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And in the desolation which shall come from far to whom will you flee for help and Where will you leave your glory without me? They shall bow down under the prisoners and they shall fall under the slain for all this his anger is not Turned away, but his hand is stretched out still and if you remember from last week That was that phrase came up over and over again Which is obviously a continuation of what we read in chapter 9 Continuing to talk about God's judgment and he's talking about the day of visitation The desolation which shall come from a from far it's an invading army that's going to come from a faraway land that's going to come in and visit and come upon the people and And destroy them it's the desolation is going to bring desolation To the area and he says to whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your glory? So who you gonna run to there's nobody to help you verse 4 says without me They shall bow down under the prisoners because they've turned their back on the Lord They left the Lord as their defense as their shield as the righteousness. So now who you're turning to flee for help Because God's the one that's bringing this nation in upon you now, where are you gonna go? Hey without me They shall bow down under the prisoners and they shall fall under the slain For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still verse 5 Oh Assyrian The rod of mine anger and the staff in their hand is mine indignation and this is saying and this is a topic that was probably spend the most time on this evening is Just the concept of God Using foreign armies and in foreign countries to bring judgment upon his people and upon any nation he deems that he needs to judge and he uses this all the time and America needs to not be so confident and oh we have the mighty Military and oh we have all this other stuff because you know what if God is against you who can be for you Right if God if God be with us who's against us, right who could be against us? Well, you know we can do all things through God would strengthen it thus but you know what if God is against us What are the flesh are you gonna trust in that's gonna save you from the Lord? Doesn't exist Though hand join in hand though the whole world band together and unite God could just snap his fingers With his word just consume The entire population in an instant if God wants something to happen believe me It'll happen and if God's gonna bring judgment you have nowhere to turn He's talking about using a Syria as the rod of his anger, that's the instrument That's the tool that he's using to go now forth and judge his people to go and judge the children of Israel Verse 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation. That's one of the things that makes them angry So there's the rod of his anger Why is he angry because they're a hypocritical nation? Because they claim that they would lay love the Lord they claim that they worship the Lord as you read on Sunday in Malachi Right the same type of persons the same type of people the same type of priests They got dung on their face that are saying you know. Oh, we worship the Lord. Yeah We're holding these feasts and their heart is far from them. They don't really believe this stuff They're worshipping idols are doing all other things to Make God angry, and they're just a bunch of stinking hypocrites and Against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mire of the streets Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart thing so this is talking about now the heart of Assyria But it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few Assyria doesn't even need to know that they're being used of God that doesn't matter They've got their own agenda, but you know what God is the one behind the the scenes pulling the strings on Assyria going and judging the people