Teaching Confidence

God takes His people and says, I know how you feel. Yet they are brought to have confidence in the Lord. So He takes a few of His own and the Lord Jesus comes back to His own and reveals Himself to them secretly and says, I'm going to be with you now. You're going to be My people and I'm going to be with you; yet, you have to learn some things first.
So He again brings onto the stage, as it were, the Assyrian and says, This is the rod of My anger. This is the one that I used to chastise you before and I'm still going to use him. He brings him back on the scene, for they must feel the hand of the chastisement of the Lord.