ISAIAH 34
ISAIAH 34 OPENS WITH...The Indignation of the Lord against All Nations & its peoples.
Verses 1-4 tells us GOD PROPHESIES THE NEAR & FAR (GREAT TRIBULATION) fury and the completeness of the judgment of the LORD.
"Come near, you nations, to hear; and heed, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all things that come forth from it. For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations, and His fury against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to the slaughter. Also their slain shall be thrown out; their stench shall rise from their corpses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; all their host shall fall down as the leaf falls from the vine, and as fruit falling from a fig tree."
The indignation of the LORD: In the immediate context (NEAR PROPHESY FULFILLMENT), Isaiah continues the thought of the coming judgment against the Assyrians. But in the larger context (THE FAR PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT), we can see this passage as an announcement of the judgment of come upon the nations of the REJECTING WORLD during the Great Tribulation.
THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN SHALL BE DISSOLVED...
THIS NOT ONLY REFERS TO CHANGES IN THE SKY...EXPLODING STARS, BLOOD MOONS, SOLAR ECLIPSES...
ALSO THE HOSTS THAT SHALL FALL DOWN AS THE LEAF FALLS FROM A VINE...REFERS TO SATAN AND HIS DEMONS....RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE ACCESS TO ALMIGHTY GOD....BUT AFTER THE SCROLL IS ROLLED UP (WHICH REFERS TO HIS PRECIOUS FAMILY, GOD'S CHILDREN, WHO ARE THOSE WHO KNOW, ACCEPT, AND CALL JESUS CHRIST, LORD SAVIOR AND FRIEND, WHO ONCE WE ARE SNATCHED AWAY AND TAKEN TO HEAVEN BY JESUS, ALMIGHTY GOD WILL NOT ALLOW SATAN NOR HIS DEMONS ACCESS TO HIM OR TO US.
ALMIGHTY GOD WILL KEEP THEM ON AND UNDER THIS EARTH, SO THAT THEY TOO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ESCAPE HIS FULL WRATH EITHER.
Jesus, and many Old Testament prophets, plainly told us of a coming time He called great tribulation in MATTHEW 24:21, when because of the judgment of God, conditions on earth would be the VERY WORST human history had ever seen SINCE THE BEGINNINGS OF MANKIND.
AND REMEMBER TOO...Revelation chapters 6, 8-9, and 16-18 describe this HORRIFIC GLOBAL time, when there will be WORLDWIDE widespread ecological, economic, cosmic, and human catastrophe on a level never before known in history.
No wonder AFTER ALMIGHTY SHOWS HIM AND TELLS HIM...Isaiah pleads with the nations: Come near, you nations, to hear; and heed, you people! In light of how terrible the great tribulation will be, when we consider how prophecy has been fulfilled, and how the stage is set for even more fulfilled prophecy, we should hear and take heed!
THIS VERY DAY, The stage is set for a REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FIRST 3.5 YEARS OF THE TRIBULATION. IT IS NECESSARY, BECAUSE OUR LORD GOD DOES NOT LIE, SO THE temple that will come in the last days, necessary to fulfill the prophecies of the abomination of desolation TOLD TO US IN Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
THIS VERY DAY, The stage is set for the sort of WORLD DOMINATING CONFEDERATION OF NATIONS, heir to the Roman Empire to arise as PROPHESIED TO US IN Daniel 2:36-45; Revelation 13:1-8; 17:10-14).
THIS VERY DAY, The stage is set for a POLITICAL & ECONOMIC SUPERMAN to arise, the sort of single political leader who will lead this world-dominating confederation of nations prophesied to us in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12; Revelation 13:4-7.
THIS VERY DAY, The stage is set for the kind of GLOBAL FALSE RELIGION, (THE WORLD NOW CALLS IT AN ECUMENICAL CHURCH/ A UNIVERSAL CHURCH) the Bible says THIS FALSE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION will characterize the very last days prophesied to us in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 9-12; Revelation 13:11-15; 17:1-6.
THIS VERY DAY, The stage is set for the kind of GLOBAL ECONOMIC/MONETARY SYSTEM; predicted for the very last days prophesied to us in Revelation 13:15-17).
THIS VERY DAY, The stage is set for the END-TIMES SCENARIO the Bible says will happen between Russia and Israel prophesied to us in Ezekiel 38-39.
MAKE NO MISTAKE HERE, AS SOME WILLINGLY AND BLINDLY CHOOSE TO DO...The warning & PROPHESY GOD DIRECTLY GAVE AND SHOWED ISAIAH regarding this time of the indignation of the LORD is directed NOT to God's people, but to the REJECTING nations & world.
WHY?
This is because God's people, those who love Jesus Christ, & call HIM LORD SAVIOR REDEEMER & FRIEND, will escape the terrors of the great tribulation, though they may experience great hardship in the time leading up to it.
REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAYS...HE said we should pray that we would be counted worthy to escape that time of terrors TOLD TO US IN Luke 21:36, and be taken to heaven in the great catching away of the church TOLD TO US IN 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.
THERE ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE CHRISTIANS WHO LOVES JESUS CHRIST AND CALL HIM LORD SAVIOR AND FRIEND WILL GO THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
SOME BELIEVE CHRISTIANS WILL BE TAKEN FROM THE EARTH AT THE MID POINT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
SOME BELIEVE CHRISTIANS (THE BODY OF CHRIST/THE CHURCH) WILL BE AS WITNESSES DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
I AM NOT TRUSTING OR BELIEVING WHAT ANY MAN THINKS, NOR HOW HE CHOOSES TO INTERPRET OR DISMISS JESUS AND ALMIGHTY GOD...I AM TRUSTING AND BELIEVING JESUS.
THOSE WHO CALL JESUS CHRIST, LORD, SAVIOR AND FRIEND DO NOT STAY ON THIS EARTH AND FACE THE WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD POURED OUT ON THE REJECTING WORLD, SATAN & HIS DEMONS, AND MANKIND.
Verses 5-7 tells us of The great bloodshed at the judgment of the LORD.
"For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; indeed it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment. The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made overflowing with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. The wild oxen shall come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust saturated with fatness."
MY SWORD IN HEAVEN....FILLED WITH BLOOD...
ALMIGHTY GOD TELLS US IN REVELATION...THAT NOT ONLY DOES HE KEEP, SAVE, EVERY TEAR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM HAVE EVER SHED, THAT EVERY HEART CRY UTTERED IS NOT SAVED IN GOLDEN BOWLS, BUT THAT EVERY SINGLE DROP OF HIS CHILDREN'S BLOOD SHED ON THIS EARTH HAS BEEN SAVED AND ALL OF IT WILL BE MIXED WITH HIS WRATH AND POURED OUT ON THE REJECTING WORLD WHO REJECTED HIM & HIS PRECIOUS SON, BUT ALSO HURT, SHAMED, TORTURED, AND KILLED HIS CHILDREN....JESUS FAMILY.
NEVER EVER DOUBT THAT ALMIGHTY GOD DOES NOT LOVE YOU...FIERCELY. HE IS PATIENT, HE IS LONG-SUFFERING, BUT THOSE WHO REJECT AND HARM HIS FAMILY WILL PAID WITH THE PAIN, SORROW, TEARS, AND BLOOD SHED BY US AS WELL.
Indeed it shall come down on Edom...
WHO WERE THE EDOMITES & WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
The Edomites were near neighbors to Israel, and often bitter rivals. The Edomites rejoiced whenever the people of Judah or Israel were afflicted, so Isaiah focuses on the judgment that will come against Edom, using them as a single example of the large judgment that will come upon ALL the nations (as in Isaiah 34:1-2).
BULTEMA, A GREAT CHRISTIAN HISTORIAN says, "Edom was a sister nation to Israel, but it hated Israel more than any other nation. Throughout all of history we see a burning hatred of Edom against Israel. It is for this reason that Edom is frequently presented as a representative of all the nations that hated the Jews."
WOLF ANOTHER CHRISTIAN HISTORIAN says, "Edom had derided and attacked Judah for centuries, but now God would avenge this hateful attitude that is so characteristic of the world's ways."
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood … their land shall be soaked with blood...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
RIGHT HERE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, ALMIGHTY GOD SHOWS AND TELLS ISAIAH that the indignation of the LORD finds its FINAL fulfillment in the battle of Armageddon, which will be a terribly bloody affair told to us in Revelation 14:20.
Overflowing with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for the LORD has a great sacrifice … and a great slaughter...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
In associating this time of judgment with the image of sacrifice, Isaiah tells us that this is payment for the penalty of sin. Even as a sacrificial victim paid for the sin of the one bringing the sacrifice, so the bloody judgment of sin at Armageddon will be a payment for the penalty of sin. It will be an imperfect, incomplete payment, but it will be a payment of some kind.
WOLF also tells us, "THROUGHOUT the Bible, the mention of sacrificial animals is primarily intended to refer to the slaughter of people."
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH...
DID YOU KNOW...The King James Version translates wild oxen as unicorns?
THE BIBLE DOES NOT MEAN UNICORN, AS GREEK MYTHOLOGY CREATED IT TO MEAN AND BE A ONE HORNED FLYING HORSE.
Bultema writes, "There used to be quite a difference of opinion regarding the word unicorns, but today the general opinion is that it does not mean rhinoceros but aurochs, or wild bison. According to Deuteronomy 33:17, this animal did not have one but two horns."
