’s stern disapproval. Those who do these things don’t seem to understand that it is God in Whose hand their breath is, and to whom they are accountable for everything they do. He regards them with deep, Divine displeasure. His awful anger rests upon them. God always provides to those whom He has to punish with penalties suited to their sins.
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