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8 illustrations for sermon preparation
Yet Exell's Victorian commentary redirects this judgment toward the Church's calling, extracting three marks of the Christian standard-bearer.
Isaiah 10:3 poses a devastating question: "What will ye do in the day of visitation?" Joseph Exell identifies three distinct types of divine visitation in 1887's *Biblical Illustrator*.
Matthew Henry observed that when the Almighty permits enemies to prevail against Zion and Jerusalem, He ordains this affliction for a redemptive purpose—to perform a "whole work" of refining grace.
Blake notes this luminous title describes God Himself, not merely His attributes.
The slaughter of the Midianites under Gideon (Judges 7) becomes the type—the historical precedent—for Yahweh's coming judgment upon Assyria.
When men and women engage their ambitions with fierce determination, they unwittingly declare independence from Elohim, attempting to wrest the government of the universe from His hand.
The prophet's rhetorical question—"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?"—exposes the folly of the Assyrian king, who attributed his conquests entirely to his own skill and military might, ignorant that Yahweh wielded him as an instrument.
Isaiah 10:14 records the Assyrian conqueror's arrogant declaration: "My hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people." This metaphor exposes the depth of human depravity when power corrupts the soul. The imagery is deliberately contemptuous. A child...
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