News hit the airwaves on February 18, 2016, of Turkey’s capital in flames. A deadly suicide bomb in Ankara struck at military members during the city’s rush hour, killing 28 people. The authorities were frustrated, saying they were in “no position” to assess the guilty culprit.
Is there no place we can find security in our modern world?
In 600 B.C. the nation of Edom was the most secure in the world. No other people could defeat her. Her defenses at Petra were impregnable and had kept her secure for centuries. There was no way to come against Edom. She was supreme in all she did.
Sometimes we feel the troubles that come our way are like that, supremely powerful and able to strike at us at will, giving us no chance for retaliation. The world becomes our Edom, firebombing us from an impregnable fortress, and we can’t fight back. What are we to do? Who will help us out?
Jeremiah 49:21-22 tells us God can take the strongest fortress and bring it crashing to its knees in total destruction.
“The earth is moved at the noise of [Edom’s] fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the red sea. Behold, [Nebuchadnezzar} shall come up...and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.”
To put this scripture in modern language, the phrase “the earth is moved” tells us Edom will be extinguished as a nation, and there will be no hope of restoration. In fact, she shall be “as the heart of a woman in her pangs,” meaning Edom will come to an end with great pain and suffering.
When God steps on the scene, whatever oppresses us, no matter how entrenched it seems, will come to a horrible end. Family disagreements? Crushed by the mighty hand of God. Financial pressure? Decimated by the thrust of God’s fist. Illness? Smashed into smithereens by our Holy Lord. Depression? Annihilated by the winds of God’s spoken word.
Turkey watched her capital burn, and there was nothing the people could do.
Edom’s enemies cringed to imagine the power she wielded.
We have God. He destroys everything that is set against us, and we will find our victory in his name.
Our cry in the time of trouble isn’t, “Oh, my,” but rather, “Oh, my God, I need you now.”
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