Posted on 01/10/2020 12:30:19 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The "Little Apocalypse" of the Old Testament is found in Isaiah 24. It reveals the Apocalypse of Revelation (on a macro level); the final earthly judgments of the tribulation prior to the Messianic Kingdom called the Millennium (Jesus Christ rules and reigns from Jerusalem for a thousand years). The Apocalypse (also called the Tribulation) is brought upon the earth because man has defiled it.
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
How has man defiled the earth? In three ways according to Isaiah...
1. Transgressed the Laws
2. Changed the Ordinance
3. Broken the Everlasting covenant
The first is obvious, man has transgressed the laws by breaking God's 10 commandments. Man has worshiped other gods, taken the Lord's name in vain (in almost every Hollywood Movie), murdered, committed adultry, etc. The second is similar to the first in that man has changed God's ordinances or laws by instituting new laws that supercede or repeal the laws of Moses (e.g. abortion, homosexual marriage, legislated socialism, etc.) The third reason is not as obvious without a little digging. Man has broken God's everlasting covenant that God made with Noah (and all of us) after the flood.
After the Deluge (flood in Noah's day that destroyed all living things except Noah, his family, and the animals), God made a covenant with Noah, Noah's sons, the wives, the animals, and all of us (being from their loins). This covenant was called the "Everlasting Covenant" or the "Noahic Covenant." All of us have bound by it ever since. It was the first dispensation of Human Governance since creation. Man was now responsible for governing the world for God. Under this covenant, man's relationship to the earth was confirmed, God promised never again to send a flood to judge the entire earth, and God's promise never again to destroy all living things from the earth. Additionally, the Everlasting Covenant contains explicit and implicit commands that God gave to mankind.
Genesis 8: 21 ...neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. [...] 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. [...] 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. [...] 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh;
Isaiah 24 reveals that at a certain point in the near future, man will have done the unthinkable and crossed the point of no return (if we are not already there.) He will have hopelessly broken the covenant that God made with us after the flood bringing the horrifying judgments (spoiled earth, empty earth, wasted earth, upside down earth, inhabitants scattered abroad, etc.) mentioned above. It also reveals the earth is morally sensitive and groans and travails because of man's sin (Romans 8), culminating at a 3.5 to 7 year period called the Tribulation. My intention in this series is to discuss each of the explicit and implicit commands God gave us in the "Everlasting Covenant" from Genesis 9 back to Genesis 1. I also want to expose how our current world has broken them. God's commands are as follows...
1. Denial of Creation
2. Denial of the Flood
3. Appropriation of the Rainbow
4. Killing of Children
5. Outlawing Death Penalty
6. Restricting the Eating of Meat
7. Climate Change Hysteria
8. Genetic Corruption
9. Denial of the Fall of Man
10. Denial of Manhood and Womanhood
11. Denial of Roles for Man and Woman
12. Amplification of Satan's Garden Sermon
Stay tuned...
So true Jan- everything in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, they repudiate...Judgment is coming
So true Jan- everything in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, they repudiate...Judgment is coming
So true Jan- everything in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, they repudiate...Judgment is coming
So we’re all hosed even if we’ve been good?
Fine, then.
I’ma go rob some banks and tear up Las Vegas.
Thanks for the inspiration.
‘Judgment is coming’
is that the same judgment that’s been coming any day for the past couple thousand years...? pardon me while I yawn...
Just your flesh. Like a change of clothes. Lol.
in his image
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