Today Our Daily Bread Isaiah 14

Matthew 24:37 "When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah's day. There were influences that pulled at the original purpose of the earth and its inhabitants. The influences were great in number and stature and had to be overcome- personally annihilated in order for the purpose of God to thrive, and so it also is now in our day.
Luke 12:25 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not Can worrying about the number of influences or the size of them change their influence on us? Can it help anyone else with what overwhelmes and overcomes them? Only the peace of and trust and reliance upon God can bring defeat to the influences of the world and its continual pull and sway for evil.
Isaiah 14: 1 - 32
1 But the LORD will have mercy on the descendants of Jacob. Israel will be his special people once again. He will bring them back to settle once again in their own land. And people from many different nations will come and join them there and become a part of the people of Israel. 2 The nations of the world will help the LORD's people to return, and those who come to live in their land will serve them. Those who captured Israel will be captured, and Israel will rule over its enemies. 3 In that wonderful day when the LORD gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from slavery and chains,
4 you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, "The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended. 5 For the LORD has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule. 6 You persecuted the people with unceasing blows of rage and held the nations in your angry grip. Your tyranny was unrestrained.
7 But at last the land is at rest and is quiet. Finally it can sing again! 8 Even the trees of the forest – the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon – sing out this joyous song: 'Your power is broken! No one will come to cut us down now!' 9 "In the place of the dead there is excitement over your arrival. World leaders and mighty kings long dead are there to see you. 10 With one voice they all cry out, 'Now you are as weak as we are! 11 Your might and power are gone; they were buried with you. All the pleasant music in your palace has ceased. Now maggots are your sheet and worms your blanket.' 12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. 13 For you said to yourself, 'I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God's stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. 14 I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.' 15 But instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths. 16 Everyone there will stare at you and ask, 'Can this be the one who shook the earth and the kingdoms of the world? 17 Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wilderness? Is this the king who demolished the world's greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?' 18 "The kings of the nations lie in stately glory in their tombs, 19 but you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will be dumped into a mass grave with those killed in battle. You will descend to the pit. 20 You will not be given a proper burial, for you have destroyed your nation and slaughtered your people. Your son will not succeed you as king. 21 Kill the children of this sinner! Do not let them rise and conquer the land or rebuild the cities of the world." 22 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "I, myself, have risen against him! I will destroy his children and his children's children, so they will never sit on his throne. 23 I will make Babylon into a desolate land, a place of porcupines, filled with swamps and marshes. I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!"
24 The LORD Almighty has sworn this oath: "It will all happen as I have planned. It will come about according to my purposes. 25 I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel; I will trample them on my mountains. My people will no longer be their slaves. 26 I have a plan for the whole earth, for my mighty power reaches throughout the world. 27 The LORD Almighty has spoken – who can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him?" 28 This message came to me the year King Ahaz died: 29 Do not rejoice, you Philistines, that the king who attacked you is dead. For even though that whip is broken, his son will be worse than his father ever was. From that snake a poisonous snake will be born, a fiery serpent to destroy you! 30 I will feed the poor in my pasture; the needy will lie down in peace. But as for you, I will wipe you out with famine. I will destroy the few who remain. 31 Weep, you Philistine cities, for you are doomed! Melt in fear, for everyone will be destroyed. A powerful army is coming out of the north. Each soldier rushes forward ready to fight. 32 What should we tell the enemy messengers? Tell them that the LORD has built Jerusalem, and that the poor of his people will find refuge in its walls.
~Lena’s Journalin’~
Descendants of "Jacob", what does that mean? It means life was given and life was taken and perverted and lived in a manner that wars against God. Men were created to compliment and serve with God, yet a sway of evil and of deception led us to cross over to another side, serving another master, masked as ourselves, but in truth, in serving self we’ve served God’s supreme enemy. There’s been a reproduction of another kind, the rebellious against God kind, and God’s chosen people have crossed over through deception and lies. But our Father God is all about restoration of truth, restoration to the right (side). Jacob must become Israel, every last one. God’s enemy is angry, angry against God, he’s assembled an army against God and wants us to join. But do not be deceived, in the "end" God wins, so if we are on any other side, it’s not the right side. The heart of God is oneness and peace, the "heart" of satan is disagreement and war. Jacob or Israel? Where do we find ourselves, in our homes, in our churches, in our jobs, in the world, in the marketplace? At war or at peace? Who wins? Deception or truth? You or Him? Pride or humility? Pride IS the original "sin". Aspiration to be "right", to know all, to ascend, to win. God’s character houses these things, but they are not motivated by self and by pride. God is proud, sets goals, is right, knows all and wins, but the motivation is love. Jacob was the same person as Israel, yet the motivation was changed, the inner person was renewed by the presence of God. Israel must arise in the earth coming against the Jacob nature in the earth. It begins with me. I’ve got to see where this all started and take my self away from that which wars against God in the earth. I’ve got to refuse serving with satan’s force, if I see I can join forces with God to win the earth back to Him. Rising opposes falling. Let God arise (in me) and let all of His enemies be scattered (away from having any influence on me)