Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 36-38.
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When the Assyrian field commander spoke to King Hezekiah’s representatives outside Jerusalem (but within earshot of the city wall), initially he claimed that Sennacherib was acting at the command of the Lord.  He made the argument that God was actually on the side of the Assyrians.  However, after Hezekiah’s representatives asked him to not speak so that the people of the city on the walls could understand him, he revealed his true beliefs.  This reminded me of something we often come across today; those who use the Bible, or Christian  ideas to promote their non-Christian goals.  We should be careful to not be fooled by their appeal to Biblical authority into believing that they actually care about acting in a way consistent with the Bible.  Here the Assyrians tried to use religious language to sway the people of Jerusalem into surrendering.  In the same way many anti-religious people will attempt to use religious language to convince Believers to surrender.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.