Isaiah Chapter 19

The main problem of Egypt was their idolatry. (Romans 1)

Verses 1-15: Fulfilled Prophecy
Verses 16-25: Unfulfilled Prophecy

EGYPT: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

• Israel: 2,119 times
• Jordan: 179 times
• Babylon: 265 times
• Syria: 256 times
• Assyria: 265 times
• Lebanon: 64 times
• Egypt: 646 times, 85 times in Genesis alone

1. Egypt represent the World and the flesh
2. The Jews were commanded not to return to Egypt
3. God spiritually called Israel "Sodom" and "Egypt"
4. Abraham went there originally because of a famine in the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:10)< /li>
5. Abraham told Sarah to lie and say she was his sister before they arrived there(Genesis 1 2:11-13)
6. Abraham had Lot with him also then (Genesis 12:4)
7. Israel was promised the land from the Nile (Egypt) to the Euphrates (Iraq) (Genesis 15:1 8)
8. Hagar, Sarah's handmaid, was an Egyptian(Genesis 16:1)
9. Ishmael married an Egyptian woman
10. Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt to Ishmaelites by his brethren
11. This led to Israel being there for 400 years, starting with the famine
12. Joseph married an Egyptian daughter of a priest, Asenath (Genesis 41:45)
13. Joseph was put in charge of Egypt at age thirty, second only to Pharoah because of Josep h's interpretation of the famine/good years dream (Genesis 41:41-45)
14. Joseph was reunited with his father Jacob (Genesis 46:29) and his brothers in Egypt
15. Ephraim and Manasseh were born to Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 41:50-52)
16. Jacob requested not to be buried in Egypt (Genesis 47:29-30)
17. Joseph died in Egypt (Genesis 50:26)
18. Israel was in Egypt as slaves four hundred years (Genesis 15:13)
19. The only man Moses ever murdered was an Egyptian(Exodus 2:12)
20. Moses was considered an Egyptian (Exodus 2:19)
21. Moses was the only one ever told to "return to Egypt" (Exodus 4:19)
22. God first identified Himself to the Jews as a nation, as the God "who bringeth you out f rom under the burden of the Egyptians" (Exodus 6:7)
23. Over a hundred times in Scripture it mentions GOd or Moses bringing the ISraelites out of Egypt
24. Before this, in Genesis, He identified Himself as a the "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob "(Genesis 26:24, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 31:42)
25. God later identified Himself in this manner when HE gave Moses the Ten Commandments (Exo dus 20:2)
26. The first Passover was in Egypt (Exodus 12)
27. The law of the firstborn was initiated in Egypt, because of the last plague, that of the firstborn, confirmed by God Himself in Numbers 8:17
28. The law of the stranger came from the fact that Israel was a stranger in the land of Egy pt (Exodus 23:9)
29. In the very first verse in Leviticus where God commands them to be holy, also the first verse that mentions Egypt, He identifies Himself again as the God that brought them out of t he land of Egypt (Leviticus 11:45)
30. The Law of Blasphemy was instituted (Exodus 24), the result of a son born to an Egyptian Father and an Israelite mother
31. Over and over and over after, the Jews wanted and asked to return to Egypt
32. The Israelites were even known by their enemies when entering into the land of Promise a s "a people out of Egypt" (Numbers 22, 23, 24, etc.)
33. Egypt had many gods and goddesses, and the ten plagues were directed at many of them (Nu mbers 33:4):
    1. Pharoahs were themselves considered gods, so the attack on his firstborn was an attack on an Egyptian god
    2. Anuket (goddess of the Nile River)
    3. Hapi (god of the Nile River)
    4. Heryshef (ruler of the riverbanks)
    5. Heqet (frog-headed goddess, fertility, water, renewal)
    6. Bat (ancient cow goddess)
    7. Hatmehyt (the fish goddess)
    8. Heqet (frog goddess)
    9. Kek and Kauket (deities of darkness, obscurity and night)
    10. Meskhenet (goddess of childbrith)
    11. Bes (protector of childbirth)
    12. Min (god of fertility)
    13. Nun and Naunet (gods of chaos and water)
    14. Nut (goddess of the firmament)
    15. Panebtawy (the child god)
    16. Sebiumeker (Meroitic (area of Meroe, Egypt) god of procreation)
    17. Shu (god of the air and sky)
    18. Heset (goddess of plenty)
    19. Ihy (the child god)
    20. Geb (god of the earth)
    21. Khepri (beetle-headed god of creation, sun movement, rebirth)
    22. Sekhmet (lion-headed woman, goddess of plagues, pestilences and epidemics)
    23. Hathor (goddess of love and protection)
    24. Bat (the cow-headed goddess)
    25. Isis (goddess of medicine and peace)
    26. Im-Hotep (god, came from a real person turned deity, patron of science, wisdom and medicine)
    27. Nut (sky goddess)
    28. Shu (god of air and sky, associated with calm weather, cooling)
    29. Tefnut (goddess of water, moisture and linked to gods/goddesses of the sun and moon)
    30. Seth (god associated primarily with chaos, but also thunder, the desert, and an infertility god)
    31. Senehem (possibly beetle or even locust-headed, protection from ravages of pests
    32. Ra, Amon-Ra (sun god, creator god)
    33. Horus (sky god; whose right eye was the sun, his left eye being the moon)
    34. Min (god of reproduction)
    35. Anubis (dog-headed god of, and of the embalming of, the dead)

