Isaiah 12 & 13

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So tonight we pick up in with a Hymn of praise to the Lord, Jesus really, during the millennium. Remember last time in Chapter 11 we saw the prophesy of Israel coming back to there homeland the second time and looked at some very interesting calculations regarding the date of May 14, 1948.

is a very short chapter but beautiful song.

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1 And in that day you will say:

“O LORD, I will praise You;

Though You were angry with me,

Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.

2 Behold, God is my salvation,

I will trust and not be afraid;

‘For YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song;

He also has become my salvation.’ ”

3 Therefore with joy you will draw water

From the wells of salvation.

4 And in that day you will say:

“Praise the LORD, call upon His name;

Declare His deeds among the peoples,

Make mention that His name is exalted.

5 Sing to the LORD,

For He has done excellent things;

This is known in all the earth.

6 Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

This Hymn or Psalm of praise begins with something that we would all like to hear of the unbelievers and doubters.

And in that day you will say:

Yes in that day things will be quit different. For the Jew who has realized that the Jesus they had despised is their very promised Messiah.

Verse 1 continues, Though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.

This is where many of us start, believing God is angry with us and rightly so. But we learn that when we turn to Him we are not punished but comforted.

Verse 2- Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’ ”

For many, God, is not there salvation. Maybe its money or some false belief but not Jesus. Until we reach that place we cannot say, I will trust and not be afraid;

The word for trust here in the Hebrew is batach . It means to trust in, to have confidence, to be secure.

It’s important to ask ourselves, do I really really trust God? I am I secure in Him?

Paul said, 5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. 6 But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

Isaiah continues:

2b - ‘For YAH, the LORD (YHWH) , is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’ ”

Note that Yahweh has become there salvation. Meaning God is not your salvation until He is!

3 - Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation. Have you ever been really thirsty? Well Israel is an arid place for the most part. Having a source of water was always on your mind. Imagine the joy of having access to a water source that was never ending.

Jesus promised us whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. () We can come to Jesus and draw water from the wells of salvation!

Notice there are “wells” plural. There are many places God has provided for our refreshment. Think of all the fellowships around the world, not to mention individual believers who have all been supplied by the same source.

Consider yourself as a well for others to be refreshed.

4 - And in that day you will say:

“Praise the LORD, call upon His name; Declare His deeds among the peoples, Make mention that His name is exalted.

5- Sing to the LORD, For He has done excellent things; This is known in all the earth.

6- Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

“Praise the LORD, call upon His name;

Declare His deeds among the peoples, Make mention that His name is exalted.

Now we change gears as we move into Chapter 13, the burden or heavy message against Babylon. Here again we see the near and far fulfillments.

Babylon was not yet the world power it would be but God in foreknowledge tells us what will happen centuries and millennia ahead of time. This was written about 100 years prior to Judah falling to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC.

The near fulfillment would the ultimate judgement on Babylon by the Medo - Persian empire but the latter would by the fall of mystery Babylon in the very end. Isaiah here makes mention of the “Day of the Lord” and the horrible things that will be happening on the earth.

13:1 - 8 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

"Lift up a banner on the high mountain, raise your voice to them; wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger; those who rejoice in My exaltation." The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts musters the army for battle. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven; the LORD and His weapons of indignation, to destroy the whole land.

Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore all hands will be limp, every man's heart will melt, and they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames.

Here if we read carefully we would have to admit that this doesn’t sound like the destruction of ancient Babylon. First, Babylon was never destroyed, though it was conquered by the Persians. The Persian army redirected the Euphrates river which allowed them to enter Babylon through the river bed.

You would have to think that the Jews found this message odd in that Babylon was just a city-state within the Assyrian empire. Perhaps God wanted it written so that the Jews would know that Babylon would get justice at some point after they would destroy Jerusalem.

In our text notice the language regarding His army.

I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger—

They come from a far country, From the end of heaven— The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

Persia was not a far kingdom or from the end of heaven.

Now in Verse 6 he says: Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

The day of the LORD is an important phrase, used some 26 times in the Bible. It speaks of not a single day of judgment, but of the season of judgment when the LORD sets things right. It is as if today is man's day, but the LORD's day is coming!

Also notice Verse 8 - at that time Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;

This is interesting language in light of the NT description of the Last Days. “pangs of childbirth”.

Isaiah now gets quite descriptive;

Vs 9 -16

Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and He will destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. "I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will move out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts and in the day of His fierce anger. It shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land. Everyone who is found will be thrust through, and everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished."

The bible has a lot to say on the subject of the Day of the Lord. Look at Zep 1

The New King James Version Chapter 1

14 The great day of the LORD is near;

It is near and hastens quickly.

The noise of the day of the LORD is bitter;

There the mighty men shall cry out.

15 That day is a day of wrath,

A day of trouble and distress,

A day of devastation and desolation,

A day of darkness and gloominess,

A day of clouds and thick darkness,

16 A day of trumpet and alarm

Against the fortified cities

And against the high towers.

17 “I will bring distress upon men,

And they shall walk like blind men,

Because they have sinned against the LORD;

Their blood shall be poured out like dust,

And their flesh like refuse.”

18 Neither their silver nor their gold

Shall be able to deliver them

In the day of the LORD’s wrath;

But the whole land shall be devoured

By the fire of His jealousy,

For He will make speedy riddance

Of all those who dwell in the land.

Amos 5:18 NKJV

18 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light.

Verse 9- Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.

This is the day that all the righteous have been calling for.

Cruel - indicates a harsh, savage cruelty.

Verse 10 - Isaiah describes: The stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened: Several prophetic passages describe the cosmic disturbances that will precede and surround the return of Jesus (, , ). In fact, Jesus was probably quoting or paraphrasing this passage from Isaiah in : Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Verse 11 - Punishment is coming for evil.

This is interesting language in light of the NT description of the Last Days. “pangs of childbirth”.

Verse 12 - death and destruction will make the living rare.

13 - Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

We have talked previously about the polar shift that seems to be going on! Some have postulated a 10th rouge planet that enters our solar system periodically. Called Nibaru, or Planet 10x.

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Verse 17 - Medes are the modern Kurds. Saddaam Hussain (King off modern Babylon) tried to annihilate through poison gas.

Verse 18 - Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, the word bows in Hebrew qesheth is used for rocket launchers.

Notice verse 20 - It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.