*Isaiah 17:10 / *Isa. 17:10 -
The original Hebrew word (zara: H2232) translated as "set it with" can mean "plant it with".
The Hebrew word (zuwr: H2114) translated as "strange" can mean "foreign".
The Hebrew word (zamowrah: H2156) translated as "slips" can mean "twigs", as in from the very top of a tree (Ezekiel 17:22-23). Such planting-twigs being from the top of a tree (so that they will grow into a new tree instead of withering) could refer to how Arabs are descended from Abraham through Ishmael no less than Jews are descended from Abraham through Isaac. But Abraham was told not to mix Ishmael's descendants with Isaac's (Genesis 21:10, Genesis 16:15).
So "thou shalt set it with strange slips" can mean: "you will purposely bring foreigners into the land of Israel", such as bringing Arab laborers into Israel as permanent residents. (Compare how the U.S. allows Mexican laborers to become permanent residents, giving them "green cards".)
Also, note the wonderful alliteration of "zara zuwr zemowrah", exemplifying the beautiful, poetic nature of God's Word, which is so often lost in translation.
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*Isaiah 17:11 / *Isa. 17:11 -
The original Hebrew word (ned: H5067) translated as "heap" can mean just that, in the context a wonderful heap of a fruitful harvest. But this heap will be piled up only to be destroyed in a day of grief.
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*Isaiah 17:12-14 / *Isa. 17:12 / *Isa. 17:14 -
This could refer to a pillaging of Jerusalem which will occur right before Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming and the subsequent Millennium (Zechariah 14).
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*Isaiah 18:1-2a / *Isa. 18:1 -
This could refer to that part of Africa beyond the rivers of Ethiopia from the viewpoint of the land of Israel. The imagery of Isaiah 18:1-2a could refer to what sub-Saharan Africa was like in the time of the prophet Isaiah in the seventh century BC. For the Hebrew for: "the land shadowing with wings" would permit the translation: "the land of spears with feathers". For the original Hebrew word (tselatsal: H6767) translated as "shadowing" can refer to "spears" (Job 41:7). And the Hebrew word (kanaph: H3671) translated as "wings" can refer to "feathers" (Ezekiel 39:17). Some sub-Saharan African tribes could have attached feathers to their spears, perhaps to talismanically (and aerodynamically) "help them fly" farther when thrown. The "vessels of bulrushes" in Isaiah 18:2 could refer to literal, small boats which could have been made out of bulrushes by some sub-Saharan African tribes. Compare the boat named Kon-Tiki.
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*Isaiah 19:1 / *Isa. 19:1 -
Isaiah 19 has not been fulfilled yet. For Isaiah 19:5,17-25 has never happened, but will happen during the future Millennium, when the physically returned Jesus Christ will bring judgments on Egypt for its refusal, at first, to come up to worship Him in Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:16-21). Jesus travelling on a cloud in the sky in Isaiah 19:1 can be literal and physical, just as Jesus ascending into a cloud in the sky in Acts 1:9 was literal and physical.
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*Isaiah 19:6 / *Isa. 19:6 -
The original Hebrew word (cuwph: H5488) translated as "flags" can refer to a type of reed.
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*Isaiah 19:8 / *Isa. 19:8 -
The original Hebrew word (chakkah: H2443) translated as "angle" can mean a fishing hook. Compare how even today, those who fish with a rod and reel are called "anglers".
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*Isaiah 20 / *Isa. 20 -
(Re: Means that Isaiah 19 has been fulfilled?)
No, for Isaiah 20 was fulfilled in ancient times, whereas Isaiah 19 has not been fulfilled yet.
Isaiah 20:1 refers to when the city of Ashdod was conquered in 711 BC, when the king of Assyria was Sargon II.
Isaiah 20:4-6 refers to when part of Egypt was conquered in 671 BC, when the king of Assyria was Esarhaddon (who succeeded Sennacherib).
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*Isaiah 22:6 / *Isa. 22:6 -
Here Elam refers not to Iran (Persia), but to an ancient nation which was just east of ancient Babylon and west of Persia.
And in Isaiah 22:6, Kir could refer to a place in ancient Moab (Isaiah 15:1), the land of which is now part of the country of Jordan. The Moabites loved it when ancient Jerusalem was wiped out by Babylon (Jeremiah 48:27, Zephaniah 2:8).
So Isaiah 22:6 can mean that some of the soldiers of Elam and Kir (not to mention other nations) joined Babylon in its attack on ancient Jerusalem (Isaiah 5:26) in 586 BC.
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*Isaiah 22:12-14 / *Isa. 22:12 -
This could refer to Jerusalem (Isaiah 22:9-11) before its destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
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(Re: But Babylon is not even mentioned in Isaiah 22)
Note that it does not have to be, for Isaiah 22:15-17 can refer to a contemporary of Jeremiah the prophet (who prophesied in the sixth century BC) being taken into the Babylonian captivity.
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*Isaiah 23:3 / *Isa. 23:3 -
(Sihor / H7883)
See section 2 of Jeremiah 2:18 below.
