15 – Trusting in the Lord

This chapter contains the assurance from the Lord of the preservation of the Davidic line unto the appearance of the Messiah the Lord Jesus. The chapter begins identifying the rulers who were conspiring against each other as the Lord led them. Ahaz was the king in the southern kingdom of Judah, Pekah the king in the northern ten tribes of Israel and Rezin the king of adjacent Syria.
Solomon the last of the kings in the United Monarchy was told by God that he would lose the kingdom because of his idolatry by following other gods. After the civil war following Solomon's death in 931 B.C. his son Rehoboam assumed the throne. He did not follow in his father's manner of ruling. After a time had passed the southern kingdom of Judah had an evil king named Ahaz. Ahaz is characterized in the Bible as an evil man who participated in the most monstrous of idolatrous practices. Pekah was the king in the northern kingdom and was equally wicked. Rezin was the king of Syria during the reigns of Pekah in Israel and Ahaz in Judah.Because Ahaz had plunged the southern kingdom into a spiritual low by the introduction of idolatry (II Chronicles 27:5–6) God influenced Rezin and Pekah to attack Judah.

When God said," If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established," He was essentially saying if you don't believe me it is because you don't trust Me.