Chapter 24 Part 1 - The Lord Maketh The Earth Empty These four chapters begin a new section.
24:1 - The LORD Maketh empty
25:1 - The LORD Deserves worship
26:1 - The LORD Provides salvation
27:1 - The LORD Punishes
Isa 24:1 ¶ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
The empty earth .
Gen 1:2 - Gen 8:13-14 - The end of the Ttribulation: - here we see a
physically empty earth
Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an
astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.
For seventy years the land and Jerusalem was emptied. Emptied of
wealth, and the people.
Isa 24:2-3 - the land will be so empty that every one both great and
small, wealthy and poor, royal and common will be in the same
situation -What benefit is there in being a king when there is
nothing or nobody to rule over.
Isa 24:4-5 the land itself will groan, suffer because of the sins of
the people.
Isa 24:6 - The curse cover the land - The land would set idol for 70
years. If the land that was tilled be not cared for 70 years what
would cover the land. (Gen 3) - worthless plants, worthlessness
Isa 24:7-12 describes the city - Jerusalem - no rejoicing, no more
wine, no more singing, houses shut up, the gates broken down.
(Isaiah 22:2, 32:13,14) Lamentations 2:15 The Jerusalem was to be
The City Of God’s Joy - God could no longer Joy in His people of His
city. - Emptiness.
Numbers 13 - They were given a land that truly flowed with milk and
honey, clusters of grapes one man could not carry. They were given
vineyards they did not have to plant, farm ground they did not have
to clear.
Deuteronomy 8:7-8 further describes the land God had prepared for
His people.
How long did they enjoy the plenty of the land?
After Babylon’ second entering of Jerusalem (2Ki 24:14) only the
poorest sort of people were left, after the third siege, Babylon
left the city ravaged by famine and returned to completely burn the
city (2Ki 24:9
The land was left empty of the people, empty of the wealth, empty of
God’s blessing, empty of the joy
The land once so full of food, wealth and people was completely
emptied by the LORD to teach them that
It is better to obey than sacrifice - (1Sa 15:22)
If you do not believe you will not be established. - (Isa 7:9)
Next Lesson - The true curse of Isaiah 24:6
Genesis 3:14,17 with Romans 8:18-22 - Revelation 22:3
Genesis 8:21
Deuteronomy 4:1-8
Deuteronomy 11:28
Jeremiah 7:9-10
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