CHAPTER 27

(712 B.C.)

SATAN DEFEATED AT ARMAGEDDON

¹In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and He shall kill the dragon that is in the sea. (The words, in that day, refer to the Great Tribulation and the Millennium. As well, Leviathan refers to Satan. Victory over this Evil One will take place at the Battle of Armageddon [Rev., Chpt. 19].)

A MILLENNIAL SONG

²In that day sing you unto her, A vineyard of red wine. (This refers to the Millennium, when this Vineyard called Israel will, at long last, bring forth the proper fruit, and in copious amounts!)

³I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. (This guarantees that Israel will never again wander, but rather will walk close to the Lord, and forever.)

⁴Fury is not in Me: who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. (The anger of the Lord toward Judah has been eternally abated, because they have accepted Him as Saviour and Lord. As well, He will allow no briers and thorns to grow in this Vineyard. In effect, it will be a pure Vineyard.)

⁵Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me, and he shall make peace with Me. (Now the Lord addresses the nations of the world that have previously thrown in their lot with the Antichrist. The Lord will invite these nations to make peace with Me. Every indication is that they will!)

⁶He shall cause them who come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. (Israel being now in her rightful place will insure the blessing of the entirety of the world [Ps. 67].)

⁷Has He smitten him, as He smote those who smote him? or is he dead according to the slaughter of them who are killed by Him? (The question of this Verse is: Did God chasten Israel in the same measure that He smote her oppressors? The following Verse supplies the answer. It is No!

⁸In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind. (The words, in measure, refer to the purging of Israel, but not to its destruction. The words, when it shoots forth, refer to the stroke of judgment which was for correction and not for destruction. The rough wind was tempered as well as the tempestuous and violent east wind.

Israel is the mystery people of the ages. By all logical accounts, they should have gone into the dark night long ago; nevertheless, despite the ferocious attacks by the enemy, they have remained a viable people. It is because of this one Verse!)

⁹By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the Altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. (The cleansing effect of this purging of the Vine is declared. In this Verse, the word fruit means results. The result of chastening is that iniquity is purged and sin taken away.

This is not necessarily the expiation of guilt by the Atonement of Christ, for that has already been done, but it is the purging of a branch already in the True Vine [Zech. 13:1; Jn., Chpt. 15].)

¹⁰Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. (The defensed city is Jerusalem. Isaiah now comes back to his present day, and speaks of the coming destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. This would happen a little over a hundred years later. Jerusalem was destroyed again in A.D. 70. And even though it was inhabited, and has been from then until now, still, for the last 2,000 years, as far as God is concerned, spiritually it is left like a wilderness.)

¹¹When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He Who made them will not have mercy on them, and He Who formed them will show them no favour. (A little over a hundred years after this Prophecy, Israel was broken off, exactly as was prophesied by Isaiah.)

ISRAEL WILL BE REGATHERED TO MOUNT ZION

¹²And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you Children of Israel. (The words, in that day, as usual, speak of the Millennium. After Israel accepts Jesus as their Saviour and Lord, which they will immediately after the Second Coming, there will be a great migration of Jews from all over the world to Israel, and with great joy.)

¹³And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the Holy Mount at Jerusalem. (The great trumpet will be the Jubilee Trump, summoning all Israel to the Feast of Tabernacles, which will be celebrated to and with the Messiah at Jerusalem. When the trumpet blows, the outcasts will finally come home!)