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*Isaiah 24 / *Isa. 24 -
This could happen at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For the events of "that day" in Isaiah 24:21-22 match the Second Coming events of Revelation 19:19 to 20:3. And the events of Isaiah 24:23 match the post-tribulation, Second Coming events of Matthew 24:29-30 and the subsequent Millennial reign of Jesus on the earth in Revelation 20:4-6 and Micah 4:1-4.
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*Isaiah 24:20 / *Isa. 24:20 -
"It shall fall, and not rise again" does not refer to the planet earth itself, for it will abide forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4, Psalms 104:5, Psalms 78:69b), just as we see it continuing in Isaiah 24:23b.
Instead. "it shall fall, and not rise again" refers to "the transgression" of humans on the earth:
Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
This can refer to the worst transgression ever of humans on the earth, which will be during the reign of the future Antichrist (Revelation 13:4-18), which transgression will fall at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:19-21).
And so all of...
(See Isaiah 24(space) above. Also, see the "After the Second Coming" section of Revelation 20:4 below)
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*Isaiah 25 / *Isa. 25 -
This is about the time of the future Millennium of Revelation 20:4-6, with Isaiah 25:6-12 occurring at the very start of the Millennium, right after Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6). For Isaiah 25:6 refers to the same feast as Revelation 19:9. And Isaiah 25:8 refers to the same physical resurrection as 1 Corinthians 15:54 and Revelation 20:4-6.
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*Isaiah 25:8 / *Isa. 25:8 -
(Re: Revelation 21:4)
See section 2 of Revelation 21:4 below.
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*Isaiah 26:2 / *Isa. 26:2 -
This, in its context (Isaiah 26:1) can refer to the future Millennium.
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*Isaiah 26:18 / *Isa. 26:18 -
This is a similar idea to Daniel 12:7b.
(See Daniel 12:7b below)
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*Isaiah 26:19-20 / *Isa. 26:19 / *Isa. 26:20 -
(*Chambers)
Isaiah 26:19 refers to the physical resurrection of the Church (of all times), which will not happen until Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (1 Thessalonians 4:14-16; 1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-57, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6).
But Isaiah 26:20 starts a new idea, a new paragraph, like is indicated in some copies of the KJV. And Isaiah 26:20 also takes a step back chronologically from Isaiah 26:19, like how, for example, Matthew 14:3 takes a step back chronologically from Matthew 14:2. For Isaiah 26:20 is addressing those in the Church who will still be alive on the earth at the time of the seven vials of God's wrath (Revelation 16), the final stage of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24. These Christians will still be waiting for Jesus Christ's Second Coming as a thief (Revelation 16:15). And they will not be appointed to God's wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:9). So Isaiah 26:20 refers to them going into protective chambers which they will have prepared for themselves on the earth, just as Noah and his family went into the protective ark which they had prepared for themselves on the earth (Genesis 7:7). There would be no reason for resurrected, immortal people in heaven to hide (Isaiah 26:20b) from any events happening down on the earth.
Also, Christians can prepare their Isaiah 26:20 chambers now, and hide in them out in the wilderness at some point in our future (Revelation 12:6a), not only during the time of the seven vials (Revelation 16), but also during the just-preceding, literal 3.5 years (Revelation 12:6b) of the future Antichrist's worldwide reign (Revelation 13:5-18). For his reign will involve the wrath of Satan coming against those in the Church (not in hiding) who will still be alive on the earth (Revelation 12:17, Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-13).
One way for Christians to prepare these chambers would be to bury old shipping containers, which shipping and trucking companies could have stacked up in their back lots ready to sell cheaply to anyone who will take them off of their hands.
Once you have one or more shipping containers at your wilderness site, you can rent a bulldozer for a few days and dig big trenches in which to bury them. The trenches need to be deep enough so that you can pile six feet of dirt on top of the containers. For that much dirt is required to stop radiation from nuclear fallout from reaching the containers. Also, six feet of dirt will serve as great insulation, so that no matter how hot or cold it gets on the surface, the shipping containers will always remain a pleasant 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius).
Once you have put the shipping containers in their trenches, you can cut a manhole in the center of the top of each container, and then cut two smaller, six-inch ventilation holes in the top of each end of each container. Then you can attach to each manhole a seven-foot-long vertical PVC pipe with the same diameter as the manhole, and attach to each ventilation hole a seven-foot-long vertical PVC pipe with the same diameter as the ventilation hole. Then you can use the bulldozer to carefully bury the containers without breaking off the vertical pipes.
Then you can place a 16-foot ladder down the manhole pipe of each container. And you can go down into each container and place a small, battery-powered fan inside one of its ventilation holes, to be turned on whenever fresh air is needed in the container. Your containers will then be all set to start stocking with canned food, bottled water, bedding, warm clothing, batteries, sealed buckets for waste, and all other needed supplies whenever you want to do that. You will then need to secure the top of each manhole-pipe with some sort of PVC, perhaps screw-on, cover which can be locked from both the outside when you are away from the container and from the inside when you are in the container. To keep any radioactive dust or ash from entering very far into the ventilation pipes, you can place a cylindrical air filter near the top of each pipe. And to keep rain, insects, and small animals from entering the pipes and affecting the filters, you can place a nylon screen and a side-vented (i.e. perforated) PVC cap over the top of each pipe. Another thing to worry about is floodwater pouring into the pipes. So your wilderness site should not be in a floodplain, but on high-enough ground where it will not be flooded.
