{"id":7580,"date":"2016-05-13T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:58:48","slug":"undue-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/05\/13\/undue-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Undue Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride. For he says: <\/p>\n

\u201cBy the strength of my hand I have done it,
\nand by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
\nI have removed the boundaries of peoples,
\nand have plundered their treasures;
\nlike a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
\nMy hand has found, like a nest,
\nthe wealth of the peoples;
\nand as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
\nso I have gathered all the earth;
\nand there was none that moved a wing,
\nor opened its mouth, or chirped.\u201d
\nShall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it,

\nor the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it?
\nAs if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up,
\nor as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood! (Isaiah 10:12-15)<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever good you manage to accomplish, it is actually God who did it (see 1 Corinthians 15:10, Philippians 2:13). In 722 BC the Assyrians would conquer the Northern Kingdom of Israel and carry a bit less than 30,000 people away as captives. God decided to bring the Assyrians against the Israelites to punish them and by so punishing, to help them realize the error of their ways so that they could repent and turn back to God. <\/p>\n

Unlike God, the Assyrians cared only about conquest. They imagined themselves to be in charge of their own fates, achieving their own ends, oblivious to the hand of God in their lives.<\/p>\n

Although God judged his people, they remained his people\u2014and there remained the old promise he had made to Abraham: \u201cthose who curse you, I will curse.\u201d (Genesis 12:1-3) So even though the Assyrians were fulfilling God\u2019s purposes, they fell under his condemnation, both for their arrogance, and for daring to harm Israel. <\/p>\n

God\u2019s judgment on Assyria fell within two generations, when the Assyrian army, together with their Egyptians allies, were defeated at a place called Carchemish in 605 BC by Nebuchadnezzar and his father. God judged the judgmental.<\/p>\n

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