May 23 2008
MBS – Book of Isaiah – More Destruction
- God’s judgments was prophesied for the surrounding nation of Judah.
- Isaiah first prophesied on Babylon.
- God was coming to destroy Babylon is at hand.
- It was figuratively described as complete darkness, the earth shakes, and many will perish.
- The Medes would stir up against Babylon.
- The city of Babylon would end up like Soddom and Gomorrah: destroyed.
- The house of Jacob would resettle Israel again.
- Songs (Proverbs) would be sung to signal the end of Israel’s oppression by the Babylonians.
- The fall of Lucifer, king of Babylon, judged by God and his children slaughtered.
- Next, God would destroy Assyria.
- Judgment would come to Philistia (Philistine).
- In the midst of all this destruction, God provided refuge for His people in Zion.
