Isa 13:1, The burden against Babylon which ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ SAW.
What amazes me about Isaiah is that GOD reveals HIS coming judgement on Babylon, about 100 years after Isaiah’s death; then talks of the judgement coming to the world thousands of years later!
Isa 13:4-5, … THE LORD OF HOSTS MUSTERS THE ARMY FOR BATTLE. They come from a far country, From the end of heaven—THE LORD AND HIS WEAPONS OF INDIGNATION, TO DESTROY THE WHOLE LAND.
Babylon was used by GOD as a Rod to punish HIS own people, Israel. Now judgement is coming to Babylon! In the book of Daniel chapter 5 speaks of this!
Dan 5:28, 30 PERES: YOUR KINGDOM HAS BEEN DIVIDED, AND GIVEN TO THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.” That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
Isa 13:9-10, BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And HE WILL DESTROY ITS SINNERS FROM IT. For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
Now Isaiah is focused on the DAY OF THE LORD. The LORD comes with fierce wrath upon the world, and signs will be seen in the heavens above! The seven-year tribulation!
Mat 24:29, “IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE DAYS THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT; THE STARS WILL FALL FROM HEAVEN, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Isa 13:11-12, “I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD FOR ITS EVIL, And the wicked for their iniquity; I WILL HALT THE ARROGANCE OF THE PROUD, AND WILL LAY LOW THE HAUGHTINESS OF THE TERRIBLE. I WILL MAKE A MORTAL MORE RARE THAN FINE GOLD, A MAN MORE THAN THE GOLDEN WEDGE OF OPHIR.
Today, the world has about 8 Billion living souls, but the DAY OF THE LORD will destroy the vast majority of them! HE CAME AS A LAMB, BUT NOW HE COMES AS A LION!
Psa 110:5-6, The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.
HE is a GOD of LOVE, but HE is also JUST and righteous! HIS wrath is near! BE READY FOR JUDGEMENT IS COMING!