We are coming to a day when everything and everyone on earth will be cleansed. Jesus will take back rule and reign from Satanas and the people who continue to reject Jesus as Yahweh and Messiah will be gathered and separated from the earth. Yahweh Elohim has two armies which he has reserved for this day. One army will be the righteous saints wearing white. The other army will be specifically for Babylon’s complete destruction on the Day of the Lord. But first we have a few verses regarding Babylon’s war with the beast. Some time after the three and one half year mark of the tribulation the beast sets up his monetary system and takes rulership over the earth. Babylon will resist, but the people supporting Babylon are smaller in number than the beast, so Babylon will be overtaken.
Let’s remind ourselves of who is in heaven. The first fruits of rescue are the harpazo’d saints. Then there are the martyrs from under the altar. There are the nations and tribes gathered during the seal judgments who believed the testimony of the two witnesses. Then we have the 144,000 who are the first fruits of the heirs of Jacob. The last group before the Day of the Lord starts are those who did not take the mark of the beast but came to believe on Jesus.
As we start reviewing the Day of the Lord we will have to do a lot of reading. We will break this chapter up into two parts.
Revelation 19:1 G2532 And G3326 after G3778 these things G191 I heard G5613 as G5456 [2sound G3793 4multitude G4183 3of a great G3173 1a great] G1722 in G3588 the G3772 heaven, G3004 saying, G239 Alleluia; G3588 the G4991 deliverance, G2532 and G3588 the G1411 power, G2532 and G3588 the G1391 glory G3588 G2316 of our God. G1473
2 G3754 For G228 true G2532 and G1342 just G3588 are G2920 his judgments; G1473 G3754 for G2919 he judged G3588 the G4204 [2harlot G3588 G3173 1great], G3748 she who G1311 corrupted G3588 the G1093 earth G1722 with G3588 G4202 her harlotry; G1473 G2532 and G1556 he avenged G3588 the G129 blood G3588 G1401 of his bondmen G1473 G1537 from out of G5495 her hand. G1473
3 G2532 And G1208 a second time G2046 they have said, G239 Alleluia. G2532 And G3588 G2586 her smoke G1473 G305 ascends G1519 into G3588 the G165 eons G3588 of the G165 eons.
4 G2532 And G4098 [4fell G3588 1the G4245 3elders G3588 G1501.8 2twenty-four], G2532 and G3588 the G5064 four G2226 living creatures, G2532 and G4352 they did obeisance to G3588 G2316 God, G3588 to the one G2521 sitting G1909 upon G3588 the G2362 throne, G3004 saying, G281 Amen; G239 alleluia.
5 G2532 And G5456 a voice G1537 from G3588 the G2362 throne G1831 came forth, G3004 saying, G134 Praise G3588 G2316 our God G1473 G3956 all G3588 G1401 his bondmen, G1473 G2532 and G3588 the ones G5399 fearing G1473 him -- G3588 the G3397 small G2532 and G3588 the G3173 great!
The first thing to observe here is that the first five verses of chapter 19 belong to chapter 18. The celebration in heaven for the destruction of Babylon’s system is important and not just because of commerce and the destruction of Nimrod’s system of societal order but also Babylons religious order. When Judah went into captivity (three different times) Judah’s people settled in Babylon. Many people simply stayed in Babylon under Assyrian rule because they felt it was better where they were. Also, people whose families mixed while in Babylon were not allowed to come back to Judah to worship in the new temple. Peter wrote his letters to the Jews in Babylon. Daniel never left Babylon, but Daniel taught the Magi astronomy and what to look for when the Messiah would come. The first Babylonian exile which Daniel was part of was around 606 BC. For perspective, the Septuagint was written in 250 BC. Peter was writing to Jews in Babylon around 63 AD. Around 600 AD the Jews of Babylon wrote the Talmud. The Babylonian Talmud is more popular than the Jerusalem Talmud which was written about 100 years earlier. Judaism has a strong spiritual Babylonian connection. While we speak of Churches following in the system of Babylon in commerce, the spiritual foundation is not Babylon but Jesus Christ. For the Jews Babylon is of spiritual importance due to the Talmud. This spiritual system of Babylon is destroyed and heaven rejoices.
