Turn Back The Battle: Isaiah Speaks to Christians Today

How are Christians to respond to suffering and persecution in a climate of growing geopolitical insecurity? In the latter part of the 8th century BC when Judah was twice invadedand under existential threat God commissioned a lone prophetic voice tospeak his words into a politically charged military crisis. In Isaiah1-39 God has provided spiritual resources and a historic precedent tohelp us respond rightly when under siege. In these days as Christians world-wide faceescalating persecution and existential threat it is time to hear the message of Isaiah. Elizabeth Kendal is a leading religious freedom analyst and prayeradvocate on behalf of the persecuted church. Turn Back the Battledraws on herlong familiarity with global trends in religious persecution. It hasbeen forged out of a passionate interest in how Christians respond topersecution and all forms of suffering.