In Isaiah, chapter thirty-six, verse twenty, “Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?” Rabshaketh mockingly suggested that the God of Judah was not powerful enough to deliver Jerusalem from His army. He implied that it would take a miracle and that this was no time to expect such a thing. Satan still uses such tactics on God’s children; he tells them that when they are in great need, they should not expect or seek a miracle from God.
Note, however, that God did work a miracle for Judah and defeated Rabshaketh, as in chapter thirty-seven, verses thirty-six through thirty-eight. “Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch, his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.”
As for Rabshaketh, the response towards his statement in the following verse twenty-one, “But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.” Hezekiah did not take matters into his own hands and advised those around him not to say anything to Rabshaketh. Believers today who face people like Rabshaketh should remember the battle is not ours but the Lord’s. As we look to God in such tense situations, He will do what is best.