Do We Really Have Rights (Part 2)?

Fast-forward 600+ years from the time of Moses.  Isaiah was ministering in the court of Ahaz, king of the Southern Kingdom of Judah.  Ahaz was a bit of a twit and was concerned about a threatened invasion by northern Israel.  Isaiah told Ahaz not to worry, that Assyria would soon knock Israel out of the picture.  Why?  Because Israel had violated the terms of the Mosaic covenant (see here): “Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees,” wrote Isaiah, “and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!” (Isaiah 10:1-2, emphasis added)

Judicial injustice ==> divine judgment

Judicial injustice presupposes [official] wrongs

[Official] wrongs presuppose [private] rights

QED