Now we are moving forward in time to the Day of the Lord. The day that kingdoms and tribes are judged and the day of wrath and anger to the evil people attempting to fight against the Lamb of the Elohim.
Revelation 19:6 G2532 And G191 I heard G5613 as G5456 a sound G3793 [2multitude G4183 1of a great], G2532 and G5613 as G5456 a sound G5204 [2waters G4183 1of great], G2532 and G5613 as G5456 a sound G1027 [2thunders G2478 1of strong], G3004 saying, G239 Alleluia; G3754 for G936 [4reigns G2962 1 the Lord G3588 G2316 2God G3588 G3841 3almighty].
7 G5463 Let us rejoice G2532 and G21 exult, G2532 and G1325 let us give G3588 the G1391 glory G1473 to him! G3754 for G2064 [5is come G3588 1the G1062 2wedding G3588 3of the G721 4lamb], G2532 and G3588 G1135 his wife G1473 G2090 prepared G1438 herself.
The wedding of the Lamb is taking place, the wife is prepared with special garments.
Revelation 19:8 G2532 And G1325 it was given G1473 to her G2443 that G4016 she should wear G1039 fine linen G2986 bright G2532 and G2513 clean; G3588 for the G1063 G1039 fine linen, G3588 [2the G1345 3right actions G1510.2.3 1is] G3588 of the G39 holy ones.
The white garments are given for righteous acts, dikaiōma, of the saints.
Revelation 19:9 G2532 And G3004 he says G1473 to me, G1125 Write! G3107 Blessed are G3588 the ones G1519 [2to G3588 3the G1173 4supper G3588 5of the G1062 6wedding G3588 7of the G721 8lamb G2564 1being called]. G2532 And G3004 he says G1473 to me, G3778 These G3588 G3056 words G228 [2are true G1510.2.6 G3588 G2316 1of God].
Blessed are the ones invited to the wedding supper of the lamb. This logos of the Elohim is true. Who is speaking?
Revelation 19:10 G2532 And G4098 I fell G1715 before G3588 G4228 his feet G1473 G4352 to do obeisance to G1473 him. G2532 And G3004 he says G1473 to me, G3708 See G3361 that you do not! G4889 [2fellow-servant G1473 1I am your], G1510.2.1 G2532 and G3588 G80 of your brethren G1473 G3588 G2192 having G3588 the G3141 testimony G3588 G* of Jesus; G3588 to G2316 God G4352 do obeisance! G3588 For the G1063 G3141 testimony G3588 G* of Jesus G1510.2.3 is G3588 the G4151 spirit G3588 of the G4394 prophecy.
Who is John talking to? This person is a fellow servant and of his brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. We know that there are only two people who were taken up with their bodies. We also know that John was on the mount of transfiguration and saw two people. If this person was someone who was on the mount of transfiguration then John would know who he was, but if this person is someone who was taken up before John was born and had never been seen by the disciples, who would it be? Enoch. In Revelation 22:9 he says that he is a fellow servant and of the brethren the prophets and those who keep the sayings of this book. Why is Enoch explaining this part of the Day of the Lord?
Revelation 19:11 G2532 And G1492 I saw G3588 the G3772 heaven G455 being opened, G2532 and G2400 behold, G2462 [2horse G3022 1a white]; G2532 and G3588 the one G2521 sitting G1909 upon G1473 him G2564 being called G4103 trustworthy G2532 and G228 true, G2532 and G1722 with G1343 righteousness G2919 he judges G2532 and G4170 wages war.
12 G3588 G1161 And G3788 his eyes G1473 G5395 a flame G4442 of fire, G2532 and G1909 upon G3588 G2776 his head G1473 G1238 [2diadems G4183 1many]; G2192 having G3686 names G1125 being written, G2532 and G3686 a name G1125 being written G3739 which G3762 no one G1492 knows G1508 except G1473 himself.