34. The Passover, the Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea are two of the most significant events in Jewish history, still celebrated today
35. The Feast of Unleavened Bread also came out of the captivity in/release from Egypt
36. One of the names that God uses for Himself is "the God which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt"
37. Each of the nine verses in Leviticus mentioning the land of Egypt uses this phrase, "the God which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt"
38. The law of the firstborn was because God slew the firstborn of Egypt
39. Egypt was referred to (for Israel anyways) as the "iron furnace"
40. Egypt was also referred to (for Israel anyways) as "the house of bondage"
41. God did His first set of major miracles before their eyes in Egypt
42. Egypt is where Israel became a great nation
43. Joseph and Mary were commanded to take Jesus to Egypt
44. Alexandria, Egypt is the origin of the LXX, a spurious and error-ridden translation of the Old Testament into Greek
45. The idolatry described by Paul in Romans 1 perfectly matches that in Egypt, then and now ("images made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things")
46. Israel's sexual sin (whoredoms and lewdness) is said to originate in Egypt (Ezekiel 23:27 )

Exodus 20:2 (Start of the Ten Commandments)
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Leviticus 11:45
For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Numbers 8:17
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

Numbers 3:13
Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.

Numbers 33:4
For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

Deuteronomy 4:20
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

JOSEPH, MARY, JESUS IN EGYPT

Matthew 2:13-15
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

• Originally mono-thestic, the nation turned to idols of every creature imaginable, and still is idolatrous today, and dark

Isaiah 19:2
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

• This fight among the pharoahs was fulfilled during the life of Isaiah, causing the founding of the cities Thebes, Karnak, Memphis, etc.
• THe failure of the leaders in the political and military realm

Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

• Their leaders were considered gods, but were reduced to babbling fools with no wisdom
• Divination, magic and spiritism were rampant, more so when people could not get answers from men directly

Isaiah 19:4
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

• Ottoman Empire, conquered Egypt for a time
• Psammetichus, pharoah at this time, was

THE ASWAN DAM PROPHECY, 2,700 YEARS OLD

Isaiah 19:5-11
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and theythat spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

• Zoan, northeast corner, also called "Tanis" in history
• The "Lost City of Tanis" was in the movie "The Raiders of the Lost Ark"
• The Aswan Dam Project of the 60s fulfilled this to a "tee"
• The Nile used to flood.......that was stopped
• Nutrients were no longer carried to the seacost, so the fishing industry died as well
• The water is also less oxygenated, leading to death of any riverine creature intolerant of an anaerobic environment
• Crops which relied on the flooding for silt/nutrients failed
• The delta was no longer building up, bringing in nutrients
• Certain snails (bilharzia) were traditionally washed away in the floods. Now they stayed, multiplied and ate the reeds (boats) and flax (clothing) and all other main crops
• In addition, the snails carry a nasty parasite which transmits schistosomiasis, painfully cruel and deadly
• Without the flow, salt has increased, adding further failure to the crops
• FISHING, FARMING, CLOTHING, BUILDING INDUSTRIES-GONE!
• God mocks the engineers, counselors, advisors, designers and builders for all of this, many of whom came from Russia
• Much if not all of this disaster is outlined in a Congressional report, S3448

