The "Day Of The Lord” Study In The Scriptures – Additional References Part 8 - Isaiah Series

THE “DAY OF THE LORD” STUDY IN THE SCRIPTURES – ADDITIONAL REFERENCES PART 8 - ISAIAH

The DAY OF THE LORD is “The Day of Jehovah” and its usage is always associated with something dire, with judgement, and with events outside the implementation of man. In other words, it is the intervention of God with the power of God in the affairs of this world. It has a primary application to Israel, but that is always extended often to a wider field, and that involves the world. Its main focus is in the Tribulation that is coming.

In “Additional References” we are looking into passages that belong to the Day of the LORD but don’t use that term specifically.

We continue -

NUMBER 5

[5]. {{Isaiah 24:17 “Terror and pit and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth. Isa 24:18 Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare for the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake. Isa 24:19 The earth is broken asunder, the earth is split through, the earth is shaken violently. Isa 24:20 The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard and it totters like a shack for its transgression is heavy upon it, and it will fall, never to rise again. Isa 24:21 It will happen in that day, that the LORD will punish the host of heaven on high, and the kings of the earth on earth, Isa 24:22 and they will be gathered together like prisoners in the dungeon and will be confined in prison and after many days they will be punished. Isa 24:23 Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and His glory will be before His elders.”}}

((Verse 17 addresses the inhabitants of the earth, so this passage is universal. Universal judgement on the earth is the Tribulation when the wrath of God in The Day of the LORD is unleashed. Verses 17-20 are great, dramatic judgement descriptions and fit Revelation, and the earthquakes of Revelation 6:12; 8:5; 11:13, 19; 16:18-19; Matthew 24:7. The severity of the wrath in the Tribulation is beyond our present thinking but it will come and it will be terrible but not for Christians because God will remove us from that wrath before it starts. Verse 21 uses the key phrase, “in that day” which always places events at the time of the end.

Note carefully the ending of verse 20 “and it will fall, never to rise again.” Once the Lord deals with this world and brings all man’s rule to the end at the Second Coming, then the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour. Man’s rule will fall and will never rise again. We don’t want it to rise again, because man has mucked it all up from the beginning. Once the Lord takes control, everything will be perfect.

Verse 21 is a most interesting one. The Lord defeats the kings of the earth and their armies in Israel at His Second Coming, and Satan and demons who are the host of heaven will be rendered ineffective for 1000 years. This is only my thinking on this, but I think the demons will be consigned to hell, but Satan to the abyss for the 1 000 years until he is released. Verse 22 is indefinite as to the party/ies which is/are specifically concerned. It could be both men and the demonic host or it many mean just Satan and his demons. In any case punishment awaits all those who are evil, men and demons.

Verse 23 is a very full verse. It begins with the signs of the Second Coming when the Lord returns to the Mount of Olives, but first He has to deal with the world’s armies that will be throttling Israel. Then the Lord establishes His Kingdom and will reign from Jerusalem. The leadership (elders) of Israel will see His glory, but we remember at His first coming it was the rulers and elders who had the Lord crucified. What a change this will be. That passage in Isaiah is so comprehensive for The Day of the LORD, that we must not overlook it.))

NUMBER 6

[6]. {{Isaiah 34:1-8 “Draw near, O nations, to hear and listen, O peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it Isa 34:2 for the LORD’s indignation is against all the nations and His wrath against all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over to slaughter. Isa 34:3 Their slain will be thrown out and their corpses will give off their stench, and the mountains will be drenched with their blood. Isa 34:4 All the host of heaven will wear away and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. All their hosts will also wither away as a leaf withers from the vine, or as one withers from the fig tree. Isa 34:5 My sword is satiated in heaven. Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom and upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction. Isa 34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood. It is sated with fat, 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. Isa 34:8 for the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.”}}