The Prophecy of Isaiah - Part 77 Discussion

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Isa 21:1-10  Babylon Is Fallen, Is Fallen, Part 1

Isa 21:1  The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isa 21:2  A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Isa 21:3  Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isa 21:4  My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Isa 21:5  Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Isa 21:6  For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
Isa 21:7  And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
Isa 21:8  And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
Isa 21:9  And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Isa 21:10  O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

We must remember that this entire prophecy of Isaiah is all addressed to "Judah and Jerusalem".

Isa 1:1  The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

This entire prophecy is "concerning Judah and Jerusalem", and yet to this point it's the third chapter of this prophecy which also concerns itself with Babylon. Two previous chapters, chapters 13 and 14, and now these ten verses of this 21st chapter are all concerned with Babylon.

These first ten verses of this chapter are a reiteration of the judgment of Babylon, which we were given back in Isaiah 13.

Here is how Isaiah 13 ends:

Isa 13:19  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa 13:20  It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Isa 13:21  But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Isa 13:22  And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

The next chapter, Isaiah 14, is the chapter so commonly mistaken as being addressed to Satan as "Lucifer, son of the morning". While those words are in that chapter, they simply do not mean what has been read into them by those who believe that 'Lucifer' is another name for Satan, instead of a description of how the king of Babylon perceives himself "in [his] heart":

Let's look at it for ourselves.

Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isa 14:13  For thou [the king of Babylon (vs 4)] hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

The vast majority of Christian denominations believe that this chapter, along with Ezekiel 28, are both teaching us that Satan was made perfect and then rebelled against God and fell from heaven. By teaching that false doctrine they are denying the Truth, which is that Satan, as he presently is, is a work of the Lord's hand along with everything else that exists:

Job 26:13  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Isa 54:16  Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Now since these ten verses are about Babylon, and since Isaiah 14 is also called a "proverb against the king of Babylon", let's take a closer look at what the scriptures themselves tell us is actually the subject of Isaiah 14 which is also the subject of our study today.

Isa 14:3  And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isa 14:4  That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Isa 14:5  The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

The previous chapter, chapter 13, this 14th chapter, and now the first ten verses of the 21st chapter are all addressed to "the Israel of God", telling us what the Lord will do to Babylon, which He uses as a terrible affliction upon all nations on earth. This is what the Lord tells us is how He used the Assyrians and the Babylonians for His own purposes "after the counsel of His own will" (Eph 1:11):

Isa 10:5  O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Assyria and Babylon are two city states which were both located in "the land of Shinar" (Gen 11:2). They are both the same people whom the Lord used to punish all the nations of the known world in the days of ancient Israel.

It is for that very purpose of punishing this world for its sins, that in the New Testament, Babylon is revealed to be the symbol of the religious systems of this world through whom the Lord is even now actually in the process of bringing about universal punishment upon all of Noah's descendants who have turned their backs upon Him and have instead followed their own hearts.

In the book of Revelation it is revealed to us that Babylon is now the religious systems of this world, which now fulfill Assyria and Babylon's function as the rod of the Lord's indignation:

Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Who is this harlot given to dominate? This is not guess work. We are told who she dominates.

Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

And this is reiterated at the end of this 17th chapter:

Rev 17:15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

The kings of the earth and the peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues of all men are under the destructive influence of this great whore. The "names of blasphemy" upon this woman are 'Christendom, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Atheism, etc. Christian ministers proudly take credit for the wars of the reformation. They brag that they were instrumental in the United States revolutionary war, the United States civil war, and for convincing the United States to enter both world wars. To this very day it is the ministers of this nation who are pushing wars upon us, and we, as a nation, willingly support their totally apostate actions. The same is true for the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Atheist religions, which are constantly calling those in their charge to go to war against their fellow man. They are one and all "the rod of [the Lord's] indignation" upon those whom He has placed under their sensual, destructive power and influence.

It is because the Lord has kept this function of the world's religions hidden from the whole world that this world's religions are called "Mystery [Greek: 'secret'] Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth". This spiritual harlot has ruled the nations of this world as ruthlessly as any self-centered whore rules over the men who are enslaved to her sensuous ways. Physical Assyria and later physical Babylon were ruthless nations to whom the Lord Himself gave the charge of punishing His apostatized people and all known nations of that day, just as He has been using the religions of mankind since Christ's time on this earth in an earthen vessel. Thus, God says of the religious systems of this world:

Isa 10:5  O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

The religions of this world are 'the rod of the Lord's anger, and the staff in their hand is His indignation'. How true are those words within us when we are mercilessly used by this great harlot, who dominates our lives and requires that we observe all of her extremely sensual and very expensive traditions, and that we give of our lives and of our substance to her for so long before we come to know the liberty we have in Christ.