13 G2532 And G4016 wearing G2440 a cloak G911 being dipped G129 in blood, G2532 and G2564 [2is called G3588 G3686 1his name], G1473 G3588 The G3056 Word G3588 G2316 of God.
His name is called the Logos of the Elohim. In the beginning was the Logos and the Logos was with the Elohim and the Logos was the Elohim, John 1:1. The word, the Logos, should hold more preeminence in our mind than anything else because Jesus Messiah is the Logos. Everything that the Holy Spirit inspired people to write is the Logos. This is why it is shameful when puny humans alter or disregard the words of the Creator of Life. The Masoretes have sentenced millions of their own people to hades by altering the scriptures in the old covenant simply because they themselves did not believe Jesus is the Messiah sent to earth to redeem them. Now there are Jews caught up in this time period that are afraid to believe because their religion condemns Jesus as Messiah, and they will unfortunately choose the beast, there is no other way. Far too many knowledgable Christian scholars have hidden this information regarding the alterations of scripture in the Masoretic text. Maybe they are trying to be nice and not upset the Jews, but by being nice, people are being lost.
Revelation 19:14 G2532 And G3588 the G4753 militaries, G3588 the ones G1722 in G3588 the G3772 heaven G190 followed G1473 him G1909 upon G2462 [2horses G3022 1white], G1746 being clothed in G1039 [3fine linen G3022 2white G2513 1clean].
The militaries are not armed, they have no weapons, they are wearing white. We know from Joel that the armies of Yahweh sweep the earth.
This is why Enoch is explaining to John what happens on the Day of the Lord. Notice what Enoch tells us.
Enoch1:1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, with which he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless people are to be removed (from the earth). 2 And he began his story saying: (I am) Enoch, a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, and who saw the vision of the Holy One in heaven, which the angels showed me. And I heard everything from them, and I saw and understood, but it was not for this generation (to know), but for a remote one which is to come. 3 As I began my story concerning the elect I said, The Holy Great One will come out from His dwelling, 4 And the eternal God will tread on the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai, and appear in the strength of His might from heaven. 5 And all shall be very afraid. The Watchers shall shake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them all the way to the ends of the earth. 6 And the high mountains shall be shaken, and the high hills shall be laid low, and shall melt like wax in the flame. 7 And the earth shall be completely torn apart, and all that is on the earth shall be destroyed, And there shall be a judgment on all. 8 But with the righteous He will make peace; and will protect the elect and mercy shall be on them. And they shall all belong to God, and they shall prosper, and they shall be blessed. And the light of God shall shine on them. 9 And behold! He comes with ten thousand of His holy ones (saints) to execute judgment on all, and to destroy all the ungodly (wicked); and to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 17). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Jude 14 (AMP) It was of these people, moreover, that Enoch in the seventh [generation] from Adam prophesied when he said, Behold, the Lord comes with His myriads of holy ones (ten thousands of His saints)
15 To execute judgment upon all and to convict all the impious (unholy ones) of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed [in such an] ungodly [way], and of all the severe (abusive, jarring) things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), Jud 14–15.
The knowledge of the Day of the Lord was known from the time of Enoch through to Noah, and through the time of David and Solomon. At some point in modern times it seems to have fallen out of favor but the major and minor prophets referred to the “Day of the Lord” as a terrifying day, a day of judgments, and a day of wrath from the Lord. If people are rejoicing in the Day of the Lord they are greatly mistaken. No one should rejoice in the Day of the Lord because it means we Christians did not educate and enable people with the true knowledge of Yahweh Jesus Messiah. We allowed the people of earth to believe a lie, that Jesus is not the Messiah. We allowed the people of earth to believe in a false messiah, the son of perdition, the beast, as their savior. We should see this as a failure of the Christians to reach people before the seals have been opened. While we know there is nothing we can do when people refuse Jesus’ Lordship, maybe we could have done more, fought harder, kept our Christian nations sovereign as Christian nations, without being ashamed of our Christian heritage. Maybe we could have kept the ten commandments in public spaces and only elected leaders who lived a faithful Christian life. The people left on earth on the Day of the Lord have had several chances to confess Jesus as Lord, but we have to ask ourselves, what did we do to educate them? We hid our Christian heritage, we hid our Christian behaviors, we hid our Christian faith, and eventually we didn’t look particularly Christian anymore.