MOTYER also gives us another bit of history & terminology of the day..."Wild oxen were not used in the sacrifices. Possibly therefore Isaiah is using animal metaphors for the important people and leaders of Edom."
Verses 8-10 tells us GOD POURS HIS INDIGNATION OUT UPON the land.
"For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of recompense for the cause of Zion. Its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; its land shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and ever."
Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
In this day of the Lord's vengeance known as the great tribulation, there will be unparalleled ecological disaster. Before Jesus Christ returns at the end of the great tribulation, one-third of the earth's vegetation, one-third of the oceans, and one-third of fresh waters will be destroyed and unusable ALSO CONFIRMED TO US IN Revelation 8 and 16.
Verses 11-15 God tells ISAIAH that also the land is inhabited only by animals of the wilderness.
"But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses; it shall be a habitation of jackals, a courtyard for ostriches. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; also the night creature shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs and hatch, and gather them under her shadow; there also shall the hawks be gathered, every one with her mate."
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Much of the earth will be so destroyed that in many places, only wild animals will be able to live there.
AND ODDLY AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH...The King James Version translates wild goat as satyr, which was a mythical demonic creature.
BUT THE HEBREW WORD USED HERE IS sair, which IS AN ADJECTIVE which means hairy told to us in Genesis 27:11 and as A NOUN refers to a male goat told to us in Genesis 37:31 and Leviticus 4:23.
It is possible that Isaiah means that wild goats will inhabit the desolate regions of Edom, or he may mean that it will be the haunt of demonic spirits. Bultema thinks the best translation "is demons, or field devils."
REMEMBER the Hebrew word for night creature is lilith, which is the feminine form of the word "night."
AND Old Jewish superstitions brought into the HEBREW RELIGIOUS CULT FROM THE PAGAN WORLD make Lilith a beautiful demon of the night, who seduced men and killed children.
MOST BIBLE HEBREW CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS agree that Isaiah uses the term to describe the demonic habitation of Edom after God's judgment.
IN OTHER WORDS, AFTER THE JUDGMENT OF GOD UPON THE REJECTING NATIONS, THE PEOPLE, & THE EARTH...that the land will ONLY BE FIT FOR AND HABITABLE FOR WILD BEASTS AND DEMONS.
Verses 16-17 tell us of THE ABSOLUTE SURETY of the judgments of the LORD.
"Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them. He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it."
Search from the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these shall fail.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
This remarkable statement tells us that Isaiah understood that his words were the words of the LORD. It also tells us that Isaiah meant that his prophecy should be understood literally - poetically, but literally. It also means that Isaiah clearly challenged doubters to "look it up" once the prophecy was fulfilled.
IT TELLS US SOMETHING ELSE TOO, GOD GAVE ISAIAH A NEAR AND FAR VISION/PROPHECY OF THIS....JUST AS IN HIS DAY, THE RABBI PRIESTS FORGOT THE WORDS OF GOD, THEY DID NOT TELL THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH, AND WHEN ISAIAH CAME ALONG REPEATING THE WORDS OF GOD HANDED DOWN, NO ONE KNEW THEM, OR CARED ABOUT THEM....THEY SNEERED, JEERED, AND REJECTED ALL ISAIAH TOLD THEM....JUST AS GOD HAD WARNED IN ISAIAH 1, AMEN?
NOW GOD SHOWS ISAIAH THE FAR FULFILLMENT, (THE GREAT TRIBULATION) AND THAT THE WORLD WILL ONCE AGAIN REJECT, SNEER, PERSECUTE, AND SEEK TO DESTROY THE WORDS AND WARNINGS OF ALMIGHTY GOD...AS FAR AS THE REJECTING WORLD IS CONCERNED....JESUS WAS AT BEST A NICE CARPENTER TEACHER, BUT THE HOLY BIBLE, ALMIGHTY GOD, HEAVEN, HELL, ARE FAIRY TALES...THEY DO NOT EXIST.
SO ISAIAH IS SPEAKING TO THE PEOPLE THEN AND NOW...LOOK IT UP...GO THROUGH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND GIVEN US BY ALMIGHTY GOD...EVERYTHING ALMIGHTY GOD SAID WOULD HAPPEN HAS HAPPENED EXACTLY AS HE WARNED IT WOULD....DOUBTERS STOP DOUBTING....LOOK IT UP!
Search from the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these shall fail...
This time of great tribulation is certainly coming upon the earth. This is beyond all doubt; our part isn't to bring it or to prevent it, but simply to be ready, and to pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man told to us in Luke 21:36.
ALMIGHTY GOD HERE, JUST AS JESUS TAUGHT DURING HIS WALK UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH...