Because one of the reasons to go underground is to be hidden from hostile people during the worldwide reign of the future Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast"), you will want to restore the surface of the ground above the buried containers so that it appears as much as possible as it did before you began digging. Also, the tops of the manhole and ventilation pipes of each container will need to be hidden by brush so that any hostile people passing by will not notice them. Also, in case some hostile people with dogs happen to pass by while you are hiding inside a container, you will need to place some long-dead (non-smelling) carcass of a small animal near enough to each ventilation pipe so that if the dogs pick up your scent emanating from a ventilation pipe, the hostile people with the dogs will think that their dogs are just interested in the carcass of the animal and will not start rummaging through the brush and discover the ventilation pipe. Another thing to do would be to set up hidden motion detectors around your site which would alert you in your container if anyone is approaching the area around it. Then you could spray Ozium (a scent eliminator) into your container's ventilation pipes and block them from inside the container to prevent your scent from ascending into the pipes while people with dogs are passing through the area.
Besides camouflaging your underground hideout so that no hostile people will even notice it during the future Antichrist's worldwide reign (in the future Tribulation's second half), before the Tribulation begins and you are still thinking about where in the wilderness to prepare your hideout, you will need to be very circumspect about whom you tell about your plans. You will want to tell only those people who are completely committed to joining you in your hideout. For if you get other people involved in knowing, before the Antichrist's reign, where your hideout is located, then during the Antichrist's reign those people could be captured by the Antichrist's police or soldiers, and under torture or interrogation drugs (e.g. anesthesia), they could divulge the location of your hideout. Or those same people, even if they are not captured, could start to get very hungry during the Antichrist's reign and decide to go out to your hideout and demand to be fed with your supplies, even though you did not store up enough for them, because before the Tribulation they had said that they definitely were not going to join you in your hideout.
Another thing to remember is that before the future Antichrist's worldwide reign (of Revelation 13:4-18), even when communicating with those who are committed to joining you in your hideout during his reign, you must never refer to your hideout's location over the internet, or over a cell phone, smartphone, or landline phone; or audibly even in your own car or home; or audibly in any store, restaurant, workplace, or street equipped with surveillance cameras and microphones, as all of these could be currently tapped and recorded by government surveillance agencies, and their records could later be searched by the Antichrist's police or soldiers to determine your hideout's location. (Government surveillance agencies think that they are protecting "national security", but what they have done is set everything up for the future Antichrist's total surveillance and subjugation of everyone.) So you will have to communicate your hideout's location to others, both currently and in the future, only by ear-whispering (with a covering hand), or by handwritten notes (with a covering hand) which are only given directly and then are burned up immediately after they have been read.
Also, you must not have any device with a GPS chip (such as a cell phone, smartphone, tablet computer, laptop computer, OnStar, MOPAR EVTS, LoJack, Garmin, TomTom, etc.) with you when you are at your hideout, as the GPS chip could be secretly pinged remotely to determine your hideout's location. Also, you can disable any obvious GPS antenna on your car (such as the antennas that look like a little shark fin on the roof, or are a short pole sticking out of the back of the roof) by cutting through the fabric in the ceiling of your car and simply cutting the electric wires leading to the antenna. Also, you will need to have your car, shoes, clothing, and all supplies intended for your hideout electronically-swept for any GPS trackers which have been covertly placed in them by government surveillance agencies, which could get access to your car while it is in the shop, and get access to your home while you are away from it.
Currently, as during the future Tribulation, if you are sure that your car does not have a GPS tracker, whenever you want to keep your cell phone or smartphone with you, but want to avoid having your movements tracked through it, wrap it in a wash cloth, or put it in a cigar box, and wrap the towel or box with aluminum foil so that no phone signals can reach the phone. To make sure that there are no gaps or tears in the foil through which signals can enter, once the phone is in the foil-wrapped towel or box, call it from another phone and see if it rings. If it does, hang up, wrap the towel or box with a second layer of foil and call again. If the phone does not ring, this means that no signals can reach it, and so your movements cannot be tracked through it. Also, look for "Faraday bags" for sale online.
But your movements can still be tracked through license-plate reading cameras attached atop traffic-signal poles at intersections. Perhaps you could place a grating over your license plate with horizontal slats so that the plate can be read from behind but not from a raised angle. And/or you could devise a hinged plate that drops down over your license plate to hide it just momentarily while you are passing through an intersection with a camera, and then raises up again after you have passed through it. (The plate could look like another license plate which says "ORWELL".) The movement of the plate down and up could be initiated by a toggle switch which you could place on your dashboard. But the government is now coming out with license plates that have GPS chips. If these plates ever become mandatory, such as, purportedly, to be able to track lost and stolen plates, you will have to find a way to temporarily disable or jam the chips electronically. Also, you will need to hide your eyes with large, dark sunglasses, and/or place your hand over your nose and mouth, while passing through an intersection with a camera, as the camera could see your face through your windshield, and facial recognition technology is now highly advanced.