Revelation 19:15 G2532 And G1537 from out of G3588 G4750 his mouth G1473 G1607 goes forth G4501 [3broadsword G1366 2double-edged G3691 1a
sharp], G2443 that G1722 with G1473 it G3960 he should strike G3588 the G1484 nations. G2532 And G1473 he G4165 shall tend G1473 them G1722 with G4464 a rod G4603 of iron. G2532 And G1473 he G3961 treads G3588 the G3025 wine vat G3588 of the G3631 wine G3588 of the G2372 rage G3588 of the G3709 wrath G3588 G2316 of God G3588 G3841 almighty.
We should notice that out of Jesus’ mouth goes a sharp double edged sword. We know from Hebrews 4:12 that the Logos of the Elohim is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and joint and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Jesus is the Logos. Out of Jesus’ mouth proceeds the Logos. The Logos kills the enemy. The Logos is his weapon, like a sword, that destroys every last human who rejects the Elohim. He speaks it and it happens. Jesus doesn’t have to stab every last human on the earth, the Logos he speaks pierces everyone.
Revelation 19:16 G2532 And G2192 he has G1909 upon G3588 the G2440 cloak, G2532 and G1909 upon G3588 G3382 his thigh, G1473 G3686 a name G1125 being written, G935 King G935 of kings, G2532 and G2962 Lord G2962 of lords.
Here Abram is talking to Terah about Nimrod.
Jasher 12:64 Abram said to his father, Do you not know that the king thinks to kill me, and to annihilate my name from the earth by the advice of his wicked counselors? 65 Now whom have you here and what have you in this land? Arise, let us go together to the land of Canaan, that we may be delivered from his hand, that you not perish also through him in the latter days. 66 Do you not know or have you not heard, that it is not through love that Nimrod gives you all this honor, but it is only for his benefit that he bestows all this good on you? 67 And if he does to you greater good than this, certainly these are only vanities of the world, for wealth and riches cannot avail in the day of wrath and anger.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Lost Books of the Bible: The Great Rejected Texts (p. 338). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Job mentions this:
Job 21:30 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
Isaac says this:
Jubilees 24:28 On that day Isaac cursed the Philistines and said, “Cursed be the Philistines to the day of wrath and indignation from among all nations. May God make them a disdain and a curse and an object of anger and indignation in the hands of the Gentile sinners and in the hands of the Kittim.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Lost Books of the Bible: The Great Rejected Texts (p. 267). (Function). Kindle Edition.
David writes this:
Psa 110:1 A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Psa 110:2 The Lord shall send out a rod of power for thee out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Psa 110:3 With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, in the splendours of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning.
Psa 110:4 The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.
Psa 110:5 The Lord at thy right hand has dashed in pieces kings in the day of his wrath.
Psa 110:6 He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth.
Psa 110:7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.
Solomon says this:
Psalms of Solomon PSALM 15:1 A Psalm of Solomon. With a Song. When I was in distress, I called on the Name of the Lord, || I hoped for the help of the God of Jacob and was saved; 2 For the hope and refuge of the poor are You, O God. 3 For who, O God, is strong except to give thanks to You in truth? 4 And wherein is a man powerful except in giving thanks to Your Name 5 A new psalm with song in gladness of heart, || The fruit of the lips with the well-tuned instrument of the tongue, || The first-fruits of the lips from a pious and righteous heart— 6 He that offers these things will never be shaken by evil; The flame of fire and the wrath against the unrighteous will not touch him 7 When it goes forth from the face of the Lord against sinners, || To destroy all the substance of sinners, 8 For the mark of God is on the righteous that they may be saved. Famine, and sword, and pestilence [will be] far from the righteous, 9 For they will flee away from the pious as men pursued in war; But they will pursue sinners and overtake [them], || And they that do lawlessness will not escape the judgment of God; As by enemies experienced [in war], they will be overtaken, 10 For the mark of destruction is on their forehead. 11 And the inheritance of sinners is destruction and darkness, || And their iniquities will pursue them to Sheol beneath. 12 Their inheritance will not be found of their children, 13 For sins will lay waste the houses of sinners. And sinners will perish forever in the day of the Lord’s judgment 14 When God visits the earth with His judgment. 15 But they that fear the Lord will find mercy therein, || And will live by the compassion of their God; But sinners will perish forever.