Isaiah 19:12
Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

• As smart as the engineers were, apparently not one of them predicted the disaster that came from the building of the Aswan Dam

Isaiah 19:13
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

• Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools

Isaiah 19:14
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

• This is a major oops, the Aswan Dam Project

Isaiah 19:15
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

• The economy of Egypt has been destroyed

Isaiah 19:16
In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

• The men and all of them in the country will be terrified at seeing the LORD work
• The Six Days War was an example of this, with Israel

Isaiah 19:17
And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

• Yom Kippur War...........this did happen to them
• Israel was ready to clean their clocks, surrounding them, before the U.S. (Nixon, Kissinger) stepped in and forced a peace agreement

Isaiah 19:18
In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

Isaiah 19:19
In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

• There is an upper and lower Egypt, separated by Giza (Arabic for "border")
• The Great Pyramid sits there

Isaiah 19:20
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

• Some or many pyramids have to have been built by Jews, in many cases, in their captivity
• The Great Pyramid is not a tomb, it is for astronomy/astrology, etc.
• A fiftieth of an inch precision over hundreds of feet, impossible
• Exactly North, South, East, West alignment
• Level: To within one inch over thirteen acres
• Some stones are fifty tons each, most two to thirty
• There are fifty four references to Pi in the Great Pyramid
• The mortar is of unknown origin, known chemistry but cannot be duplicated, is stronger than the stones, and is still intact today
• Aligned true north,
• The descending passage was aligned precisely with the north star at one time, the southern passage with Orion (assoc. with Osiris their god)
• Both this and Stonehenge are thought by zome to be built by Shem

Isaiah 19:21
And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.

• This has to be the Millennial Kingdom
• Salvation has come to Egypt

Isaiah 19:22
And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

• In order fore revival to happen, there neqrly always needs to be judgment and humbling

Isaiah 19:23
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

• Who they shall serve is the LORD, duringthe Millennium!

Isaiah 19:24
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

• This again has to be the Millennial Kingdom
• Being a third with God's chosen people Israel means something special

Isaiah 19:25
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

• Imagine this in the Millennium!
• This will be for a thousand years!

Isaiah Chapter 18

Isaiah 18:1
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

• This is not Egypt (chapter 19 is specific to Egypt)
• THis is not the U.S.
• This is not agreed upon
• This is generally thought to be the U.S. by many
• Ethiopia is know by foreigners and missionaries as "The Land Of Birds" or "The Land Of Wings"

CUSH

• Son of Ham, Father of Nimrod
• Has sent back to Israel many Jews, fulfilling Isaiah 11:11

ETHIOPIA

• Mentioned in the Creation account, Genesis 2:13 (different than the Ethiopia today, Asia)
• Exodus 2:15, the African Ethiopia
• Moses married an Ethiopian woman
• Ethiopia fought along side Egypt and was aligned with Egypt many times, plus was an enemy of Israel in the Old Testament(Kings, Chronicles) and often had many horses and chariots
• In 2 Chronicles 14, God defeated the Ethiopians, vastly outnumbering Israel, for Asa, because Asa relied solely on the LORD, knowing that, in the human realm, this was impossible
• Job mentions it as having topaz deposits (Job 28:19)
• Ethiopian kings apparently had eunuchs alot, or at least they are mentioned a lot, in Scripture
• Great judgment is coming on Ethiopia, for their rejection of the God of Israel all of these millennia
• Great blessing and love from God toward Ethiopia is coming also
• Phillip met a eunuch from Ethiopia who got saved
• They apparently are a pure group and will remain so (Jeremiah 13:23)
• The Coptic, Ethiopian church is the oldest, continuously running church in existence
• God has a special love of Ethiopia, and often speaks well of them in Scripture

ETHIOPIA(ASIA)
Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

ETHIOPIA (AFRICA)
Exodus 2:15
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

Psalms 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Psalms 87:4
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Amos 9:7
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Acts 8:27
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

• Bulrushes are Nile, Egyptian/Ethiopian, not hi-tech, not for long distance, not American
• The nation visited by the ambassadors is none other than Israel
• Because of context, the place where the rivers have spoiled has to be "Palestine", the location of so many wars

Isaiah 18:3
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

• God is calling the earth to pay attention to all that is about to pass.