WE, THAT IS, THOSE WHO CALL OURSELVES JESUS CHRIST LOVING, BELIEVING, TRUSTING, SAVED AND REDEEMED BY JESUS GRACE, LOVE, MERCY, AND PERFECT BLOOD SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS FOR ALL OF MANKIND'S SIN DEBT...CAN NOT SAVE ...ANYONE.
WE CAN INTRODUCE THEM TO OUR JESUS...WE CAN SHARE OUR JESUS WITH THEM...BUT SALVATION CAN ONLY COME THROUGH ONE ON ONE WITH JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.
YOU CAN READ, STUDY, & QUOTE THE BIBLE...AND SPEND ETERNITY IN THE LAKE OF FIRE.
YOU CAN ATTEND A CHURCH FROM THE CRADLE, BE A MEMBER, A DUE DILIGENT PARTICIPANT AND SPEND ETERNITY IN THE LAKE OF FIRE.
YOU CAN BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD, EVEN THAT THERE IS A CREATOR GOD, EVEN BELIEVE THAT CREATOR GOD IS CALLED THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, & JACOB. YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT CREATOR GOD IS THE GREAT I AM...BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU.
ALMIGHTY GOD SAYS IF YOU BELIEVE IN ME, BUT REJECT MY SON, JESUS CHRIST, I DO NOT KNOW YOU.
ALMIGHTY GOD SAYS THREE TIMES THAT HE PLACED ALL THINGS INTO HIS SON'S HANDS.
SALVATION CAN ONLY COME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. ONLY JESUS CHRIST CAN SAVE...JESUS CHRIST ALONE.
SO WE WHO LOVE JESUS CHRIST, HAVE A MISSION ON THIS EARTH...WE ARE TO BE SALT AND LIGHT....TO THE DEAD HEARTED, THE BLIND HEARTED, AND THOSE WHO ARE WALKING IN DARKNESS...WHILE WE CAN, FOR AS JESUS SAID...THE DAY WILL COME WHEN NONE CAN LABOR...
THAT DAY WILL BE THE DAY, THE EASTERN SKIES SPLIT, AND JESUS APPEARS IN THE CLOUDS IN THE EASTERN SKIES, AND IN A BLINK, NO ACTUALLY QUICKER THAN A BLINK...IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE, HE WILL SNATCH US UP TO MEET HIM IN THE CLOUDS, TAKE HIS CHILDREN, HIS FAMILY, THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, TO THE SAFETY OF HEAVEN, TO BE SEALED AWAY, JUST AS NOAH WAS, FROM THE COMING WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD.
ISAIAH KNEW, AS DO WE WHO LOVE JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE WILL EITHER BE A WITNESS FOR THE SALVATION OF OTHERS, OR WE WILL BE A WITNESS AGAINST THEM.
WE DO NOT NEED TO KEEP SCORE...WHO BELIEVED US AND WHO REJECTED OUR OFFER OF AN INTRODUCTION TO JESUS....JESUS CHRIST KEEPS EXCELLENT RECORDS.
WE ARE TO PRAY FOR THE LOST, THE BLIND, THE ARROGANT, THE DECEIVED, AND THE FALSE TEACHERS AS WELL....WE ARE TO HAVE JESUS HEART FOR THE LOST.
AND IN THESE LAST DAYS, WE SHOULD TAKE THE GLOVES OFF, WE SHOULD PRAY FERVENTLY, JUST AS ISAIAH AND ALL OTHERS DID....DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO LORD JESUS TO SAVE THIS PERSON. WE HAVE YOUR HEART...WE WANT NONE TO PERISH. WE WANT NONE TO BE LEFT ON THIS EARTH TO FACE THE WRATH OF GOD, BUT FOR SATAN AND HIS DEMONS.
AS I SHOCK SOME, WHEN THEY TELL ME OF FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND LOVED ONES WHO REJECT THE GENTLE KIND, COMPASSIONATE JESUS AND HIS FREE GIFT OFFER OF SALVATION....TAKE THE GLOVES OFF.
START PRAYING LORD JESUS DO WHATEVER IT TAKES...I WOULD FAR RATHER THEY LIMP INTO HEAVEN, THAN DANCE INTO THE WAITING PRISON OF HELL, AMEN?
ISAIAH TELLS US GOD SAYS TO TELL THEM...LOOK IT UP! CHECK ME OUT...GO BACK THROUGH MY WORD, GO BACK THROUGH SECULAR HISTORY...DO THE MATH...YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT I NEVER LIE. WHAT I SAY I WILL DO...I DO.
WITH THE ENTIRE WORLD DEVOLVING BEFORE OUR EYES, WE CAN KNOW THAT JESUS COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT..TOMORROW IS PROMISED TO NONE.
CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHILE YOU MAY.
ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST, THE GENTLE LAMB NOW, OR REJECT, DELAY, AND FACE THE LION OF JUDAH.