Press, Covenant; Coalition, Covenant Christian. The Complete 54-Book Apocrypha: 2022 Edition With the Deuterocanon, 1-3 Enoch, Giants, Jasher, Jubilees, Pseudepigrapha, & the Apostolic Fathers (pp. 1999-2000). (Function). Kindle Edition.
This is the day that the ancients wrote about. This is the Day of the Lord. Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords.
Isa 2:6 (Brenton) For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.
Isa 2:7 For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.
Isa 2:8 And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshipped the works which their fingers made.
This is Babylons system, lots of wealth in Israel and they are worshipping the works of their own hands.
Isa 2:9 And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.
Isa 2:10 Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
Isa 2:11 For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isa 2:12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;
Isa 2:13 and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon every oak of Basan,
Isa 2:14 and upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
Isa 2:15 and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,
Isa 2:16 and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine ships.
Isa 2:17 And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isa 2:18 And they shall hide all idols made with hands,
Isa 2:19 having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
Isa 2:20 For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats;
Isa 2:21 to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
This sounds like a warning that is trying to encourage people to humble themselves when Revelation 6 occurs because the Day of the Lord is coming.
Isa 13:1 THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS SAW AGAINST BABYLON.
Isa 13:2 Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open the gates, ye rulers.
Isa 13:3 I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.
Is the Lord releasing the imprisoned Grigori to help on the Day of the Lord?
The Secrets of Enoch 18:1 The men took me on to the fifth heaven and placed me, and there I saw many and countless soldiers, called Grigori, of human appearance, and their size (was) greater than that of great giants and their faces withered, and the silence of their mouths perpetual, and their was no service on the fifth heaven, and I said to the men who were with me: 2 Wherefore are these very withered and their faces melancholy, and their mouths silent, and (wherefore) is there no service on this heaven? 3 And they said to me: These are the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail (Satan) rejected the Lord of light, and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second heaven, and three of them went down on to earth from the Lord’s throne, to the place Ermon, and broke through their vows on the shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw the daughters of men how good they are, and took to themselves wives, and befouled the earth with their deeds, who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing, and giants are born and marvellous big men and great enmity. 4 And therefore God judged them with great judgment, and they weep for their brethren and they will be punished on the Lord’s great day. 5 And I said to the Grigori: I saw your brethren and their works, and their great torments, and I prayed for them, but the Lord has condemned them (to be) under earth till (the existing) heaven and earth shall end for ever. 6 And I said: Wherefore do you wait, brethren, and do not serve before the Lord’s face, and have not put your services before the Lord’s face, lest you anger your Lord utterly? 7 And they listened to my admonition, and spoke to the four ranks in heaven, and lo! As I stood with those two men four trumpets trumpeted together with great voice, and the Grigori broke into song with one voice, and their voice went up before the Lord pitifully and affectingly.
Anonime. The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Function). Kindle Edition.
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Now we can understand why the armies of saints are not armed. The Grigori will be taking care of fulfilling the wrath of Yahweh Elohim in Babylon. They will finish destroying Babylon and the people who moved into her region after the beast made war with her.
David wrote what Isaiah recorded.
Psa 24:7 Lift up your gates, ye princes, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.
Psa 24:8 Who is this king of Glory? the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Psa 24:9 Lift up your gates, ye princes; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.
Psa 24:10 Who is this king of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is this king of glory.
