ISAIAH – ISRAEL BROUGHT BACK TO ITS OWN LAND

Isaiah 14:1-27

(A prophesy of the Jews being brought back to their own land

After having been dispersed to all the nations on earth.

This reality sets up The Time of The END.)

The Lord will have compassion on Jacob;

Once again he will choose Israel

And will settle them in their own land.

Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place.

AND THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL POSSESS THE NATIONS

As menservants and maidservants in the Lord's land.

They will make captives of their captors

And rule over their oppressors.

[Ultimately there is one Israel of God which includes all believers,

Who rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years at Jerusalem.

The nations of the world, who once held the Jews captive

Are now captives of the Israel of God.]

3 ON THE DAY the Lord gives you relief

From suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage,

4 You will take up this taunt

Against the king of Babylon (Satan):

HOW THE OPPRESSOR (SATAN) HAS COME TO AN END!

How his fury has ended!

5 The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked,

The scepter of the rulers,

6 Which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows,

And in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.

7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;

They break into singing.

8 Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon

Exult over you and say,

'Now that you have been laid low,

No woodsman comes to cut us down.'

9 The grave below is all astir

To meet you (Satan) at your coming;

It rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you--

ALL THOSE WHO WERE LEADERS IN THE WORLD;

It makes them rise from their thrones--

ALL THOSE WHO WERE KINGS OVER THE NATIONS.

10 They will respond, they will say to you,

'You also have become weak, as we are;

You have become like us.'

11 ALL YOUR POMP

HAS BEEN BROUGHT DOWN TO THE GRAVE,

Along with the noise of your harps;

Maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.

12 HOW YOU (SATAN) HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN,

O morning star, son of the dawn!

You have been cast down to the earth,

YOU WHO ONCE LAID LOW THE NATIONS!

You who once laid low the nations!

13 You said in your heart,

'I will ascend to heaven;

I will raise my throne above the stars of God.

I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,

On the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.

14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.'

15 But you are brought down to the grave,

To the depths of the pit.

16 Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate:

'IS THIS THE MAN WHO SHOOK THE EARTHQUAKE

AND MADE KINGDOMS TREMBLE,

17 THE MAN WHO MADE THE EARTH A DESERT,

Who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?'

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,

Each in his own tomb.

19 But you are cast out of your tomb

Like a rejected branch;

You are covered with the slain,

With those pierced by the sword,

Those who descend to the stones of the pit.

Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

20 You will not join them in burial.

For you have destroyed your land and killed your people.

THE OFF SPRING OF THE WICKED

WILL NEVER BE MENTIONED AGAIN.

21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons

For the sins of their forefathers;

They are not to rise to inherit the land

And cover the earth with their cities.

22 'I WILL RISE UP AGAISNT THEM,'

Declares the Lord Almighty.

I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors,

Her offspring and descendants,' declares the Lord.

23 'I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland;

I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,'

Declares the Lord Almighty.

24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,

'SURELY, AS I HAVE PLANNED, SO IT WILL BE,

And as I have purposed, so it will stand.

25 I will crush the Assyrian in my land;

(The Assyrian here is not only representative of Assyria

But all those who rebel against God)

On my mountains I will trample him down.

His yoke will be taken from My people,

And his burden removed from their shoulders.'

26 THIS IS THE PLAN DETERMINED

FOR THE WHOLE WORLD;

THIS IS THE HAND STRETCHED OUT

OVER ALL THE NATIONS

27 FOR THE LORD ALMIGHTY HAS PURPOSED,

And who can thwart him?

His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

(Isaiah 14:1-27)