Isaiah 18:4
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

• Heat destroys herbs as a crop, dew in time of harvest also is destructive

Isaiah 18:5
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

• The raiders will pillage the crops, destroying them, leaving the spoil

Isaiah 18:6
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

• The plundering will be complete by the birds and the beasts, not the conquerors

Isaiah 18:7
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

• This has to be the Millenium
• This is also the perfect description of the downtrodden nation of Israel, although the flooding of the rivers is not indicative of them, except the nation peripherally that they originall inhabited, today a fraction of that

Isaiah Chapter 17

Isaiah 14:28
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.(ca. 710 B.C.)

Psalms 83:1-8
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

The first verse of Isaiah 17 is perhaps the most controversial, and many believe that this is a past fulfillment, but they do with without knowing Isaiah, knowing ancient history, without considering the context of the first verse to establish their timeline.

Jeremiah 49:23-27
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they arefainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen thechildren of Lot. Selah.

Isaiah 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

• Damascus is the oldest inhabited city on earth, with a 4,000-5,000 year, pretty much consistent, steady habitation
• This was not fulfilled fully, ever, in the past, as some claim.
• Many point to 732 B.C. as the fulfillment but, as Isaiah 14:28 shows, this portion of Isaiah was written well after that in 710 B.C. (Ahaz death)
• Damascus has been attacked, conquered many times in history (Isaiah 7 and 8) , but never to this extent
• Damascus is still there today, strong as ever, but never "taken away from being a city"
• Damascus is mentioned over fifty times in Scripture, the first being Abraham and Lots, SOdom, etc. in Genesis 14:15
• Until the early 1900s (1946), Damascus was not even the capital of Syria

Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

• There is no one there to make them afraid, since the people are dead or fled

Isaiah 17:3
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Ephraim was the most dominant of the ten tribes of the north, and gave the name to this area, perhaps then even the military bases of Northern Israel will be destroyed here as well.
• THis is therefore probably an area wide destruction of at least Israel and Syria-it is bad

Isaiah 17:4
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

• The war will deplete Israel's IDF forces.

Isaiah 17:5
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

• It is as though everything was deliberately picked clean, during harvest time

Isaiah 17:6
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

• Famine conditions
• When what is left is up, then there are no birds, and only what was reached by whoever or whatever is what has been taken

Isaiah 17:7
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

• After all of this judgment comes humility
• From the humility comes praise, thankfulness, acknowledgement

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

• God is acknowledged, gods are not
• God is God, man is not
• Idolatry includes idols, sacrificial altars, groves of trees ( especially oak), images

Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

• If there is a tremendous interruption during harvest, this is what it would look like-complete, sudden abandonment

Isaiah 17:10-11
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

• The physical food blessing from God will not be enjoyed
• Notice that it shall not diminish (blessing), but it shall not be harvested by the reapers (curse)

Isaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

• This is the current state of all of the nations surrouding Israel in any and every direction

Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

• That current state ends immediately when God decides to take a side with Israel and rebuffs them, chasing them away

Psalms 29:3
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

Isaiah 17:14
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

• This is an instant destruction, the start and end of the events in verse one

THE BOOK OF JOB, Chapter 1

The ramblings of Job's friends:

Eliphaz:	Chapters 4-5, 15, 22 (total 4 chapters)
Bildad:	Chapters 8, 18, 25 (total 3 chapters)
Zophar	Chapters 11, 20 (total two chapters)

The responses by Elihu

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite Chapter 32-37 (total six chapters)

Job responses: Chapters 3, 6, 9, 12-14, 16-17, 19, 23-24, 26-31 (total 19 chapters)

The Answer from the LORD Chapters 38-41 (total 4 chapters)

Chapter by chapter conversations:

Chapter 1-God and the enemy	Chapter 22-Eliphaz
Chapter 2- God and the enemy	Chapter 23-Job
Chapter 3-Job	Chapter 24-Job
Chapter 4-Eliphaz	Chapter 25-Bildad
Chapter 5-Eliphaz	Chapter 26-Job
Chapter 6-Job	Chapter 27-Job
Chapter 7-Job	Chapter 28-Job
Chapter 8-Bildad	Chapter 29-Job
Chapter 9-Job	Chapter 30-Job
Chapter 10-Job	Chapter 31-Job
Chapter 11-Zophar	Chapter 32-Elihu
Chapter 12-Job	Chapter 33-Elihu
Chapter 13-Job	Chapter 34-Elihu
Chapter 14-Job	Chapter 35-Elihu
Chapter 15-Eliphaz	Chapter 36-Elihu
Chapter 16-Job	Chapter 37-Elihu
Chapter 17-Job	Chapter 38-The LORD to Job
Chapter 18-Bildad	Chapter 39- The LORD to Job
Chapter 19-Job	Chapter 40- The LORD to Job
Chapter 20-Zophar	Chapter 41-The LORD to Job
Chapter 21-Job	Chapter 42- The LORD to Eliphaz, Zophar, Bildad, Job

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

THE MEANING OF "JOB"

H340 (Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions)
- Original: איב
- Transliteration: 'ayab
- Phonetic: aw-yab'

- Definition:
1. to be hostile to, to be an enemy to
a. (Qal)
1. to be hostile to
2. to treat as an enemy
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 78
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Original: איּוב
- Transliteration: 'Iyowb
- Phonetic: ee-yobe'
- Definition: Job = "hated"
1. a patriarch, the subject of the book of Job
- Origin: from H340
- TWOT entry: 78b
- Part(s) of speech: Proper Name Masculine

• Perfect (God's eyes)
• Upright (man's eyes)
• Eschewed evil (avoided, shunned)-difference in not liking and actually staying away from

Job 1:2-3
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

• Ten kids
• The wealth measured in livestock
• Asses for carrying heavy loads on rough terrain
• Camels provide food, transportation, shelter, meat (like veal), milk, fuel for fires
• The "household" was servants
• Rich, yet humble and entering Heaven, and therefore very rare
• In 2011 we would say he had "Lots of kids, lots of food, lots of clothing, lots of cars, lots of land, houses for each of his kids, lots of maids and butlers, lots of employees, huge company".

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
-Matthew 19:23

Job 1:4
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for theirthree sisters to eat and to drink with them.

• Not only children, but siblings of both genders who gathered daily and even got along (sent and called)
• They even rotated houses to visit daily.

Job 1:5
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

• This probably oldest book , so no law given yet.
• Today we call it "praying for our children to get saved, teaching them the Bible, being a good example to them".
• "Continually" he did this

Job 1:6

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

Sons of God

(Genesis 6:2)
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. (Jude 1:6)
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

• Job is unaware of this whole conversation until after it all is done
• Shows access to the Throne to falsely accuse US

Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Job 1:7
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

• Like a roaring, starving lion in search of prey.
• Kicked from the pride, dangerous (kicked out of Heaven)

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Job 1:8
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

• The repetition of Job's characteristics
• Unique among men (none like him in the earth)
• God offers up Job for persecution

Job 1:9

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

• Satan acknowledges Job fears God-then claims it does him no good to fear God
• Thinks it is because of what God does, not who He is
• Why do WE fear God? Blessings?
• The implication here is that, without SOMETHING, we could not, would not fear God, love Him, reverence Him.

Job 1:10
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

• Protection for Job, home (family), business, possessions
• The enemy even repeats that Job is blessed

Job 1:11
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

• The enemy, having rejected God, thinks that having material blessings from God is why people love Him (self-deception, man and enemy)
• Notice how the enemy wants God to do the touching. (Sovereignty)
• "Curse".......let's wait and see
• Implication is that persecution will turn a believer away from God, not toward

Job 1:12
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

• Complete sovereignty over the spiritual and physical realm. God allows and limits.
• Title deed to earth is still in the enemy's hands: "is in thy power"
• Change of scenes, and the act is related by witnesses, not described for us play-by-play as it happened.

Job 1:13-14
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

• Getting the information from messengers has some significance
• This is a normal work day for Job's servants

Job 1:15
And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

• The enemy uses willing raiders, Yemenis, Saudis, Ethiopians (from Sheba, who was of Canaan)
• All of his working capital, many of his most important working servants (main company and all employees)
• One person escapes-General Persching

Job 1:16
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

• While he was yet speaking....imagine a person not finishing a bad announcement and you see someone ELSE coming to bring you news.
• "Fire of God".....
• One person escapes again, "only am escaped alone"
• The wool, mutton and lamb..and their servants who cared for them

Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

• While he was yet speaking.
• Chaldeans, from Babylon, Iraq region
• The camels, like losing all of your car collection
• Not to mention those servants also who cared for them
• "I only am escaped alone to tell thee." ....again.