But your license plate and face can still be read by roaming police cruisers between intersections. And there could be many license-plate and face-reading cameras located on light poles on long stretches of streets between intersections, and randomly on bridges and other structures out on the open highway. So you will need to carefully look for any cameras located between your current, city home and wilderness hideout. Also, if you notice a police or highway patrol cruiser out on the open highway near to your hideout, you will need to pass by your hideout and make a stop, say, some twenty miles past it, such as at a gas station, and then turn around and head back toward your hideout, turning off onto the dirt road leading to it only if the coast is clear.
Also, when you make your final trip out to your hideout, when you will begin hiding there during the future Antichrist's worldwide reign, you will need to abandon your car miles away from your hideout and walk the rest of the way (out of view of the highway). For otherwise your car could catch the attention of any passing hostile people or patrolling drone aircraft. And even if you abandon your car miles away from your hideout, you will still want to camouflage it with brush to avoid it being seen and starting a general search of the area. Or, if there is not enough brush with which to camouflage it, you can let the air out of one of its tires visible from the road so that people passing on the road will think that your car was left there simply because it got a flat tire.
Some people think that everyone in the cities will try to go out into the wilderness during the future Tribulation. But this may not be the case. For almost all people in the cities do not have hunting/fishing and other wilderness survival skills, and will not know of any well-stocked hideouts in the wilderness. And so they will not think that there is any food out there, or that they will be able to construct any decent shelter out there. They will think of the wilderness as being only barren ground and brush, rocks, trees, and mountains. And so they will stay in the cities where they have shelter, and some chance of finding food. And if the cities come under martial law, they could become the safest places to be, as the military could bring order to them and supply them with emergency food and water.
But martial law will cut both ways in that once the future Antichrist takes over everything (Revelation 13:7-18), the cities could become, in effect, huge military prisons, where people will have to receive the Antichrist's mark on their right hand or forehead if they want to buy any food (Revelation 13:16-17). And everyone will have to worship Lucifer (Satan, the dragon) and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") (Revelation 13:4-10, Revelation 12:9) and a speaking image of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:15) if they do not want to be executed by being beheaded (Revelation 20:4). Christians trapped in the cities must be willing to be beheaded. For if they go ahead and take the mark and worship Lucifer and the Antichrist and his image, then they will ultimately lose their salvation and God will cause them to suffer eternally in fire and brimstone (Revelation 14:9-14).
Christians should not assume that they will necessarily be able to stand up well under the hunger (and possibly torture) and beheading which will be imposed on Christians trapped in the cities during the future Antichrist's worldwide reign. Many Christians could eventually give in and take the mark when their hunger and the hunger of their crying little ones reaches a certain point (Isaiah 8:21-22). And they could give in and worship Lucifer and the Antichrist and his image when they are confronted with they and their little ones being beheaded if they do not do these things. It will be much, much better for Christians to avoid these horrors by fleeing into prepared hiding places in the wilderness right before the Antichrist's 3.5-year worldwide reign of terror begins (Revelation 12:6, Matthew 24:15-16).
"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself..." (Proverbs 22:3, Proverbs 27:12, Proverbs 28:28, Proverbs 28:12b).
(See also Matthew 24:16 and Revelation 12 below)
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(Re: But could not the Antichrist's agents use underground-scanning radar to detect such a hideout as you described above, like how underground-scanning radar has been used today to detect tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border?)
Note that the border is scanned because drug and immigrant-smuggling tunnels have been found there in the past. The Antichrist's agents will not have the time or resources to underground-scan every acre of non-border areas of the world out in the middle of nowhere, with no unusual surface features to suggest that anything is underground there.
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(Re: But would not the Antichrist's agents notice a road in the wilderness going to "nowhere", that is, a track which you made while building your hideout?)
Note that wilderness areas often have thousands of tracks going to nowhere, or forming large loops, made by off-road vehicles on recreational tours. Also, Christians can cover any new tracks which they make while preparing their wilderness hideouts in areas without many other tracks. Or, they can place their hideout along an already-existing track which is so old, and which is so many miles long, and which either eventually loops, or connects two other tracks, that the Antichrist's agents will not have the motive, time, or resources to underground-scan along both sides of every yard of such a track, especially considering how staggeringly vast the world's wilderness areas are, and how many old tracks they contain.
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(Re: But can't the tracks made by off-road vehicles not be used to transport shipping containers?)
They can, if the soil is not too sandy, and the containers are empty.
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(Re: But will not the transport of shipping containers need the same kind of real road which is made for lumber exploitation?)
No, for lumber trucks are extremely heavy when they are fully loaded with tree trunks.
