My current devotions are in the book of Isaiah, and the Lord brought these two thoughts to mind as I read:
1. God’s exhaustive foreknowledge (i.e., his complete knowledge of the future, flowing from his sovereignty over the future) is such that he could call Cyrus by name about 120-150 years before the birth of the Persian emperor (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1). Is it any reason the Lord declares that he alone is God, and there is no other? (See Isaiah 45:5.)
2. Really bad governments try to set themselves up in the place God alone should have over their citizens. In Isaiah 47:8, 10, we see that Babylon was so depraved, she declared herself to be I AM, the title God alone bears (Exodus 3:14).
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