In the midst of the judgement and the disintegrating human society we get another prophecy of the Messiah. When we see chaos and disintegration all around us we should also be looking to see how God will reveal Himself in the midst of it, and part of this is almost certainly to be through us living as His faithful people. In all circumstances our first priority should be to ask ourselves how we can live as God's people in this situation.
The stone is Christ. He is completely reliable and we can trust in Him completely. He is a sure foundation in times of trouble. He will rule with justice and righteousness, and no one will be able to hide from this.
The attempts of Israel to seek safety through her "covenant with death" (ie seeking to avoid calamity by making an deal with Assyria) would come to nothing.
When the people finally understood the message they would be filled with terror for they would realise that God was fighting against them. This is His "strange work".
The chapter finished with a poem proclaiming the wisdom of the Lord, it is similar in sentiment to Paul's words at the end of Roman 11:33-36. Somehow through all this the will of the Lord is established. When seeing the judgement ones natural reaction is that this is it forever, there will never be any change. But one does not sow seeds forever, nor break up ground for ever. One plants for a purpose, breaks up ground for a purpose. The planting and breaking comes to an end, and then there is a time of harvest.
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