Isaiah 13:2 G1909 [3upon G3735 4a mountain G3977 5plain G142 1Lift up G4592 2a sign]! G5312 Raise up high G3588 the G5456 voice G1473 to them! G3361 Do not G5399 fear! G3870 Call for aid G3588 with the G5495 hand! G455 Open, G3588 O G758 rulers!
“Take up sign upon mountain plain, raise up your voice, not fear, to call the hand, open the archōn.”
Isaiah 13:3 G1473 I G4929 order G2532 and G1473 I G71 lead G1473 them; G1095.2 giants G2064 come G4137 to fill G3588 G2372 my rage, G1473 G5463 rejoicing G260 together G2532 and G5195 insulting.
“I put in order together and I lead them, giants come to make complete my outburst of passion, rejoicing at the the same time and exercising violence.”
Giants mean “giants”. They come rejoicing because they are now out of the fifth heaven and they rejoice while being violent. The Grigori, the ones in the dark, came to earth following Satanail. The watchers came after the Grigori and are in the second heaven. The watchers are judged at the white throne judgment just before the new heaven and new earth is established. The Grigori are judged at the end of the Day of the Lord. This is their opportunity to make themselves right.
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Isa 13:4 A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,
Isa 13:5 to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.
Isa 13:6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.
Isa 13:7 Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
Isa 13:8 The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
Isa 13:9 For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
Isa 13:10 For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.
Isa 13:11 And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.
Isa 13:12 And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.
For those who can survive this they will be very refined.
Isa 13:13 For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.
Isa 13:14 And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.
Isa 13:15 For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.
Isa 13:16 And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.
Isa 13:17 Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.
Isa 13:18 They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.
Isa 13:19 And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.
Isa 13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.
Isa 13:21 But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,
Isa 13:22 and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.
Isaiah sees through to the millennial reign when the region of Babylon will be a wasteland for demons.
Isa 34:1 Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
Isa 34:2 For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
Isa 34:3 And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
Isa 34:4 And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
Isa 34:5 My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
Isa 34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.
Isa 34:7 And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
Isa 34:8 For it is the day of judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.
Isa 34:9 And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
Isa 34:10 and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
Isa 34:11 and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
Again Isaiah seeing into the millennial kingdom.
Isa 34:12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
Isa 34:13 And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.
Isa 34:14 And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.
Isa 34:15 There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
Isa 34:16 They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.
Isa 34:17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.
Isaiah continues and talks about what happens after the Day of the Lord has occurred.
Isa 35:1 Be glad, thou thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.
Isa 35:2 And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.
Isa 35:3 Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.
Isa 35:4 Comfort one another, ye fainthearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and he will render it; he will come and save us.
Isa 35:5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear.
Isa 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.
Isa 35:7 And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.
Isa 35:8 There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.
Some translations call this the “highway” and people refer to this as the “highway of holiness”. This phrase is catchy but it is not a highway like a fast roadway with speed limits at 75 mph. It is a pure road, not a fast road. A road of holiness. What does Isaiah mean? The people traveling on this road are going to Jerusalem and they have been refined and made pure.
Isa 35:9 And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it,
Isa 35:10 and shall return, and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.
Daniel tells us this:
Dan 12:1 And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time thy people shall be delivered, even every one that is written in the book.
Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.
Dan 12:3 And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous as the stars for ever and ever.
Dan 12:4 And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.
Dan 12:5 And I Daniel saw, and, behold, two others stood, on one side of the bank of the river, and the other on the other side of the bank of the river.
Dan 12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, When will be the end of the wonders which thou has mentioned?
Dan 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, and he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and sware by him that lives for ever, that it should be for a time of times and half a time: when the dispersion is ended they shall know all these things.
Dan 12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: and I said, O Lord, what will be the end of these things?
Dan 12:9 And he said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end.
Dan 12:10 Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Dan 12:11 And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Dan 12:12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Dan 12:13 But go thou, and rest; for there are yet days and seasons to the fulfillment of the end; and thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Daniel understands that the purpose of the tribulation is for refining. Some people will survive, but only if they confess Jesus as Lord and believe the Elohim rose him up on the third day.
More on the Day of the Lord next week.