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The original Hebrew word (zara: H2232) translated as "set it with" can mean "plant it with".
The Hebrew word (zuwr: H2114) translated as "strange" can mean "foreign".
The Hebrew word (zamowrah: H2156) translated as "slips" can mean "twigs", as in from the very top of a tree (Ezekiel 17:22-23). Such planting-twigs being from the top of a tree (so that they will grow into a new tree instead of withering) could refer to how Arabs are descended from Abraham through Ishmael no less than Jews are descended from Abraham through Isaac. But Abraham was told not to mix Ishmael's descendants with Isaac's (Genesis 21:10, Genesis 16:15).
So "thou shalt set it with strange slips" can mean: "you will purposely bring foreigners into the land of Israel", such as bringing Arab laborers into Israel as permanent residents. (Compare how the U.S. allows Mexican laborers to become permanent residents, giving them "green cards".)
Also, note the wonderful alliteration of "zara zuwr zemowrah", exemplifying the beautiful, poetic nature of God's Word, which is so often lost in translation.
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*Isaiah 17:11 / *Isa. 17:11 -
The original Hebrew word (ned: H5067) translated as "heap" can mean just that, in the context a wonderful heap of a fruitful harvest. But this heap will be piled up only to be destroyed in a day of grief.
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*Isaiah 17:12-14 / *Isa. 17:12 / *Isa. 17:14 -
This could refer to a pillaging of Jerusalem which will occur right before Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming and the subsequent Millennium (Zechariah 14).
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*Isaiah 18:1-2a / *Isa. 18:1 -
This could refer to that part of Africa beyond the rivers of Ethiopia from the viewpoint of the land of Israel. The imagery of Isaiah 18:1-2a could refer to what sub-Saharan Africa was like in the time of the prophet Isaiah in the seventh century BC. For the Hebrew for: "the land shadowing with wings" would permit the translation: "the land of spears with feathers". For the original Hebrew word (tselatsal: H6767) translated as "shadowing" can refer to "spears" (Job 41:7). And the Hebrew word (kanaph: H3671) translated as "wings" can refer to "feathers" (Ezekiel 39:17). Some sub-Saharan African tribes could have attached feathers to their spears, perhaps to talismanically (and aerodynamically) "help them fly" farther when thrown. The "vessels of bulrushes" in Isaiah 18:2 could refer to literal, small boats which could have been made out of bulrushes by some sub-Saharan African tribes. Compare the boat named Kon-Tiki.
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*Isaiah 19:1 / *Isa. 19:1 -
Isaiah 19 has not been fulfilled yet. For Isaiah 19:5,17-25 has never happened, but will happen during the future Millennium, when the physically returned Jesus Christ will bring judgments on Egypt for its refusal, at first, to come up to worship Him in Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:16-21). Jesus travelling on a cloud in the sky in Isaiah 19:1 can be literal and physical, just as Jesus ascending into a cloud in the sky in Acts 1:9 was literal and physical.
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*Isaiah 19:6 / *Isa. 19:6 -
The original Hebrew word (cuwph: H5488) translated as "flags" can refer to a type of reed.
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*Isaiah 19:8 / *Isa. 19:8 -
The original Hebrew word (chakkah: H2443) translated as "angle" can mean a fishing hook. Compare how even today, those who fish with a rod and reel are called "anglers".
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*Isaiah 20 / *Isa. 20 -
(Re: Means that Isaiah 19 has been fulfilled?)
No, for Isaiah 20 was fulfilled in ancient times, whereas Isaiah 19 has not been fulfilled yet.
Isaiah 20:1 refers to when the city of Ashdod was conquered in 711 BC, when the king of Assyria was Sargon II.
Isaiah 20:4-6 refers to when part of Egypt was conquered in 671 BC, when the king of Assyria was Esarhaddon (who succeeded Sennacherib).
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*Isaiah 22:6 / *Isa. 22:6 -
Here Elam refers not to Iran (Persia), but to an ancient nation which was just east of ancient Babylon and west of Persia.
And in Isaiah 22:6, Kir could refer to a place in ancient Moab (Isaiah 15:1), the land of which is now part of the country of Jordan. The Moabites loved it when ancient Jerusalem was wiped out by Babylon (Jeremiah 48:27, Zephaniah 2:8).
So Isaiah 22:6 can mean that some of the soldiers of Elam and Kir (not to mention other nations) joined Babylon in its attack on ancient Jerusalem (Isaiah 5:26) in 586 BC.
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*Isaiah 22:12-14 / *Isa. 22:12 -
This could refer to Jerusalem (Isaiah 22:9-11) before its destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
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(Re: But Babylon is not even mentioned in Isaiah 22)
Note that it does not have to be, for Isaiah 22:15-17 can refer to a contemporary of Jeremiah the prophet (who prophesied in the sixth century BC) being taken into the Babylonian captivity.
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*Isaiah 23:3 / *Isa. 23:3 -
(Sihor / H7883)
See section 2 of Jeremiah 2:18 below.
