Insight and Encouragement

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

The prophet sees a day where the city of Jerusalem will face, tumult, trampling and terror. The

people who relied both on the heritage and the walls are about to see it all fail. Jerusalem is a city

in those days built on three hills and three valleys. Isaiah sees the walls being breached by battering

rams. He sees the arrows, chariots, horsemen at the gates and armies breaching the walls. He sees

the defenses being broken down and all the weapons of Judah depleted.

He sees the special water sources built during the times of Hezekiah being depleted all because the

King and the people did not look to the Lord. They relied on other empires, their own cleverness, and

resources which failed them completely. They had no regard for the sovereignty of the Lord who had

warned them numerous times over the centuries what would happen. As Jonathon Edwards wrote, “it

is terrible to fall into the hands of an angry God.”

Isaiah now sees what is going to happen in the future. He sees the people going to their housetops to

get a better view of what is about to happen. The city is full of noise, tumult, and drunkenness. Most

of those who face the Babylonians were not killed by died by starvation or became refugees. The

leaders tried to flee like Zedekiah, but they were caught. They were then transported to Babylon or

different places within the empire.

Isaiah and the Lord are having a moment. Isaiah because he saw what was going to happen and the

Lord because over and over through the prophets and the words they gave the people were warned and

Now the full wrath of God was about to be unleased. God is not mocked whatever we sow we will reap.

This is a powerful warning for the people of today. Get your house in order because the wrath of God

Is release it will not stop until it has done all the Lord wants it to do.

The prophet sees a watchman. This person sees chariots, camels, horses, and donkeys with riders.

He advises the watchman to be alert. The lookout shouted. Day after day he stood watch when he saw.

the chariot driver, he heard the driver reply that Babylon has fallen. Their idols, images and gods had

fallen. The very things they trusted had failed them. The people had been crushed like wheat on a

threshing floor. This was a word from the Lord Almighty. No one is greater than He. He is the God and

defender of Israel. This same God will defend his people in this time as well.