ISAIAH - CHAPTERS 13-23
These chapters include prophecies concerning the surrounding nations at various times. The first prophecy is against Babylon.
ISAIAH 13: PROPHECY OF LAST DAYS
Punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. (See Revelation 17 and 18)
v.1-4 Prophecy regarding Babylon in these end times. Worldwide wars are one of the signs of Jesus' second coming.
v.5-10 Description of Great Tribulation period. This punishment is against the iniquity of the evil world, not the church.
v.13 The shaking of the earth could be one of the ways God restores it to its original state.
v.14 The Babylonian invasion (near prophetic fulfillment).
v.17-19 Isaiah predicts the Medes' destruction of the Babylonian kingdom before the Medes even became a strong nation.
ISAIAH 14: CHRIST'S KINGDOM ON EARTH WITH ISRAEL RESTORED
v.1-8 At the end of the age Israel will be restored and exalted.
v.9-11 Satan will end up in Hell, and when you see him you will be amazed.
v.12-14 Lucifer's five "I will's"-the beginning of sin and rebellion in the universe, as he opposed God's will.
By the Holy Spirit God will conform us back to our original state, by making us again into the image of Jesus Christ.
v.15-17 Satan's end is destruction.
v.24-27 The awesome sovereignty of God-His purpose and plans are always accomplished.
ISAIAH 15: GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST MOAB
v.2 A song of great mourning. (Moab today is Jordan.)
ISAIAH 16: MOAB REFUSES SANCTUARY TO ISRAEL'S FUGITIVES
Isaiah is speaking to the nations that will be in battle with the Assyrians.
v.6-12 Immediate condition of Moab is pride. Their vineyards are to be destroyed by conquering armies.
v.13-14 Within three years Assyria conquered Moab.
ISAIAH 17: DAMASCUS AND HER ALLIES FALL
v.1-7 All the inhabitants are destroyed by Assyria, but those who remain turn to God.
v.8-11 Because the Israelites had forgotten God and gone after false idols, God allowed Assyria to be used as His tool to punish them.
v.12-14 Foreshadow of God's judgment against Assyria.
ISAIAH 18: WOE TO ETHIOPIA
v.1-2 Ethiopia had come to Jerusalem to make a confederacy against Assyria. God did not want this confederacy.
v.3-7 Isaiah is saying that God will cut down Assyria. There is no need to have a confederacy.
ISAIAH 19: EGYPT'S DECLINE AND COLLAPSE
v.1-5 Civil war in Egypt.
v.6-11 Prediction of Aswan Dam and the ecological disasters created by the damming of the Nile River.
v.21-22 Egypt will become a religious center for the worship of the Lord.
v.24-25 In the day of the Lord, Egypt, Assyria (modern-day Iraq), and Israel will be joined together in harmony.
ISAIAH 20: IMPENDING CONQUEST OF EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA
v.1-6 Assyria conquers and leads their captives away in shame. This is why Isaiah told Israel not to look to a confederacy to stand against the Assyrians, but to look to the Lord.
ISAIAH 21: FOUR BURDENS ANTICIPATING THE MEDES' INVASION
v.1-2 Prediction of Medes and Elam (Persia) destroying Babylon.
v.3-4 Isaiah's physical reaction to the vision.
v.4-10 Circumstances of the invasion and fall of Babylon. Far fulfillment: destruction in Rev.14:8.
v.13-17 Saudi Arabia will take up the side of Israel when Russia begins to invade. Immediate prediction: within one year Arabia was conquered by Sargon (716 BC).
ISAIAH 22: THE BURDEN OF THE VALLEY OF VISION
v.1-4 Isaiah sees the destruction of Jerusalem.
v.5-10 Jerusalem's preparations and precautions against the invasion of Assyria.
v.11 The Jews have tried to fortify themselves, but have not looked to God for their protection.
v.12 God calls them to consecrate themselves unto Him.
v.13-14 God's indictment against them is that their attitude towards Him will not change until they die (near fulfillment).
v.15-21 Shebna and Eliakim were two men of state in Israel. Eliakim is "God's choice" and Shebna is "moved on." Far fulfillment: Shebna is a type of Antichrist, and even as he will come and be hailed, he will be destroyed and the true Messiah will come. Eliakim is a type of Jesus Christ.
v.22-23 Jesus picks this up when He talks to church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3. Jesus takes these words and applies them to Himself in Revelation 3.
ISAIAH 23: THE FALL OF TYRE
v.1-16 Tyre is laid waste by the Chaldeans.
v.17-18 The Lord will use Tyre again to supply the Kingdom of the Lord.
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