We will see in today's study that the words of Revelation, concerning the great harlot who makes the world drunk on the wine of her spiritual fornication and commits spiritual fornication with the kings of the earth, first appear right here in the book of Isaiah. Babylon's function as the rod of the Lord's indignation, and the destruction of Babylon, are revealed to us here in this prophecy of Isaiah. Spiritual Babylon, the rod of the Lord's indignation, is the Lord's instrument for punishing those who have turned their backs on Him, and it is her own words which will be used to punish and correct Babylon:

Jer 2:19  Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

This chapter begins with another very revealing name for Babylon. She is called "the desert of the sea".

Isa 21:1  The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

A 'burden' is a heavy message of great significance. It is heavy because it is so ominous, and it comes as whirlwinds which typify the Lord's wrath.

Here is how this word "whirlwinds" is used in the fifth chapter of this prophecy:

Isa 5:25  Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 5:26  And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
Isa 5:27  None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Isa 5:28  Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

However, the significance of a whirlwind was established even earlier in the book of Proverbs:

Pro 1:25  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Pro 1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Pro 1:27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

"The burden of the desert of the sea" is the burden of the destruction of Babylon.

Here is Strong's definition of the Hebrew word translated here as 'burden':

H4853
מַשָּׂא
maśśâ'
mas-saw'
From H5375; a burden; specifically tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire: - burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.

This message is "chiefly a doom" being uttered by the Lord Himself against those He has said are "the rod of [His] indignation". They have served Him well as such, but now the time has come for "the rod of [His] indignation" to be punished and to be destroyed from off the face of the earth.

Chapter 13 began with this same word concerning the judgment of Babylon:

Isa 13:1  The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

The universal spiritual application of the name 'Babylon' is demonstrated in this 13th chapter of Isaiah with these statements:

Isa 13:4  The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
Isa 13:5  They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isa 13:6  Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isa 13:7  Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

Isa 13:9  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isa 13:10  For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isa 13:11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isa 13:12  I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Isa 13:13  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isa 13:14  And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
Isa 13:15  Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Isa 13:16  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isa 13:17  Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Isa 13:19  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa 13:20  It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

These verses here in Isaiah 13 make it obvious that "the burden of Babylon" is very closely related to "the day of the Lord... the day of His fierce anger."

Isa 13:6  Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Isa 13:9  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 

Isa 13:13  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

That is what happens when this verse is being fulfilled:

Isa 13:19  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

It is because spiritual 'Babylon' is predestined to be overthrown and destroyed "as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah", that Babylon is addressed as "the desert of the sea".

A desert is dry and unproductive, devoid of any rain or of waters from any source. A desert has nothing to offer us to sustain us, so Babylon is called "the desert of the sea", because we, as mankind, are the 'sea', and Babylon is truly a spiritually dead dry desert which really has nothing to offer us but our own dried up destruction. But "the Israel of God", the Israel who 'comes out of Babylon', will one day be given to convert the "abundance of sea", and then there will no longer be "the desert of the sea":

Isa 60:1  Arise, shine; for thy ["the Israel of God" (Gal 6:15-16)] light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Isa 60:2  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Isa 60:3  And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Isa 60:4  Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
Isa 60:5  Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

First Babylon must be destroyed from within us, and we must "come out of her" (Rev 18:4). That is a necessary event, but it is not as simple as merely saying so. Coming out of the spiritually dry, desert religions of this world is a painful experience indeed. It is nothing less than the death of our rebellious old man and the total destruction of his kingdom within us. It comes to us only through "much tribulation" and through "fiery trials":

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

That is the message of these words:

Isa 21:2  A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

The sighing of God's elect ceases when they are delivered by their Lord from the treachery of Babylon:

Isa 35:10  And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

But world leaders are no different than you and me. They, too, are "the basest of men" (Dan 4:17). All of what is being said here of Babylon being conquered and destroyed by the Medes and the Persians, is simply what must take place within each of us as the Lord judges us and drags us to Himself. Outwardly all of this treachery between nations is simply our beast having his way on a national level. We are all just naturally treacherous and greedy. "The treacherous dealer deals treacherously" is demonstrated outwardly every time we have an election here in the United States. Whatever a politician promises in the primaries is the exact opposite of what he will do when he gets into office. It is also demonstrated in the way nations deal with each other. Any time one nation invades and conquers another, that conquest is always accomplished through treachery. It is accomplished through greed, lying, subterfuge and treachery. When one nation is conquered, plans are immediately laid to begin the conquest of the next neighbor nation, and it never ends:

Hab 2:5  Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer; the haughty man abideth not; he who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

This is each of us inwardly. Outwardly and in this world all spies and double agents are required to be treacherous. Their job description requires that they be willing to lie, cheat and to steal from the enemy of their country. So we see these same words of treacherous behavior being used to describe what happens within and without as the very sign of the coming of Christ to this earth to establish His kingdom. This is the same treachery we experience within us which God uses to bring all of us to our "wits' end" (Psa 107:27) and to drag us out of Babylon.

Every significant event in our lives, inwardly and outwardly, are preceded by the downfall of the preceding economy. This principle is expressed Biblically and spiritually with these words:

Pro 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

The fulfillment of this principle is also the outward sign of the coming of Christ to establish His dominion over the outward kingdoms of this world as we are told in:

Isa 24:1  Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isa 24:2  And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Isa 24:3  The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isa 24:4  The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isa 24:5  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isa 24:6  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

These verses are not describing fire coming down from heaven and devouring the nations in the four quarters of the earth. Rather, these verses tell us that the Lord "turns... the earth... upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof." These verses are describing the treachery of all the nations within us and without us in this age. Inwardly it is our treachery against our Lord, and outwardly it is the treachery of the nations against Him, which provides the Lord with the "occasion" He is seeking to destroy our old man and his dominion over us. The Lord always gives Himself an "occasion" which more than justifies His work to deliver us from our bondage to the great harlot, "Babylon the great", and from her "dominion over [us]":

Jdg 14:4  But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

When that time finally does come for the flesh to lose its dominion over us, our old man will always cry out to be spared from his destruction. It is all brought about, within and without, through the treacherous nature of the beast that is mankind (Ecc 3:18). His pride will always precede his destruction, which destruction Isaiah 24 demonstrates:

Isa 24:16  From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
Isa 24:17  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isa 24:18  And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isa 24:19  The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isa 24:20  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isa 24:21  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isa 24:22  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Isa 24:23  Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

"The foundations of the earth do shake" because we discover that everything we have ever been taught by this self-centered whore is a lie. "The earth" in these verses symbolizes worldwide Babylon, the religions of mankind, who refuses to hear the Words of the Lord. It is "that great city wherein our Lord was crucified... Babylon the great" (Rev 11:8) to whom these words are addressed:

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

These words are addressed to the Lord's own apostate people:

Jer 22:1  Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Jer 22:2  And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:

Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Babylon had brought great distress and sighs and groaning to many nations, and now their sighs are ceasing as Babylon is being destroyed. This is a reiteration of what we were told in:

Isa 14:3  And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy travail, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isa 14:4  that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased!
Isa 14:5  The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,
Isa 14:6  That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
Isa 14:7  The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; they break forth into singing.
Isa 14:8  Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.'

How sweet it is to "come out of her" and no longer bear all of her many demanding burdens. How liberating it is to come out from under either the law of Moses or the law of the Gentiles. Both are called in scripture "the elements of this world" (Gal 4:1-3 and 9-10), and both are slaves to "the traditions of men" (Col 2:8):

Gal 3:23  But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25  But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

But we do not come out from under the law without paying the ultimate price, and that price is the death of our old man and the destruction of his entire rebellious kingdom. That is why Isaiah, as a type of you and of me, walked naked before Israel as a sign of what God was doing to Egypt and Ethiopia within us, and that is why we now read these words regarding the fall of Babylon and how that destruction also affects the kingdom of our old man:

We will leave off our study here for today and make this a two part study of these first ten verses of Isaiah. Next week we will do a short review of Isaiah 21:2 and continue our study on these ten verses concerning the fall of Babylon.

Next week we will look behind us and see the loss we have endured to be saved by the fiery words of God, and we will also look ahead at the work of being a watchman which lies yet ahead of us.