WE WIN!

 

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 13:1 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 2 "Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger-Those who rejoice in My exaltation." 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts musters The army for battle. 5 They come from a far country, From the end of heaven-The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

 6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

 

A burden is something you need to unload. Here, Isaiah cannot help but speak what the Lord has shown him, and He has shown him the “day of the Lord.”

 

Bad news for Babylon! Babylon is a real city of course, but it is meant to symbolize all those who have rebelled against God and rejected Christ. In the Book of Revelation Babylon is portrayed as the mother of all harlots and all abominations committed on the earth!  Re 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Isaiah is painting a picture of the final battle when God’s angels (mighty ones) and saints (sanctified ones) utterly defeat the devil, his demons, and those who have rejected Christ.  Re 18:21 tells us: Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.

 

This scenario is what we find in  1Th 4:16 -18, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

 

Isaiah is talking about something every Christian knows…..in the end, we win! God is victorious. Take comfort from his words, and for those who reject Christ to the end….be prepared for an eternity of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.