He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
The verse belongs to Isaiah 41-45, where God very fully reveals His purpose for His people, and those chapters are to be studied prayerfully. It pictures the righteous man from the east pursuing his opponents and passing safely along a way his feet had never gone before. His success and safe passage show the nations had been given into his power and that God was directing events. Its meaning is to look to God's wisdom and not to turn away from Him to seek wisdom from finite human beings.
The Lord alone is to be trusted, not man, and flesh is not to be made one's arm or support. It is a declaration from the Lord full of promise, assurance, and encouragement for the latter days, given to comfort the sincere, humble, righteous followers of Christ. That comfort is for the time when God's afflicting providence comes upon the world in judgments near the close of earth's history, with earthquakes and storms on land and sea and heavy calamities by sea and by rail. Those who in these latter days fulfill what is written place themselves where the Lord will surely do all He has promised, and they are to take every encouragement and not be discouraged even while Lucifer wars against God and deceives many. The verse calls for diligent and most earnest work for repentance, warns that the Lord will not be trifled with, and promises strength to His own people.
The verse belongs to Isaiah 41-45, where God very fully reveals His purpose for His people, and those chapters are to be studied prayerfully. It pictures the righteous man from the east pursuing his opponents and passing safely along a way his feet had never gone before. His success and safe passage show the nations had been given into his power and that God was directing events. Its meaning is to look to God's wisdom and not to turn away from Him to seek wisdom from finite human beings.
The Lord alone is to be trusted, not man, and flesh is not to be made one's arm or support. It is a declaration from the Lord full of promise, assurance, and encouragement for the latter days, given to comfort the sincere, humble, righteous followers of Christ. That comfort is for the time when God's afflicting providence comes upon the world in judgments near the close of earth's history, with earthquakes and storms on land and sea and heavy calamities by sea and by rail. Those who in these latter days fulfill what is written place themselves where the Lord will surely do all He has promised, and they are to take every encouragement and not be discouraged even while Lucifer wars against God and deceives many. The verse calls for diligent and most earnest work for repentance, warns that the Lord will not be trifled with, and promises strength to His own people.