Isa 14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

Isaiah 14 begins with God’s assurance He still loves Israel in spite delivering them into captivity. God promises He will bring them back to their homeland (v.1-3). In that day, Israel can laugh at their oppressor, the mighty Babylon, when they fall from grace and meet their destruction (v.4-23). Not only Babylon, but Assyria (v.24-27) and their arch enemy Philistia (v.28-32) will fall too. God has ordained and those kingdoms shall fall just as He has said: “The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand” (v.24). Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand - This is an unchangeable truth: What God has purposed shall come to pass. God purposed that Assyria, Babylon, and Philistia will fall and they did. God is sovereign over all the earth and His purpose will triumph in spite of arrogant human schemes and systems to prevent it. God’s plans and purposes will always prevail; no man can change what He has purposed to do. We see in the Old Testament how the devil had tried so many times to thwart God’s plan of sending seed of the woman into the world (Genesis 3:15). First, he caused a big famine in hope to starve the family of Jacob to death (Genesis 42). It didn’t work for God sent Joseph to Egypt beforehand to control the famine situation. So, the family of Jacob settled in Egypt. Then, another Pharaoh decided to do the devil’s work and kill all the male children of Israel (Exodus 1:16). God preserved Moses and sent him into Pharaoh’s palace to be reared as a son of Pharaoh’s daughter. What an irony; Moses living right under the nose of the Pharaoh who wanted to kill him. The seed of the woman was saved. A few hundred years later, Haman did the devil’s work and decided to exterminate the entire Jewish race (Esther 3). God was one step ahead and had a Jewish girl named Esther sitting as Queen of Persia. Haman’s attempt failed and he died. The seed of the woman was saved. Another few hundred years later, when the seed of the woman finally came into the world, Herod searched for Him to kill Him. God hid Him in Egypt (Matthew 2:16). The seed of the woman was saved while Herod died. God’s plans and purposes will always prevail; no man can change what He has purposed to do. Don’t look at the present only; trust in God that He will deliver what He has promised. Four hundred years of slavery in Egypt would seem like eternity and hopelessness; it looked like God had rejected them and cast them off totally. But, by delivering them from thence, first in Egypt and then in Babylon, He showed that He loved them and had not forgotten the covenant He had made with their forefather Abraham: “Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old” (Micah 7:20). The seed of the woman in prophecy is none other than Christ our Lord (Galatians 4:4). He came and set up His kingdom, which is the church (Matthew 16:18, 19). The saved are in His kingdom, the church (Revelation 1:9; Acts 2:47). But premillennialists say that God’s plan failed when the Jews rejected Christ and so He activated a Plan B which is the church. Premillennialists worship an inferior god whose plans can be disrupted by men. But, for us, our God is omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (all-knowing). What our God has planned and purposed will always prevail; no man can change what He has purposed to do. Have faith in God.