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*Isaiah 24 / *Isa. 24 -
This could happen at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For the events of "that day" in Isaiah 24:21-22 match the Second Coming events of Revelation 19:19 to 20:3. And the events of Isaiah 24:23 match the post-tribulation, Second Coming events of Matthew 24:29-30 and the subsequent Millennial reign of Jesus on the earth in Revelation 20:4-6 and Micah 4:1-4.
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*Isaiah 24:20 / *Isa. 24:20 -
"It shall fall, and not rise again" does not refer to the planet earth itself, for it will abide forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4, Psalms 104:5, Psalms 78:69b), just as we see it continuing in Isaiah 24:23b.
Instead. "it shall fall, and not rise again" refers to "the transgression" of humans on the earth:
Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
This can refer to the worst transgression ever of humans on the earth, which will be during the reign of the future Antichrist (Revelation 13:4-18), which transgression will fall at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:19-21).
And so all of...
(See Isaiah 24(space) above. Also, see the "After the Second Coming" section of Revelation 20:4 below)
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*Isaiah 25 / *Isa. 25 -
This is about the time of the future Millennium of Revelation 20:4-6, with Isaiah 25:6-12 occurring at the very start of the Millennium, right after Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6). For Isaiah 25:6 refers to the same feast as Revelation 19:9. And Isaiah 25:8 refers to the same physical resurrection as 1 Corinthians 15:54 and Revelation 20:4-6.
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*Isaiah 25:8 / *Isa. 25:8 -
(Re: Revelation 21:4)
See section 2 of Revelation 21:4 below.
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*Isaiah 26:2 / *Isa. 26:2 -
This, in its context (Isaiah 26:1) can refer to the future Millennium.
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*Isaiah 26:18 / *Isa. 26:18 -
This is a similar idea to Daniel 12:7b.
(See Daniel 12:7b below)
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*Isaiah 26:19-20 / *Isa. 26:19 / *Isa. 26:20 -
(*Chambers)
Isaiah 26:19 refers to the physical resurrection of the Church (of all times), which will not happen until Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (1 Thessalonians 4:14-16; 1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-57, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6).
But Isaiah 26:20 starts a new idea, a new paragraph, like is indicated in some copies of the KJV. And Isaiah 26:20 also takes a step back chronologically from Isaiah 26:19, like how, for example, Matthew 14:3 takes a step back chronologically from Matthew 14:2. For Isaiah 26:20 is addressing those in the Church who will still be alive on the earth at the time of the seven vials of God's wrath (Revelation 16), the final stage of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24. These Christians will still be waiting for Jesus Christ's Second Coming as a thief (Revelation 16:15). And they will not be appointed to God's wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:9). So Isaiah 26:20 refers to them going into protective chambers which they will have prepared for themselves on the earth, just as Noah and his family went into the protective ark which they had prepared for themselves on the earth (Genesis 7:7). There would be no reason for resurrected, immortal people in heaven to hide (Isaiah 26:20b) from any events happening down on the earth.
Also, Christians can prepare their Isaiah 26:20 chambers now, and hide in them out in the wilderness at some point in our future (Revelation 12:6a), not only during the time of the seven vials (Revelation 16), but also during the just-preceding, literal 3.5 years (Revelation 12:6b) of the future Antichrist's worldwide reign (Revelation 13:5-18). For his reign will involve the wrath of Satan coming against those in the Church (not in hiding) who will still be alive on the earth (Revelation 12:17, Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4-6, Matthew 24:9-13).
One way for Christians to prepare these chambers would be to bury old shipping containers, which shipping and trucking companies could have stacked up in their back lots ready to sell cheaply to anyone who will take them off of their hands.
Once you have one or more shipping containers at your wilderness site, you can rent a bulldozer for a few days and dig big trenches in which to bury them. The trenches need to be deep enough so that you can pile six feet of dirt on top of the containers. For that much dirt is required to stop radiation from nuclear fallout from reaching the containers. Also, six feet of dirt will serve as great insulation, so that no matter how hot or cold it gets on the surface, the shipping containers will always remain a pleasant 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius).
Once you have put the shipping containers in their trenches, you can cut a manhole in the center of the top of each container, and then cut two smaller, six-inch ventilation holes in the top of each end of each container. Then you can attach to each manhole a seven-foot-long vertical PVC pipe with the same diameter as the manhole, and attach to each ventilation hole a seven-foot-long vertical PVC pipe with the same diameter as the ventilation hole. Then you can use the bulldozer to carefully bury the containers without breaking off the vertical pipes.
Then you can place a 16-foot ladder down the manhole pipe of each container. And you can go down into each container and place a small, battery-powered fan inside one of its ventilation holes, to be turned on whenever fresh air is needed in the container. Your containers will then be all set to start stocking with canned food, bottled water, bedding, warm clothing, batteries, sealed buckets for waste, and all other needed supplies whenever you want to do that. You will then need to secure the top of each manhole-pipe with some sort of PVC, perhaps screw-on, cover which can be locked from both the outside when you are away from the container and from the inside when you are in the container. To keep any radioactive dust or ash from entering very far into the ventilation pipes, you can place a cylindrical air filter near the top of each pipe. And to keep rain, insects, and small animals from entering the pipes and affecting the filters, you can place a nylon screen and a side-vented (i.e. perforated) PVC cap over the top of each pipe. Another thing to worry about is floodwater pouring into the pipes. So your wilderness site should not be in a floodplain, but on high-enough ground where it will not be flooded.
