Isaiah chapter 2:12-22
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Isaiah chapter 2:12-22
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts
[Shall come] upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up--
And it shall be brought low--
The Lord of Hosts is Jesus, leading the calvalry (the Raptured church on white horses), the angel armies, and the infantry, which I surmise is made from the resurrected bones of Ezekiel 37:
Ezekiel 37:10 So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.
These armies are coming to defeat the Antichrist. There are three valleys of battle mentioned, which may refer to battles at three different times, or one battle in three locations. More on this here.
Back to Isaiah 2; the following verses seems to indicate a great tsunami. This is one of the effects of a solar micronova, when the geomagnetic field drops completely, causing massive earthquakes, generating tsunamis, and tilting the earth on its axis (a new set of poles) so that deserts bloom again.
A tsunami would certainly be one explanation for how every valley shall be exalted and every hill made low (Isaiah 40:4). Read the following and envision an inexorable wall of water that washes in from the Mediterranean, washing away every good or evil work of man ("all our deeds are as filthy rags"—i.e., nothing man creates will survive this).
Note that this will happen during a time when the people of Israel will have been hauled off into captivity again, scattered among the nations as slaves in the second half of the Tribulation, serving God's purpose of saving His people from the tsunami but also punishing them for their idol worship. At the same time, the remnant of Judah, those who have read Matthew 24 and flee at the halfway point of the Tribulation, are kept safe from the disasters in a mountain hideout by God. Everything lifted up will be brought low:
13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon [that are] high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
14 Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills [that are] lifted up;
15 Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;
16 Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.
About those ships of Tarshish (Europe), here’s a quick forward look to Isaiah 23:1 The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, So that there is no house, no harbor; From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
The digitally tracked supply chain now being installed on land and sea while we are being distracted with kibbitzing and kvetching (and deception, as Jesus warned us in Matthew 24:4) is one focal point of the End Times, and appears in Revelation 8:9 and 18:19, among other prophetic verses.
17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
18 But the idols He shall utterly abolish.
Let the chilling fierceness of v.18 sink into your soul. Our God is a jealous God.
Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness [of anything] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me
The focus of the zoom lens now changes as Isaiah looks more closely at what the humans do in response when faced with these mighty disasters:
19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the earth,
From the terror of the LORD
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
Next, Isaiah emphasizes that those personal gods, which may or may not be connected to an artificial intelligence network, will prove to be utterly useless. What they relied upon to save them...cannot save them.
20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, [each] for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
Moles and bats live in caves, and they will find these idols no more useful than the people casting them away. Here is Isaiah’s closer look at the tunnels, caves, and bunkers that are today under construction and will continue to be built over the next decade:
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the LORD
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
And here is the conclusion to verse 5 (O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD):
22 Sever yourselves from such a man,
Whose breath [is] in his nostrils;
For of what account is he?
Isaiah's plea to the house of Jacob is to abandon faith in a man (any man, but specifically the Antichrist). How could anyone compare the power and glory of the Lord Jesus in His second coming to the technological power of artificial intelligence wielded by a mortal human who relies on God for the very oxygen he needs to live?
Next up: A Brief Foray into Forensics
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