Section 4 -Babylon Part 2
Chapter 13 & 14 Part 1

Babylon at it’s greatest: Walls 15 miles square (225 sq. miles) - over 300 feet tall & 80 feet wide at the top. Great wealth, beauty & culture

Chapter 13: 1 - The near future of Babylon
Babylon’s burden - The burden they will place upon Israel
Babylon’s burden that which God will bring upon them because of the burden they were going to place on God’s tender plant - Daniel 1, Isaiah 45
Babylon’s burden - Their final destruction in The Day Of The Lord” (13:6)
Isaiah recorded what he saw - in a vision - something that would happen many years in the future -
13:2 - Let everyone know and be assured what is recorded here is going to come to pass, They are going to go into the gates of the nobles! Who is going into these gates - 13:3 the ones The Lord has set apart and commanded to bring His burden upon Babylon 13:4 A thundering army from a united confederacy of nations under one leader will come from the mountains. 13:5 This army is the weapon of the Lord to bring down the great nation of Babylon.

Isaiah 45:
God anointed Cyrus - (sanctified 13:3) to be king of the Medes and Persians to come and break the backs of the Babylonian empire. He would give him untold treasures (45:3)- Babylon would have the wealth of Assyria, Syria, Israel, Judah, Cyrus would have the wealth of Babylon ) and it would the Lord would make it easy for him to conquer Babylon (45:2) The Lord would go before Cyrus.

Is He doing to this to make Cyrus great, NO, but for Jacob’s sake - His people, His temple, His City and above all His glory. (45:5-8)
45: 9-10 - Woe to anyone, any being or any place that think they can come before THE CREATOR on equal terms and challenge His Omnipotence!!!

Why can they Isaiah, Judah & Jerusalem be assured this would come to pass - Only The Lord knows the future! - Isaiah 45: 11-12; 46:8-10

Did it come to pass - Daniel 5:8 - 31 539 B.C. The uncle of Cyrus, Darius the Mede, took the city in one night
What did Darius do - Daniel & The lions den Darius dies in about two years and Cyrus has it all.
Why did God anoint Cyrus Ezra 1:1-5
God knows the beginning from the end because. Do not forget - He still knows today’s future.
Isaiah 13:6-19 - Babylon’s far future - “The Day Of The Lord“. When God brings His vengeance upon the last Babylon (13:17-18) - Is God done using the Medes to punish Babylon?
Isaiah 13:19-22 Babylon’s near future - destruction. The second Babylon (Revelation 17 & 18) has the same future at the first
The message - Isa 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!….. Babylon - Satan -

De 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people
Time Line
2140 B.C. - Tower of Babel

1050 - 930 B.C. - Kings Saul, David & Solomon - united kingdom

930 B.C. - The kingdom divided

884 B.C. - Assyria becomes the world power

745 - 680 B.C.- Isaiah’s ministry - Assyria world dominate power

722 B.C. - Israel taken captive by Assyria

612 B.C. - Babylon ends Assyrian domination

586 B.C. - Judah taken captive by Babylon - Temple destroyed

539 B.C. - Darius (Mede) with Cyrus (Persia) enter Babylon - Isaiah records the destruction of Babylon by Cyrus in Chapter 45 over 100 years before the rise of Babylon to world dominance. Long before the Medes were even heard of.

515 B.C. - Temple is built - allowed and provided for by Cyrus


Isa 45:11-12 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Isa 46:8-10 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Gen 10:6-10; 11:1-3; Daniel 1:1-2; 4:30; Revelation 14:8; 16:19; chapters17 & 18; Jer Chapters 50 & 51 (51:58)

Assyria was founded by colonists from Babylon and for many centuries was subject to, or in conflict with, Babylon.
Assyria was a world empire from around 884 B.C. to the fall of Nineveh, its capital, in 612 B.C.
It was the Babylonian Empire that broke the power of Assyria, and, in its westward sweep, destroyed Judah and conquered Egypt. The Empire's capital was in Babylon and as a world power it lasted from 612 B.C. to 536 B.C.
Cyrus, king of Persia, conquered Babylon in 539 B.C.

At the time of Isaiah the prophet Assyria was the dominant power in the world and Babylon was a dependency of Assyria. Isaiah sang of the Fall of Babylon one hundred years BEFORE its rise in 612 B.C. (Isaiah 13:1, 13:19, 14:22). Babylon's splendor as the Queen city of the pre-Christian world, the "glory of kingdoms" and "the city of gold" (Isaiah 13:19, 14:4) was clearly envisioned. Babylon's fall is also pictured in detail, naming the unknown Medes as destroyers of Babylon (Isaiah 13:17-19). Isaiah prophesied that Babylon was to supersede Assyria (Isaiah 14:25), that Media shall then supersede Babylon (Isaiah 13:17); and that ultimately Babylon shall pass away forever (Isaiah 12:19-22, 14:22-23, Daniel 5:31). It was Babylon, the oppressor of God's Old Testament people, that would give its name to the Apostate Church found in Revelation 17.
The Persian Army took the Babylonian empire without a battle during the days of Babylon's King Nabonidas and his first son King Belshazar.

Chapter 14:1 - Why is for there for - It refers to “The Day Of The Lord” in 13:6-22
Revelation 6:17 -