Monday, January 27, 2014

Yahweh's Whistle

“[The Lord] will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold quickly, speedily they come!” (Isaiah 5:26).

“In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria,” (Isaiah 7:17-18).

What if Israel truly understood that the world superpower they feared was only called forth by the whistle of Yahweh?  The great Assyria is like a little fly, like a dog being summoned, like a little peon that Yahweh finds scantily useful.  A great superpower that is actually a pawn and it doesn’t even know it’s a pawn.

What if we truly believed superpowers today are only pawns?  Sometimes useful, sometimes obsolete, yet they are always little pawns in a greater scheme –a greater scheme that will never make the NY Times.

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