In today’s reading, we will explore the way God spoke through time to a man yet to be born. Isaiah was a true prophet of God, which means that his prophecies were not good guesses, and they were not political forecasting, they were messages from God Almighty. Isaiah was living in the time of the dominance of the Assyrian Empire. Assyria had just destroyed Northern Israel, and so far, no one had been able to stop them. Even still, Isaiah prophesied beyond the time of Assyria, who would fall to Babylon, he prophesied about the man that would lead a coalition of
forces to destroy the Babylonian Empire, Cyrus. Isaiah calls Cyrus out by name over 200 years before he was born. Generations later, Cyrus would hear this message in the Hebrew Scriptures. What a shock that must have been! He wasn’t a Hebrew, he had not grown up with teachings from the Scriptures, and yet there were instructions to him from God. Today, we will explore how God called this Cyrus, leader of the Medes and Persians.
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