We continue with the pasuk from Yeshaya
בִּטְחוּ בַה׳ עֲדֵי־עַד
Rely on Hashem forever,
כִּי בְּיָ-הּ ה׳ צוּר עוֹלָמִים
Because God is the Creator/Rock of the worlds
In his sefer Shemirat HaLashon ( unit 1, Shaar Hetevuna chapter 10) the Chafetz Chaim quotes this pasuk, and introduces it with the following,
“If a person is understanding, and pays attention, he should be embarrassed that he does not have bitachon in Hashem.” He explains that this pasuk says to rely on Hashem עדי עד /forever, because even in our times,with Hester Panim,when God is hiding Himself, and His control is not revealed, as He was at the time of the Bet HaMikdash, and therefore there is room for heretics and rebels, even so, we should still rely on Hashem.
He then gives the following mashal:
There was a king who ruled over hundreds of countries, and controlled his kingdom in splendor and glory. He had enough food to take care of everybody. He was a beautiful king. But there was a group of individuals from small city who decided, in their arrogance, to rebel against the king. They got caught, but as the king’s men were deciding what to do with these rebels, the king was not present. He had taken a walk, as he did every morning, in his gardens. On his walk, the king heard a beautiful bird chirping, and told one of his servants to catch the bird and put it in a cage in his palace, so that he would be able to enjoy the beautiful chirping. So the servant did what the king had asked, and brought the caged bird in.
A foolish man then started talking to the bird saying, “What A wonderful bird you are. I am really looking forward to hearing your beautiful song, but it pains me when I realize the sorrow that you are going to go through. Who will feed you? Right now there is a rebellion going on against the king.“
A wise servant overheard this and said, “Fool that you are! Our king rules over hundreds of countries! He has endless treasure houses. He wants and loves this bird. Do you think that he would not give it a few kernels of wheat, because in some small city there are a few rebels?”
The nimshal of this story, says the Chafetz Chaim, is kal v’homer a million times, Hashem created this physical world, and he created the upper worlds which have worlds upon worlds, that we can’t even fathom. There is a world of angels, and worlds above that called Beriah and Atzilut, and all of these were created for God’s honor. Hashem has millions and millions of servants and He is taking care of all of them. Rabbenu Bachye says that God feeds the angels with angelic spiritual food, and down here, in the physical world, He feeds us with physical food. Our world is like a mustard seed compared to the upper worlds. We can’t possibly fathom this. Even just in the physical sense, the Milky Way and the endless galaxies are too much for us to comprehend.
And Hashem says about the Jewish people, “You are my children. I love your voice (as it says in Shir HaShirim, I want to hear your voice”) Do you think that just because of a few small rebels in this world, compared to the thousands and millions worlds of loyal servants and angels, do you think that the Jewish people can’t be taken care of? Because of a few rebels?“
That is what our pasuk means. Even if Yerushalayim was destroyed and we are in exile, and there are rebels out there,
בִּטְחוּ בַה׳ עֲדֵי־עַד
Continue to rely on God, because God‘s ability has not changed. His ability is there, just like it was back then. God did not change. The world continues, and God is still pumping energy into the world. He gives strength and life to everything.
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הּ ה׳ צוּר עוֹלָמִים כִּי בְּיָ Because God is the Creator/Rock of the worlds.
The two letters, yud and heh, made everything.
With all of that, he says, without Hashem constantly pumping energy, the world would turn into nothing. Therefore, he says, it is quite obvious that man, logically, should never think that the big king can’t take care of his little bird, and that is you.
Have a wonderful day