The Redemption of Israel. Isa 27:1-13
II. THE BURDENS OF THE NATIONS, Isaiah 13-27
World-Judgment and the Redemption of Judah, Isaiah 24-27
25. What nations are meant by the “swift serpent” and the “crooked serpent?” What was to be their fate? How is the Lord’s care for His people symbolized?
THE REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL
In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy], Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
In that day [it will be said of the redeemed nation of Israel], “A vineyard of wine, sing in praise of it!
“I, the LORD, am its Keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will harm it, I guard it night and day.
“I have no wrath. Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle, I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.
“Or let him (Israel) cling to My strength and rely on My protection [My stronghold], Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me.”
In the generations to come Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the surface of the world with fruit. [Hos_14:1-6; Rom_11:12]
Like the striking by Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?
You contended with them by exile, by driving them away [from Canaan]; He has expelled them with His fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
Therefore through this the wickedness [the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing] of Jacob (Israel) will be atoned for and forgiven; And this will be the full price [that God requires] for taking away his sin: When Israel makes all the stones of the [pagan] altars like crushed chalk stones; When the Asherim and the incense altars will not stand.
For the fortified city is isolated, A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.
When its branches are dry, they are broken off; The women come and make a fire with them. For they are not a people of understanding, Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them, And He who created them will not be gracious to them.
In that day the LORD will thresh [out His grain] from the flowing stream of the River [Euphrates] to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.
It will come to pass in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost and perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem. [Zec_14:16; Mat_24:31; Rev_11:15]
25. What nations are meant by the “swift serpent” and the “crooked serpent?” What was to be their fate? How is the Lord’s care for His people symbolized?
GOD’S CARE FOR HIS VINEYARD
Throughout these chapters we must remember that the doom of Babylon and the restoration of God’s people are symbolical of other events, for which the world is preparing. Then Babylon the Great shall give place to the Holy City, which comes down out of heaven from God. Egypt and Babylon are represented by the leviathan, a general term applicable to any great water animal. The one had its Nile, the other its Euphrates. Parallel with the destruction of our foes is God’s care of His own people. The Church is His vineyard. We do not keep Him, but He, us. Not for a moment does He relax His care. Those who oppose His purposes are trampled down as briars beneath the booted foot. In Isa_5:6 we have a prevision of the ultimate mission of the Hebrew race.
Note the difference in Isa_27:7-11 between punishment and chastisement. The former is irremediable and destructive, the latter is always in measure. The rough wind is stayed in the day of the east wind. Its object is to purge away our sins. After the captivity idolatry ceased out of Israel. How tenderly God gathers His wanderers-one by one as hand-picked fruit; even those who had wandered farthest and were ready to perish!
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