Here is predicted the eclipsing of Tyre’s power by the Babylonian surge over Assyria. The seventy years, as with Israel’s captivity, was generally concurrent with the rule of the Babylonian dynasty headed up by Nebuchadnezzar and his sons (609-539 B.C.), and the captivity of Judah. There are other possible ways of computing Tyre’s pause, but this one seems generally to fit the facts best.

23. Isaiah 24. What clues do we have that this chapter is not talking about the “whole earth” of Isaiah’s day, namely, the Assyrian and/or Babylonian Empires?

• V. 21. “… the Lord will punish the host of heaven on high…” Demons and their chief will be thrown into the Lake of Fire.
• V. 23. The moon and sun will refuse to shine, as we read in other end-time passages.
• V. 23. “… the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem.” Hasn’t happened. Will happen on that final day!

24. Isaiah 25-26. Babylon is gone. A “people” are glorifying God. What clues as to the timing of this prophecy?

This word sounds much like the rejoicing and the awe going on in Revelation 18, where “Babylon is fallen, is fallen.” That is clue one. Clue two: Death will be swallowed up for all time. Three: All tears wiped away. Four: The “reproach” of the people of God will be removed. Do we need any more evidence? Isaiah saw the end of history, the beginning of the Millennium!

25. Isaiah 26:14 vs 26:19. “The dead will not live… you have punished and destroyed them…Your dead will live, their corpses will rise…” Are the cultists right? There is no eternal judgment for the wicked, they just die and that’s it?

Context. The “C” word among cultists. Look at the context. We’re talking Millennium here. For 1,000 years, the wicked dead do not live. Their wickedness has been punished, they are out of sight, they will not bother us, who will be resurrected at the outset of this period . But the same Spirit that spoke through Isaiah, spoke through Jesus, when He spoke of a resurrection of life, and a resurrection of damnation. I would not be surprised to find that He had Isaiah’s words on His mind there in John 5:29.

In Revelation, John puts the final explanation in place in chapter 20, verses 4-5. He lays out in crystal clear language that the righteous dead are raised to reign with Christ for 1,000 years, and after that period the un-righteous dead are raised.

Oh. church, we must look at all the pertinent Scriptures before making judgment on an issue.

26. Isaiah 27:1. What serpent will be punished “in that day”?

“In that day” needs to be interpreted before anything else will matter. There are no chapter divisions in the original. That means we have been talking about “that day” for several chapters, and that day can only be the Millennial Day. Babylon is destroyed. The Lord is reigning. His dead are resurrected. All the inhabitants of the earth are punished by the returning Messiah. The one thing missing is the punishment of Satan, and here it is in Isaiah 27. I did not find a commentator who wished to go this route, so this one’s on me. Both Isaiah and John see a serpent being punished. A dragon is mentioned in both books, as well as a serpent. In both books, the creature lives in the sea.

Chapter 27 goes on to speak of a fabulously successful Israel, filling not only its own land, but the whole world, with fruit. In that same time period we see Egypt and Assyria (revived) again, both of them coming to Jerusalem to worship God.