Because one of the reasons to go underground is to be hidden from hostile people during the worldwide reign of the future Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast"), you will want to restore the surface of the ground above the buried containers so that it appears as much as possible as it did before you began digging. Also, the tops of the manhole and ventilation pipes of each container will need to be hidden by brush so that any hostile people passing by will not notice them. Also, in case some hostile people with dogs happen to pass by while you are hiding inside a container, you will need to place some long-dead (non-smelling) carcass of a small animal near enough to each ventilation pipe so that if the dogs pick up your scent emanating from a ventilation pipe, the hostile people with the dogs will think that their dogs are just interested in the carcass of the animal and will not start rummaging through the brush and discover the ventilation pipe. Another thing to do would be to set up hidden motion detectors around your site which would alert you in your container if anyone is approaching the area around it. Then you could spray Ozium (a scent eliminator) into your container's ventilation pipes and block them from inside the container to prevent your scent from ascending into the pipes while people with dogs are passing through the area.
Besides camouflaging your underground hideout so that no hostile people will even notice it during the future Antichrist's worldwide reign (in the future Tribulation's second half), before the Tribulation begins and you are still thinking about where in the wilderness to prepare your hideout, you will need to be very circumspect about whom you tell about your plans. You will want to tell only those people who are completely committed to joining you in your hideout. For if you get other people involved in knowing, before the Antichrist's reign, where your hideout is located, then during the Antichrist's reign those people could be captured by the Antichrist's police or soldiers, and under torture or interrogation drugs (e.g. anesthesia), they could divulge the location of your hideout. Or those same people, even if they are not captured, could start to get very hungry during the Antichrist's reign and decide to go out to your hideout and demand to be fed with your supplies, even though you did not store up enough for them, because before the Tribulation they had said that they definitely were not going to join you in your hideout.
Another thing to remember is that before the future Antichrist's worldwide reign (of Revelation 13:4-18), even when communicating with those who are committed to joining you in your hideout during his reign, you must never refer to your hideout's location over the internet, or over a cell phone, smartphone, or landline phone; or audibly even in your own car or home; or audibly in any store, restaurant, workplace, or street equipped with surveillance cameras and microphones, as all of these could be currently tapped and recorded by government surveillance agencies, and their records could later be searched by the Antichrist's police or soldiers to determine your hideout's location. (Government surveillance agencies think that they are protecting "national security", but what they have done is set everything up for the future Antichrist's total surveillance and subjugation of everyone.) So you will have to communicate your hideout's location to others, both currently and in the future, only by ear-whispering (with a covering hand), or by handwritten notes (with a covering hand) which are only given directly and then are burned up immediately after they have been read.
Also, you must not have any device with a GPS chip (such as a cell phone, smartphone, tablet computer, laptop computer, OnStar, MOPAR EVTS, LoJack, Garmin, TomTom, etc.) with you when you are at your hideout, as the GPS chip could be secretly pinged remotely to determine your hideout's location. Also, you can disable any obvious GPS antenna on your car (such as the antennas that look like a little shark fin on the roof, or are a short pole sticking out of the back of the roof) by cutting through the fabric in the ceiling of your car and simply cutting the electric wires leading to the antenna. Also, you will need to have your car, shoes, clothing, and all supplies intended for your hideout electronically-swept for any GPS trackers which have been covertly placed in them by government surveillance agencies, which could get access to your car while it is in the shop, and get access to your home while you are away from it.
Currently, as during the future Tribulation, if you are sure that your car does not have a GPS tracker, whenever you want to keep your cell phone or smartphone with you, but want to avoid having your movements tracked through it, wrap it in a wash cloth, or put it in a cigar box, and wrap the towel or box with aluminum foil so that no phone signals can reach the phone. To make sure that there are no gaps or tears in the foil through which signals can enter, once the phone is in the foil-wrapped towel or box, call it from another phone and see if it rings. If it does, hang up, wrap the towel or box with a second layer of foil and call again. If the phone does not ring, this means that no signals can reach it, and so your movements cannot be tracked through it. Also, look for "Faraday bags" for sale online.
But your movements can still be tracked through license-plate reading cameras attached atop traffic-signal poles at intersections. Perhaps you could place a grating over your license plate with horizontal slats so that the plate can be read from behind but not from a raised angle. And/or you could devise a hinged plate that drops down over your license plate to hide it just momentarily while you are passing through an intersection with a camera, and then raises up again after you have passed through it. (The plate could look like another license plate which says "ORWELL".) The movement of the plate down and up could be initiated by a toggle switch which you could place on your dashboard. But the government is now coming out with license plates that have GPS chips. If these plates ever become mandatory, such as, purportedly, to be able to track lost and stolen plates, you will have to find a way to temporarily disable or jam the chips electronically. Also, you will need to hide your eyes with large, dark sunglasses, and/or place your hand over your nose and mouth, while passing through an intersection with a camera, as the camera could see your face through your windshield, and facial recognition technology is now highly advanced.
