When God Does What He Speaks in Silence

Now from ancient times it was known that Assyria was a great and powerful kingdom. It had three periods or ages in each of which were all kinds of kings who ruled with the iron rod and conquered most of Mesopotamia by 612 B.C. during the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

Assyrians were literally a feared stock of people who seemed relentless at crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. They were equally inventive as they were destructive for most of their inventions were used to undermine city walls and knock down city gates. Their engineers were more of military scientists than socially contributing inventors. Simply put, they were a fearsome people of war.

The Bible is the only source to which we can turn to trace the birth of the Assyrian people through Noah's son Shem and in turn, Asshur, which makes them a Semitic race. Surprising though, most of the kingdoms conquered by the Assyrians were equally populated by Semitic people. This goes to say that the Assyrians were indeed a contemptuous breed of people who regarded neither brother nor slave they just wanted the land they wanted and it could have been one-tenth of the world we know of today.

One such example of an attempt made by a certain Assyrian king who sought to make war with his fellow Semitic brethren, Jerusalem, was King Sennacherib. The king's name translates to "The moon god has replaced lost brothers for me" but his fate was to bear witness to the might of his gods in his times.

There came a time, when it dawned upon the great Sennacherib that he should overtake Jerusalem and bring it under his siege. Hence, he worked his way to Lachish and while he was at war with Lachish, he sent his cupbearer and chief officers with a great army to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem to warn him of a devastating attack should he rebel against the authority of Assyria. The words of Sennacherib were utterly terrifying that it caused King Hezekiah's servants to tear their clothes before they brought the word to their king who in turn was equally terrified as his servants and sent for Isaiah, the prophet.

Isaiah brought back word from God saying that the King should not fret for He had a perfect plan for the man in whose hands He had placed the rod of punishment, Sennacherib.

Now the God of Israel is mightier than anyone can assume Him to be. He is who he is and there is none like Him. Even today Assyria is wagging its tongue about wiping Israel clean from the face of the earth. Today, Assyria has a nice name like Iran and Sennacherib a face like Ahmedinejad's. But it won't be too long before the fate of Sennacherib falls upon him. That night God looked upon the distress that was upon King Hezekiah's heart and because the king did not refuse to turn to The LORD God, Isaiah revealed the justice that God was going to exact upon Israel's deadliest foe.

The cupbearer returned with more heart-aching profanity and blasphemy from the King of Assyria who was warring with Libnah at that time. The King of Judah and his servants turned to The LORD God in sackcloth and ashes and that was really all they had to do for a battle against the Assyrian soldiers who camped outside Jerusalem waiting to take over the city in the morning.

That night, the Angel of the LORD went out into the camp of the Assyrians and smote 185,000 (one hundred and eighty five thousand) men, and in the morning when the rest rose, they found their fellow men dead.

Now it's rather predictable what Sennacherib would have done right after. Indeed he left as God had prophesied through Isaiah, but it's the fate I am talking about here, not just what he did when he woke up to find his 185,000 men lying dead.

The Assyrian King was utterly relinquished that he went back to his hometown, Nineveh and hid there writing about his defeat in a proud manner stating that there was no defeat but a considerable offering made by King Hezekiah whom he had 'caged' like a bird in Jerusalem to end the siege attempts on Jerusalem. That's so Persian!

Sennacherib would be a moron to let go of Jerusalem after sacking 46 cities that belonged to King Hezekiah all at the payment of a sack of loot. At least his own account made him look like one. He was so prideful that he could not accept his defeat and tried to alter history in the way it was supposed to be told. That's so Persian again!

Eventually, Sennacherib died by the sword of the hand of his two sons while he was praying to Nisroch his god as was prophesied by Isaiah through the spirit of God.

In all my years of reading and evaluating significant events in history, I have come to a conclusion that history repeats itself and it is fair enough to state that any man who wags his tongue against the Chosen People of God, which is Israel and the Jewish people, is bound to see an unexpected disaster that will put an end to him in the most shameful manner. The moral of the story is not to boast against the LORD God of heaven and earth and repent while there is still time. Man can say what they want and try to do, but God will surely do what He has spoken in silence! Leaders of countries who are against Israel and the Jewish nation, you could be next.