Job 1:18
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

• While he was yet speaking...once again

Job 1:19
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

• I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Oxen and asses-work animals, plus servants (means of support, job)
• Sheep, more servants (provisions-food, clothing)
• Camels, last of the servants (transportation )
• His kids (family)
• Today's news this would be a "great calamity, a great natural tragedy, our prayers and thoughts are with Job and his family)
• Job lost it all

Job 1:20
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

• Proof of who Job really is and what God was saying about Job (God's testimony of Job)
• Mourning combines with worship

Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

• Job realizes he really did not own anything,
• He includes his own clothing in this, the only thing he has left......
• The naked part used at funerals years ago

(Eccl 5:15; 1Tim 6:7; [Jas 5:11]; [1Pet 3:15];)

Job 1:22
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

• For the rest of Job:
• His wife is foolish
• His three friends are foolish
• He keeps his own faith and faithfulness besides and despite all of the losses...........and them....
• LOADED with science from many fields from geology to dinosaurs (cryptozoology), biology, physics, astronomy, etc.
• Why do WE fear God? Because we want His blessings?
• What if WE lost EVERYTHING, just like Job?

Isaiah Chapter 16

Context also: 2 Kings 1-7

Isaiah 16:1
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

• The lambs....there is a history with Moab, Israel, lambs
• Sela (ROCK) was the main city in Moab, the capital of Edom, associated with an was located today in what is now called Petra
• It is in the great valley of salt (2 Kings 14:7)

2 Kings 3:4
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

2 Kings 14:7
He (Amaziah-Judah) slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

2 Samuel 8:2
And he (David)smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

Isaiah 16:2
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

• Wandering birds (fledglings) are vulnerable, lost, roaming aimlessly, helpless
• Arnon is a gorge in western Jordan which is near and also enters the Dead Sea

Isaiah 16:3
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

BEWRA'Y, v.t. beray. To disclose perfidiously; to betray; to show or make visible.
Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Mat 23.
[This word is nearly antiquated.]

• This has to be Petra, which has shadows vertically from the sun, to hide
• The only protection then will be the rocks themselves

Isaiah 16:4
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

• An allusion to the middle of the Great Tribulation, where Israel flees the anti-Christ
• Gos is asking Jordan to take in His people as refugees for protection
• Three and a half years is not a very long time for the enemy to rule in light of all of human history

Isaiah 16:5
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

Acts 15:16
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

Amos 9:11
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

Revelation 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

• This is after the tribulation, The LORD Jesus Christ sitting on His Throne, judging

Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

• Moab did not let Israel pass through their land in the wilderness wanderings (Numbers 21-22)
• Balak wanted Balaam to curse Israel
• There is a special judgment for Moab on the LORD'S return

Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

Isaiah 16:7
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

• Kirhareseth was/is the capital of Moab, south of what is now Amman, Jordan and South and East of Jerusalem
• Also called Qir of Moab, it was a prominent and important city in Moab

Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

• Heshbon, Sibmah and Jazer are all in the same area, just outside of what is today Amman, Jordan
• The principal plants are the food crops and the fruit of the vine-staples
• This stretching out of branches, plus including the sea, would be a type of completeness in its destruction

Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

• The Israelites took Heshbon from Sihon, King of the Amorites (
• Sihon refused to let Israel pass through
• Gad and Reuben asked from Moses to obtain Jazer for their much cattle
• It was given by Moses, later to Gad

Numbers 21:23
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Numbers 21:26
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

Numbers 32:1
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

Joshua 13:24-25
And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;

Isaiah 16:10
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

• The glory, the sustenance, the partying, the debauchery, all destroyed

Isaiah 16:11
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

• The harp is an instrument of rejoicing to God, praise for us

Isaiah 16:12
And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

• No place to worship, due to utter destruction
• Not being a true god, Chemosh is not even able to be prayed to once the objects of paganism are removed.
• God promised this would happen even to Israel (Deuteronomy 32:37-38), so why would a pagan nation which did not ever know God Himself be exempt from this judgment?

Deuteronomy 32:37-38
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

Isaiah 16:13
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Isaiah 16:14
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

• Within three years the Assyrians destroyed Moab (before 705 B.C., or thereabouts)