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Planning Without God
Again, the prophet returns to Judah’s call to Egypt for help against the Assyrian invasion. What moved the prophet to address Judah’s leaders with a strong rebuke and biting satire was that their war planning not only ignored and factored God out of their plans, but that they also asked an idol-worshipping nation to be their help! Yahweh was passed over for the military of Egypt. The fact is that Egypt could only take Judah’s money, but did nothing to turn the Assyrian army away; Yahweh did that. Isaiah called Judah’s behavior sin.
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The Flesh
Paul realized that Christians do not always understand how we can instantly slide from being obedient in the spirit, to sinning against the Holy Spirit; how our spiritual nature is duped and or overpowered by our fallen nature – that sinful nature – the old nature also known as “the flesh.” To help them understand, he makes it painfully clear that this nature is completely corrupt, beyond reconciliation, and without exception it is contrary to God and my quest for Christlikeness; my flesh is my enemy that wars against God and me. But Paul’s lesson does not stop there. He clearly teaches that the solution is found only in Christ and saves the sinner from all condemnation; all who pursue the life in the Spirit
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The Lion’s Altar
This is the day of the Assyrian siege where Jerusalem would suffer a horrible fate without God’s intervention. However,God did intervene, as Isaiah said He would. The prophet was inspired by God to address Jerusalem as “Ariel.” Ariel literally means “lion of God.” It also became used by the prophets as “altar of God.” This duel meaning characterized God’s desire for Jerusalem, to be His city of heroism and sacrifice. The Divine King of Peace, Jesus Christ, is the very personification of heroism as the Lion of Judah, and sacrifice as the Lamb of God. He is the fulfillment of what Jerusalem was supposed to broadcast to the world.
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Guilty of Christianity
In an attempt to lessen tensions in the Jerusalem Church, Paul followed the appeasement plan of James, the half-brother of the Lord. This plan failed. While Paul was on the temple grounds he was recognized and grabbed. The crowd was stirred to wrath against Paul on charges that he spoke against Judaism and the temple. These charges were not entirely true, but what was true was that Paul was guilty of Christianity: preaching that a soul is saved by the finished work of Christ on the Cross and not by any work of man, including circumcision, diet, or Sabbath keeping.
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