Definitions: Day of the Lord-is the period of history mentioned repeatedly in the OT during which God will bring judgment and blessing on the people of the earth in a more direct, dramatic, and drastic way then ever before. (Isa 13:6). From the NT it will begin after the Rapture of the Church and will include the Tribulation and Mill.
[i]Latter Days-is the Mill
Chapter 1: Isaiah's prophecies focus on Judah and Jerusalem's Northern Kingdom felled to captivity by Assyrians and Southern Kingdom felled to Babylon captivity. We see Israel had forsaken God to worship their idols so as judgment God allow N and S kingdoms to fall into captivity. We see in verse 9 of 1 that God left a very small remnant. A picture to us God always saves a small remnant that He will in the Rapture of the Church in the Church Age.
Chapter 2: What happens in Mill (latter days).
Chapter 3: Captivity that happen by the Babylonians and yet represents future events through Tribulation
Chapter 4: Believing remnant in the Mill
Chapter 5: About Israel and Judah's sinful actions results in Assyrian and Babylon captivity.
Chapter 3: Sounds like America today~
For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
The stock and the store,
The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water,
The mighty man and the man of war.
The judge and the prophet,
And the diviner and the elder;
3. The captain of fifty and the honorable man,
The counselor and the skillful artisan.
And the expert enchanter.
(Because of their sin, the Lord would take away all the supplies and people on which she relied: food, water, soldiers, judge, prophet leaders, military leaders, skilled workers,and diviner.)
4. I will give children to be their princes,
And babes shall rule over them.
5. The people will be oppressed,
Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;
The child will be insolent toward the elder,
And the base toward the honorable.
(In contrast with these people who were considered wise and mighty the Lord would raise up foolish, weak leadership. Inexperienced boys and children would unable to stop oppression. The young leadership would have no solution to the problem shortages the people would face by the coming devastation of Judah by the Babylonians. Does it not sound like today with our young, weak college educated leaders? Did we not elect a president who only serve three years as a senator,and very young? Do we not have 'insolent' toward elders today with children?)
6. When a man takes hold of his brother
In the house of his father,
saying,
You have clothing;
You be our ruler,
And let these ruins be under your power,
7. In that day he will protest,
saying,
I cannot cure your ills,
For in my house is neither food nor clothing;
Do not make me a ruler of the people.
8. For Jerusalem stumbled,
And Judah is fallen,
Because their tongue and their doings
Are against the Lord,
To provoke the eyes of His glory.
9. The look on their countenance witnesses against them,
And they declare their sin as Sodom;
They do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought evil upon themselves.(The reason such destruction would come on Judah is that everything the nation said and did was against God like today. People defied God and were open about their sin much like the people of Sodom through homosexuality like today. Therefore coming disaster was brought on by themselves.)
10 Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them,
For they shall eat the fruit of their doings,
11.Woe to the wicked!It shall be ill with him,
For the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12. As for My people, children are their oppressors,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err
And destroy the way of your paths.(God's judgment is always fair. Wicked people often think that sinful living is the way to get ahead in life. Isaiah noted, however, that it is far better for a person to live righteously. Notice the women were ruling over them which isn't God's order,and their own children were their oppressors.)
13. The Lord stands up to plead,
And stand to judge the people.
14. The Lord will enter into judgment
With the elders of His people
And His princes:
For you have eaten up the vineyard:
The plunder of the poor is in your houses,
15. What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the faces of the poor?
Says the Lord God of hosts.
(Here Isaiah pictured the Lord seated in a courtroom ready to judge the people especially the leaders. By stating that He rises to judge. Two charges were against the leaders. First is that they had ruined God's vineyard that is in the OT, God's people of Israel. The leaders where to 'care' for the people; instead they ruined the people by oppressing them. Leaders took advantage of the poor by stealing what they had. Reminds me of our government using the illegals Mexicans for Democrats votes,cheap labor, and cheap labor to ruined American wages today--not to mention Nafta. These leaders saw opportunities to make money at the expense of others--like America today)
16. Moreover the Lord says:
Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
And walk with outstretched necks
And wanton eyes,
Walking and mincing as they go,
Making a jingling with their feet,(Sounds pretty much like today with most women in our society. Most celebries thinks it's a 'honor' to be put in the Playboy Mansion. These women were proud, flirting women ,and dressed as such like today)
17. Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab
The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,
And the Lord will uncover their secret parts,
18. In that day the Lord will take away the finery:
The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the crescents;
19. The pendants, the bracelets and the veils;
20. The headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands;The perfume boxes, the charms,
21. And the rings;
the nose jewels,
22. the festal apparel, and the mantles;
The outer garments, the purses,
23. and the mirrors;
The fine linen, the turbans and the robes,
24. And so it shall be:
Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench;
Instead of a sash, a rope
Instead of well-set hail, baldness;
Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.(In constrast with their pride, wealth, and beauty, the women of Zion would be in deep distress. They would have sores on their head and would be bald. Possibly being in deep distress, they would not care how they look. The Babylonian soldiers would take away all of their fine jewelry and clothes. Instead of sweet fragrance they would have an awful odor perhaps from their head sores. Taken captivity by the Babylonians, the women would be pulled by a rope and would wear sackcloth. Their beauty will be replace by painful branding by their captors. Later in Jeremiah wrote that the women resorted to eating their own children during the siege. Lam 2:20; 4:10; Lev. 26:27-29; Deut. 29:53-57 which I'm seeing today in our society where women have abortions, killing their own children, deglecting their children,and using their children to obtain wealthy gains.)
25. Your men shall fall by the sword
And your mighty in the war.
(The men would die in war)
26. Her gates shall lament and mourn,
And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.(The city would be so destitute of men and the women would be so disgraced that they would compete to gain a husband)
These scriptures remind me we as God's children need to do what is 'right as to the Lord',and not to follow the world. God did save a small remnant; however, I do believe they did suffer somewhat during captivity. When a nation replaces God with false idols, He will judge them,and we see this through Isaiah's prophecy that came to pass.
The Holy Spirit is the teacher so how does these scriptures speak to you?[/i]
