seekeroftruth
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Isaiah 34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen;
pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!
2 The Lord is angry with all nations;
his wrath is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy[a] them,
he will give them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
their dead bodies will stink;
the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
4 All the stars in the sky will be dissolved
and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
like withered leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,
the people I have totally destroyed.
6 The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,
it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen will fall with them,
the bull calves and the great bulls.
Their land will be drenched with blood,
and the dust will be soaked with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her dust into burning sulfur;
her land will become blazing pitch!
10 It will not be quenched night or day;
its smoke will rise forever.
From generation to generation it will lie desolate;
no one will ever pass through it again.
the great owl[d] and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom
the measuring line of chaos
and the plumb line of desolation.
12 Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,
all her princes will vanish away.
13 Thorns will overrun her citadels,
nettles and brambles her strongholds.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
a home for owls.
14 Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures will also lie down
and find for themselves places of rest.
15 The owl will nest there and lay eggs,
she will hatch them, and care for her young
under the shadow of her wings;
there also the falcons will gather,
each with its mate.
16 Look in the scroll of the Lord and read:
None of these will be missing,
not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth that has given the order,
and his Spirit will gather them together.
17 He allots their portions;
his hand distributes them by measure.
They will possess it forever
and dwell there from generation to generation.
a. Isaiah 34:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.
b. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
c. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
d. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain
This is from bible-studys.org.
This section of Isaiah’s prophecy, is again apocalyptic in nature. The object of God’s wrath will be the “nations, the earth,” and “the world.” Here the prophet depicts the worldwide carnage of the Battle of Armageddon when God’s “indignation” and “fury” are poured out on “all nations” (goylm, Gentiles).
So great is this destruction that “mountains shall be melted” and the “host of heaven shall be dissolved” (i.e. melt or vanish). So severe is this devastation that the atmospheric “heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll.” This apocalyptic judgment will be so cataclysmic that it will affect the earth and its atmosphere, and it will usher in “new heavens and a new earth”.
“The day of the Lord’s vengeance” refers to the Battle of Armageddon (Rev. 16:16). This is the final devastation of the world that culminates at the end of the Tribulation period. Day of the Lord) (Joel 2:2; Zeph. 1:15; Zech. 14:1; Mal. 4:5); “time of trouble”: (Daniel 12:1); “time of Jacob’s trouble”: (Jer. 30:7); “the wrath to come”: (1 Thess. 1:10); “wrath of the Lamb”: )Rev. 6:16-17).
Prolonged exposure of dead corpses was and is repulsive and disgraceful.
In Ezekiel, we read of just such a battle where 5/6 of Gog in the land of Magog will be destroyed. There will be so many dead it will take 7 months to bury them. The blood will run to the horses’ bridle in this great destruction.
This type of destruction really comes from God. The stink will be so bad from this battle; the people will have to put stoppers on their noses. The battle in Ezekiel is speaking of the battle of Armageddon.
“Lambs … goats … rams … unicorns (wild oxen), … bulls”: Since the nations had not repented and obeyed God’s way of sacrifice for sins, they became the sacrificial penalty for their own sins.
Gods judgment is to reduce the nations to a state of perpetual volcanic waste.
Verses 11-17: The desolation and depopulation of Idumea (Edom), is symbolic of God’s judgment on the entire Gentile world. The depopulation of the world by God’s judgment is emphasized by the words “confusion” and “emptiness” which are also used (in Genesis 1:2), to describe the earth as empty and lifeless.
Verses 11-13; pelican … owl … raven … ostriches”: The presence of unclean birds was a sign of desolation and wilderness. Similar symbolism portrays the final state of Babylon in the future (Rev. 18:2; Zep. 2:13-14).
Thus, the great civilizations have been reduced to a “habitation of dragons” (tanim, “jackals” or “scavengers”). For “cormorant” read “pelican”; for “bittern” read “porcupine”; for “satyr” read wild goat.” The “book of the Lord” refers to God’s inspired prophecies predicting that such a day will certainly come to pass.
All this stuff seems bad but vague..... I totally understand that God is going to wipe Edom clean..... but I am asking for a reason to mention that one particular place as an example..... this answer came from the easy English site.Relations between the nations called Israel and Edom were always uneasy. This was because of the strain between Jacob (later called Israel) and his brother Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites (see Genesis 25:30 and 32:11).
Bozrah was the Edomite capital (see Genesis 36:32, 33). It had strong defences. Its situation was in the mountains, south-east of the Dead Sea. But God would destroy Bozrah completely (see Jeremiah 49:13).
Edom and Bazrah are modern day Jordan.
Hurricane Dorian is still a cat 5 storm this morning. It's almost stopped.... moving only 5 mph..... it's over the Bahamas rain will be measured by the foot.... winds are like a tornado going only 1 mile per hour. I can walk faster than that. According to what I just read here..... God's going to bring this destruction to the whole world. Humans will loose their homes..... humans will loose everything they possess..... they will be reduced to relying on God..... God said He was done flooding the whole world..... He didn't say anything about wind, fire, earthquakes..... He constructed it so He knows how to deconstruct it.
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