54:14
“In righteousness you will be established”. So many people seem to see God’s “love” as a matter of God agreeing with us, or simply overlooking our sins. This is not a Biblical view. There are two key things involved in our salvation. One is that we are justified through the cross, through the shedding of blood. The full price of our sin has been paid for. The second is that the Holy Spirit works in our lives to make us evermore Christlike. Only then will tyranny and terror be far from us. Righteousness is a fundamental component of salvation.
54:15
When Assyria and then Babylon attacked Israel it was God’s doing! He sent these nations against Israel and Judah as judgement upon Israel. This does not mean everything Babylon or Assyria did was right, but the basic fact was that God was judging Israel and Judah. Now that we are justified this will happen no longer. It does not mean we will never suffer, but if we are attacked it will not be God’s doing, and by faith in Christ they will surrender to us.
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