Isaiah sent a message and a warning from God to Babylon. God used Babylon and other nations as a tool to punish Israel as a way to bring them back into His good graces. However, those countries were too harsh and ruled over them with an iron fist; even older people and dignitaries from Israel were put under severe labor. So, to give them fair warning of their destruction, he sent them a message that includes this:
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, whichthou shalt not know. Isaiah 47:11
God is our loving and caring Father, so we can expect that He will take up for us when our enemy, Satan or his minions, comes and tries to destroy us. You may say, “But we aren’t Israel,” however, we are grafted in and adopted into the promise according to Paul. We may or may not be Israel by birth, but God chooses us through our salvation in Jesus, so we can take the promises He made to Israel as our own. So, when God promises that He will destroy our enemies, as He did for Israel, we should take it to heart and believe that He will be the recompense for us. I’ve seen it happen, and you don’t want to be on the wrong side of God or His children. Those people will pay the price and may find themselves living a lifestyle they never imagined; they will get what they deserve, and if they don’t learn from it, they will stay downtrodden, and no one will save them.
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. Isaiah 47:14-15
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