Isaiah

The Book of Isaiah is a beautiful, poetic, worshipful, and wonderfully God-honoring masterpiece. It is this author’s opinion that Isaiah, the author, was one of the godliest men who ever lived. And his book is easily one of the most important in the Bible. When you are studying Bible prophecy, or certainly the Bible as a whole, this book should be one that you study diligently.

God warned the nations, that the day of vengeance was coming.

In this chapter, Isaiah describes what he calls “the day of vengeance.”  As many of you know, that is the day of judgment that the world has been warned about for thousands of years. And now, we are on the threshold of that long-delayed judgment. As predicted, that day will be a day of graphic content, bloody swords, rotting corpses, and rivers of blood. Also, the Bible even describes what appears to be a nuclear exchange. But of course, the writers could not have understood such massive devastation.

God’s patience will end and the time of wrath will begin.

This is not a fun topic to write about, but it is a clear truth that is described often in the scriptures. We ignore this at our eternal peril. For some, it sounds like the guy who wore the sandwich board sign over his shoulders. He cried that the end was near. The end never did come, so the poor soul is pitied by a few, mocked by many, but ignored by most.

It’s important to keep the big picture in focus. The Bible is God’s story concerning his interactions with mankind. Within that story, there is a rebellion of angelic powers. Among the myriads of angels, (that’s a poor word to represent the immense power some possess.), some of them rebelled against the rule of God.

A rebellion that failed.

Those rebellious angels set their focus on destroying what God was doing with humans. The rebellion continues to this day unabated. The chess pieces are in place. The Master is ready for His final moves. The players plan their strategies. The match continues until there is a checkmate. The day of vengeance is checkmate. I may need a sandwich board sign that says checkmate is coming

The outcome that God’s Word points to is the end of that rebellion. The disobedient, fallen powers have tried to influence mankind. They want us to stand against God. That plan has succeeded on a large scale. But it failed miserably when the devil put Christ on the cross.

Isaiah 9:6

Related Content for the Book of Isaiah

Isaiah 61 The Bible Project presents “Restoring the World” 

Destruction of Leviathan: Isaiah 26-27 & a rapture verse 

A Voice in the Wilderness. Isaiah 40 & John the Baptist 

Streams in the desert: Isaiah 35 Restoring the planet