Judgment on the Whole Earth. Isa 24:1-13
II. THE BURDENS OF THE NATIONS, Isaiah 13-27
World-Judgment and the Redemption of Judah, Isaiah 24-27
20. What three sins are especially noted as provoking the judgments of God?
JUDGMENT ON THE WHOLE EARTH
Behold, the LORD lays waste to the earth, devastates it, twists and distorts its face and scatters its inhabitants.
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].
The earth will be completely laid waste and utterly pillaged, for the LORD has spoken this word.
The earth dries up and crumbles away, the world dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
The earth also is polluted by its inhabitants, because they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. [Gen_9:1-17; Deu_29:20]
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. [Rom_1:20]
The new wine mourns, The vine decays; All the merry-hearted sigh and groan.
The mirth of the timbrels (tambourines) ceases, The noise of those who rejoice ends, The joy of the harp ceases.
They do not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.
There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All jubilation is darkened, The joy of the earth is banished.
Isa 24:12 Horrible desolation is left in the city, And the gate is battered into ruins.
For so it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over [and only a little of the fruit remains].
20. What three sins are especially noted as provoking the judgments of God?
THE DESOLATION OF A GUILTY WORLD
This and the three following chapters form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about to desolate the land, because the inhabitants had transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Primarily it describes the experiences of Palestine under the successive invasions from the Euphrates valley, first of Nineveh and then of Babylon. There is a mysterious connection between the condition of a man’s soul and the response of surrounding nature. The very vineyards would sigh in sad accord with the prevailing misery and sin, Isa_24:7-9; and in the great city silence would reign in streets decimated by plague and war, Isa_24:10-12. Both in the Old and the New Testament the blessings of sufficiency and comfort are the fruits of holy living; whereas, sooner or later, evil overtakes wrong-doing. “Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed,” is always true.
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