Day 205 – A Year in the Bible – Isaiah 13-15
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ISAIAH 13 – FIVE FULFILLED AND FORTY UNFULFILLED PREDICTIONS
(these lists taken from the Dake Study Bible Notes)
Five Predictions–Fulfilled:
1. I will stir up the Medes against them (Babylon, Isa. 13:17).
2. They shall not regard silver or delight in gold (Isa. 13:17).
3. Their bows shall dash the young men to pieces (Isa. 13:18).
4. They shall not have pity on pregnant women.
5. They shall not spare children.
Forty Predictions–Unfulfilled:
1. The second coming of Christ with the saints and angels to destroy the armies of Antichrist, the future king of Babylon, in the day of the Lord (Isa. 13:1-6).
2. The day of the Lord shall come as a destruction from God (Isa. 13:7).
3. All men shall lose courage and be afraid in that day (Isa. 13:7-8).
4. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold upon them, as a woman in travail (Isa. 13:8).
5. They shall be amazed, ashamed, and confused (Isa. 13:8).
6. The day of the Lord will come with a manifestation of the cruel wrath and anger of God to make the land desolate and destroy sinners out of it (Isa. 13:9).
7. The sun, moon, stars, and constellations shall be darkened (Isa. 13:10; Mt. 24:29-31).
8. The world will be punished for its evil ways (Isa. 13:11).
9. The wicked will be punished for their iniquity.
10. The arrogance of the proud shall cease.
11. The haughtiness of the terrible man will be brought low.
12. A man who is saved from destruction in the day of the Lord shall be more valuable than fine gold (Isa. 13:12).
13. The heavens shall shake and the earth shall be moved (Isa. 13:13).
14. The armies of Antichrist shall be so confused that every man will flee for his life (Isa. 13:14).
15. Those that are overtaken in flight shall be killed (Isa. 13:15).
16. Their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes (Isa. 13:16).
17. Their wives shall be ravished.
18. Babylon shall be destroyed in the final destruction in the day of the Lord and will be no more like Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa. 13:19).
19. It shall never be inhabited from the final destruction forever (Isa. 13:20).
20. Arabians and shepherds will never roam there after that.
21. Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there (Isa. 13:21).
22. The houses of Babylon shall be full of wild creatures after that (Isa. 13:21-22).
23. God will have mercy on Jacob and will yet choose Israel in that day (Isa. 14:1).
24. God shall gather Israel and set them in their own land.
25. Many strangers shall be joined to Israel in the day of their restoration.
26. The Gentiles shall bring the Jews to their promised land (Isa. 11:11-16; 14:2; 66:19-21).
27. Israel shall use the many strangers for servants and handmaids (Isa. 14:2).
28. Israel shall capture their captors and rule their oppressors.
29. The Lord will give Israel rest from her centuries of sorrow, fear, and hard bondage among the Gentiles (Isa. 14:3).
30. In the day of Israel’s restoration she shall sing a triumph song over the Antichrist, the future king of Babylon (Isa. 14:3-23).
31. The Antichrist will be destroyed (Isa. 11:4; 14:4; Dan. 7:11; 2Th. 2:8).
32. Babylon will be no more (Isa. 14:4-6; 19:19-22 Rev. 14:8; 16:17-21; 18:1-24).
33. The whole earth will be blessed with rest, peace, and rejoicing when the Messiah reigns (Isa. 14:7-8).
34. Hell will be moved to meet the Antichrist at his descent into it (Isa. 14:9).
35. All the chief wicked dead in hell will taunt the Antichrist for being. weak and defeated (Isa. 14:9-11)
36. The chief wicked dead will also taunt Lucifer for his defeat and being cast into hell as they are (Isa. 14:12-15).
37. The living nations and their rulers shall taunt Antichrist for his defeat and being cast into hell (Isa. 14:16-20).
38. The children of Antichrist and the inhabitants will be destroyed (Isa. 14:21-22).
39. Babylon itself shall be eternally destroyed, becoming desolate forever (Isa. 14:23).
40. God’s purpose to destroy Antichrist will be fully realized (Isa. 14:24-27).
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ISAIAH 14 – THE WHOLE EARTH IS AT REST AND IS QUIET
The Lord Hath Broken the Staff of the Wicked
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. – Isaiah 14:1-8
Lucifer
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. – Isaiah 14:12-15
Is This the Man that Made the Earth to Tremble?
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. – Isaiah 14:16-21
Surely as I Have Thought, So Shall It Come to Pass
For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? – Isaiah 14:22-27
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ISAIAH 15 – THE BURDEN OF MOAB
The burden of Moab.
Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep:
Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba:
on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh:
their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out;
his life shall be grievous unto him.
My heart shall cry out for Moab;
his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar,
an heifer of three years old:
for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up;
for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate:
for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up,
shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab;
the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood:
for I will bring more upon Dimon,
lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land. – Isaiah 15:1-9
Sixteen Predictions (in Isaiah 15) –Fulfilled:
1. Ar (the capital of Moab) will be laid waste in one night and brought to silence (Isa. 15:1).
2. Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence in one night.
3. He (Moab) will go up to the high places to weep (Isa. 15:2).
4. Moab shall howl and cut off their beards and the hair of their heads in mourning.
5. They shall mourn in sackcloth in the streets and on house tops (Isa. 15:3).
6. Everyone in Moab shall howl and weep abundantly.
7. Heshbon and other cities shall also cry and weep (Isa. 15:4).
8. The soldiers of Moab shall be defeated and cry out, for their lives will be grievous to them because of judgment.
9. My (Isaiah’s) heart shall cry out for the calamity of Moab (Isa. 15:5).
10. The fugitives of Moab shall flee to Zoar like a three-year-old heifer, because of the destruction fallen upon them.
11. The waters of Nimrim shall dry up (Isa. 15:6).
12. Crops shall fail in Moab.
13. The surplus of past crops shall be carried away (Isa. 15:7).
14. There will be howling in all the borders of Moab (Isa. 15:8).
15. The blood of battle will color the waters of Dimon (Isa. 15:9).
16. Wild animals shall take their toll of the remnant left in Moab (Isa. 15:9).
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