Welcome to the quick study of Isaiah! We’re in chapter 24 this week and oh my it was hard to make it short. Devastation ahead, please, go read the whole thing, it’s not really that long.
Before we start reading though, let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, without You these words would terrify me, so I am asking for Your help in understanding, your leadership and guidance and Lord, if You would please help us understand this. Thank You.
Isaiah 24 – AMP
Please ready Isaiah 24:1-6
1Behold, the Lord [a]lays waste to the earth, devastates it, twists and distorts its face and scatters its inhabitants.2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor [as God’s impartial judgment of sin comes on all].3 The earth will be completely laid waste and utterly pillaged, for the Lord has spoken this word. 4 The earth dries up and crumbles away, the world dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. 5The earth also is polluted[b]by its inhabitants, because they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer the punishment of their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned [under the curse of God’s wrath], and few people are left.
Make sure you are right with God or you will be like the majority of the people in these verses. For those of us who are with God are expecting a new earth anyway. He is making everything new. Praise His holy Name.
Footnotes
- [a] Isaiah 24:1 The gradual destruction of the earth, as revealed by God to Isaiah, is prophesied in this passage. He sees both the current and the future tragedies which will befall earth.
- [b] Isaiah 24:5 Lit under.