Sennacherib's attack upon Judah is recorded for our guidance and instruction. Such a portion of God's Word has been preserved for our perusal and study that we might learn how to live in the midst of our trying circumstances.

This message is a scriptural analysis of the political situation in Northern Ireland in face of the ongoing ecumenical and terrorist assault upon Protestantism.

King Hezekiah sought salvation for Judah in prayer before the blood of reconciliation between the cherubim, which is where all God's people must always turn for rescue, to the saving blood of the Lord Jesus.

Sennacherib's propagandists, much like today, urged the people not to listen to their leaders in their opposition to invasion and destruction, but rather to lay down their arms and surrender. To trust in God for rescue, they urged the people, was of no use.

Likewise today, the people of Ulster are being pressured, by Margaret Thatcher herself, to betray their Protestant heritage, cease their resistance against terrorists, and surrender themselves into malignant hands. The propaganda and the threats she is using remind us of the rhetoric of Sennacherib of old.

Mrs. Thatcher is urging all this upon our little province, but one day, she will be broken by God for what she is trying to force down upon us.

Soon, Sennacherib was overcome and returned home in shame.

So too, one day God will shame Margaret Thatcher for what she has done. She will be undone by her own people in her own city.

Note: It was but five years later that Mrs. Thatcher was overthrown and driven out of the Prime Ministership, in which she had seemed so invincible when this sermon was preached. She was ousted by her own party members and former allies.

We would ask you to listen particularly to what was said from the 49th minute of the message onward.