Today: [Isaiah 24] The Emptying Out of the Land. In chapter 24 of Isaiah the prophet predicts the complete and total removal of the people from both the southern and northern kingdoms. He prophesies this at a time of prosperity and relative safety. It was not a message that anyone wanted to hear either in the king’s palace or the common man in the street. When we read such things even relating to our day we wonder why would God allow such things to happen? Yet we see that once the decimation of these nations takes place that once again the people return to the Lord and serve Him as He deserves to be served and honored. The chapter ends with an apocalyptic insight of the day when Jesus returns physically to the earth to rule the nations with an iron rod. This is a teaching that is little emphasized today but is strongly present in the prophesying of Isaiah.