But your license plate and face can still be read by roaming police cruisers between intersections. And there could be many license-plate and face-reading cameras located on light poles on long stretches of streets between intersections, and randomly on bridges and other structures out on the open highway. So you will need to carefully look for any cameras located between your current, city home and wilderness hideout. Also, if you notice a police or highway patrol cruiser out on the open highway near to your hideout, you will need to pass by your hideout and make a stop, say, some twenty miles past it, such as at a gas station, and then turn around and head back toward your hideout, turning off onto the dirt road leading to it only if the coast is clear.
Also, when you make your final trip out to your hideout, when you will begin hiding there during the future Antichrist's worldwide reign, you will need to abandon your car miles away from your hideout and walk the rest of the way (out of view of the highway). For otherwise your car could catch the attention of any passing hostile people or patrolling drone aircraft. And even if you abandon your car miles away from your hideout, you will still want to camouflage it with brush to avoid it being seen and starting a general search of the area. Or, if there is not enough brush with which to camouflage it, you can let the air out of one of its tires visible from the road so that people passing on the road will think that your car was left there simply because it got a flat tire.
Some people think that everyone in the cities will try to go out into the wilderness during the future Tribulation. But this may not be the case. For almost all people in the cities do not have hunting/fishing and other wilderness survival skills, and will not know of any well-stocked hideouts in the wilderness. And so they will not think that there is any food out there, or that they will be able to construct any decent shelter out there. They will think of the wilderness as being only barren ground and brush, rocks, trees, and mountains. And so they will stay in the cities where they have shelter, and some chance of finding food. And if the cities come under martial law, they could become the safest places to be, as the military could bring order to them and supply them with emergency food and water.
But martial law will cut both ways in that once the future Antichrist takes over everything (Revelation 13:7-18), the cities could become, in effect, huge military prisons, where people will have to receive the Antichrist's mark on their right hand or forehead if they want to buy any food (Revelation 13:16-17). And everyone will have to worship Lucifer (Satan, the dragon) and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") (Revelation 13:4-10, Revelation 12:9) and a speaking image of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:15) if they do not want to be executed by being beheaded (Revelation 20:4). Christians trapped in the cities must be willing to be beheaded. For if they go ahead and take the mark and worship Lucifer and the Antichrist and his image, then they will ultimately lose their salvation and God will cause them to suffer eternally in fire and brimstone (Revelation 14:9-14).
Christians should not assume that they will necessarily be able to stand up well under the hunger (and possibly torture) and beheading which will be imposed on Christians trapped in the cities during the future Antichrist's worldwide reign. Many Christians could eventually give in and take the mark when their hunger and the hunger of their crying little ones reaches a certain point (Isaiah 8:21-22). And they could give in and worship Lucifer and the Antichrist and his image when they are confronted with they and their little ones being beheaded if they do not do these things. It will be much, much better for Christians to avoid these horrors by fleeing into prepared hiding places in the wilderness right before the Antichrist's 3.5-year worldwide reign of terror begins (Revelation 12:6, Matthew 24:15-16).
"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself..." (Proverbs 22:3, Proverbs 27:12, Proverbs 28:28, Proverbs 28:12b).
(See also Matthew 24:16 and Revelation 12 below)
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(Re: But could not the Antichrist's agents use underground-scanning radar to detect such a hideout as you described above, like how underground-scanning radar has been used today to detect tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border?)
Note that the border is scanned because drug and immigrant-smuggling tunnels have been found there in the past. The Antichrist's agents will not have the time or resources to underground-scan every acre of non-border areas of the world out in the middle of nowhere, with no unusual surface features to suggest that anything is underground there.
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(Re: But would not the Antichrist's agents notice a road in the wilderness going to "nowhere", that is, a track which you made while building your hideout?)
Note that wilderness areas often have thousands of tracks going to nowhere, or forming large loops, made by off-road vehicles on recreational tours. Also, Christians can cover any new tracks which they make while preparing their wilderness hideouts in areas without many other tracks. Or, they can place their hideout along an already-existing track which is so old, and which is so many miles long, and which either eventually loops, or connects two other tracks, that the Antichrist's agents will not have the motive, time, or resources to underground-scan along both sides of every yard of such a track, especially considering how staggeringly vast the world's wilderness areas are, and how many old tracks they contain.
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(Re: But can't the tracks made by off-road vehicles not be used to transport shipping containers?)
They can, if the soil is not too sandy, and the containers are empty.
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(Re: But will not the transport of shipping containers need the same kind of real road which is made for lumber exploitation?)
No, for lumber trucks are extremely heavy when they are fully loaded with tree trunks.
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