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Isaiah
Chapter
47
{Isaiah
looks down a couple hundred years and sees the fall of Babylon in
Daniel's day}
1~~Come
down, and sit in the dust,
O
virgin daughter of Babylon {a woman captive},
sit
on the ground . . .
there
is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldaeans . . .
{she is now humiliated - no throne}
for
you shall no more be called tender and voluptuous.
2~~Take the millstones, and grind meal {slave labor}.
Uncover
your locks
{a veil was a sign of nobility}.
Make
bare the leg, uncover the thigh
{striped naked}
pass
over the rivers
{carry burdens over the river naked}.
3~~Your
nakedness shall be uncovered
{idiom for rape},
yes,
your shame shall be seen.
I
will take vengeance . . .
and
I will not 'see a man'
{no courage . . . Chaldeans were now all cowards
(only exception - the head of their State Department - the former
captive Daniel)}.
4
As for our deliverer/redeemer,
Jehovah/God
of the armies/hosts is His name,
the
Holy One of Israel.
5~~Sit
you silent, and you creep into darkness,
O
daughter of the Chaldeans . . .
for
you shall no more be called,
'The
lady of kingdoms'
{wiped out as a nation}.
6
I was angry/wroth with M people,
I
have polluted My inheritance,
and
given them into your hand.
{the Jews were given over to the Chaldeans to administer the
5th cycle of discipline but the Chaldeans abused this authority}
You
did show them no mercy;
upon
the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
7~~And
you said,
"I
shall be a lady for ever . . .
{meaning they thought the Chaldean Empire would last forever}
so
that you did not store these things in your heart/'right lobe'
{negative to doctrine - no GAP},
neither
did remember the latter end of it.
8~~Therefore
hear now this,
you
who are given to pleasures {Operation Lusts},
who
dwells carelessly . . .
you
say in your heart/'right lobe',
"I
am . . . and none else beside me.
{PRIDE CLUSTER of sins - no need for God}
I
shall not sit as a widow.
{say men won't die in battle - widow also represents a loss of
power}
Neither
shall I know the loss of children
{say the Army can protect the civilians without God's help - loss of
children - represents abandonment - see Revelation 18:7}.
{Demon
possession}
9
But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day:
the
loss of children and widowhood.
They
shall come upon you in their perfection
for
the multitude of your sorceries,
and
for the great abundance of your enchantments.
{If
Evil Permeates the Land - God will Destroy it}
10~~Because
you have trusted {batach} in evil {ra`}.
{batach - originally meant for a wrestler to do a body slam - here
instead of 'slamming their problems' on the Lord they are trusting
in evil - the ways of Satan that are not part of the Righteous
Ways of God}.
You have said, No one sees me.
'Your
wisdom and your knowledge' . . . have seduced you.
{human viewpoint instead of divine viewpoint - creates self-
righteousness instead of the Righteous Ways of God learned
through the intake of His Word}
Therefore
you have said in your 'right lobe'/heart,
"I
. . .
{expression of the arrogance of evil here - they believe only in their
own thoughts and ideas}
and
no one else except me
{never believed in God or had believed but has turned from God now
in reversionism} 11~~
Therefore
shall disaster/evil come upon you
{here is the 5th cycle of discipline on an evil nation}.
You
shall not know from where it rises
and
destruction shall fall upon you.
You shall not be able to overt it.
And
destruction {5th cycle of discipline}
shall
come upon you suddenly . . .
which
you shall not understand
{in ONE night Babylon falls - see Daniel 5 - they did NOT understand
the handwriting on the wall!}.
12~~Stand
now with your enchantments,
and
with the multitude of your sorceries,
wherein
you have labored from your youth.
If
so be you shall be able to profit,
if
so be you may prevail.
{means 'explain THIS situation' . . . but they could not}
13~~You
are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
Let
now the astrologers,
the
stargazers,
the
monthly prognosticators,
stand
up, and save you
from
these things
that
shall come upon you.
{Note: See also Daniel 5:7-8}
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble.
The fire shall burn them.
They
shall not deliver themselves
from
the power of the flame.
There
shall not be a coal to warm at,
nor
fire to sit before it.
15a
Thus shall they be unto you
with
whom you have labored,
even
your merchants,
from
your youth.
15b
They shall wander every one to his quarter.
15c~~None
shall deliver you.
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