Isaiah 20
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This prophecy is an “acted prophecy”: here Isaiah not only spoke on God’s behalf, but he also acted out what he spoke; in this case he acted the part of a humiliated Egyptian or Cushite warrior. Just as Isaiah was stripped naked94 (except for a loincloth), so the warriors of Egypt and Cush would be stripped naked by the Assyrians. Isaiah’s message to the people of Judah was this: do not trust the Egyptians and Cushites to protect you from the Assyrians; trust only in God.
Isaiah must have felt foolish walking around almost naked for three years, yet he did what God told him to do. One day God might call upon us to do something that appears “foolish” in men’s eyes. Will we, like Isaiah, be willing to obey?