Welcome to the Quick Study of Isaiah! We’re in chapter 13 this week, which is a prophecy about the destruction of Babylon. Yet the things in the part we’re reading for this quick study can be hints or promises at future events as well.
Before we begin, let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, these words are difficult to stomach, but Lord, I know the promise within them means when You reign here no evil or proud will exist. It’ll just be those of us with faith and humility and anticipatory expectation of Your coming that will remain with You. Help us stand firm, Lord. For You. Amen.
Please read Isaiah 13:9-11.
Isaiah 13:9-11 AMP
9 Listen carefully, the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with wrath and raging anger,
To make the land a horror [of devastation];
And He shall exterminate its sinners from it.
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash with their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises,
And the moon will not shed its light.
11 In this way I will punish the world for its evil
And the wicked for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing];
I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud
And will abase the arrogance of the tyrant.
In the footnotes of the chapter it said that this prophecy was written well over a hundred years before Babylon fell in 539BC. But even I don’t understand some of this chapter. Still, these words are true. The evil will be exterminated. There will not be arrogance in any way in the Kingdom. Pride is one of the deadly sins. All sinners without faith will disappear.
The Lord knows those who are His and He is always with us. But there are many without faith and one day, no one without faith will enter the Kingdom.
This is why Jesus said He is making everything new. There is so much wrongdoing that must be righted. There is so much injustice that must be justified. Yet it’s only those who belong to the Kingdom that will be in the Kingdom in the end. The rest will be gone. This life is all we have. Remain in Jesus now and you will with Him when He returns.