Mindful of the Rock of Your Stronghold

We have before us a testimony of how one part of the church became pagan. Isaiah 17 shows that it happens, how it happens, what happens as a result, how to avoid it. When this happens, it is very destructive, because, the pagan part wages war against the more holy part. How does it happen? Alliances: Whom you are allied with you will become like. In this chapter Israel and Damascus are treated almost as one and the same. It is a picture of how the people of God identify with those who can give them what they crave, and yet, how many blessings flow when we look to our Maker and are been mindful of the Rock of our stronghold."