(Re: But on a track used by off-road vehicles, will not it be impossible that nobody will notice someone trying to bury shipping containers?)
Any tracks on private wilderness land can be temporarily blocked with locked gates at their start and end (but far enough from any public highway so as not to be seen from it). And the private land can be temporarily fenced all around with barbed wire and "No Trespassing" signs (again, not visible from any public highway) to prevent any trespassing while the hideout is being prepared. Then the gates, fence, and signs can be removed once the hideout is completed, so that the area appears to be completely uninhabited.
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(Re: But if it is private land, will not the Antichrist's agents be able to tie your name to the land through county property records?)
Yes, but because the land will appear uninhabited, the Antichrist's agents could not bother searching it. Also, you can pay your property taxes years in advance so that the land will not be visited and impounded, and then auctioned off by the county for unpaid taxes. Or, you can pre-pay in full a years-long lease on the land from a non-Christian owner whom the Antichrist's agents will not be interested in, and whose lease documents are not stored online so as to be easily searched. Or, the land could be leased from a shell corporation set up with so many corporate, holding-company, onion-layer shells underneath it that the Antichrist's agents will give up trying to figure out which individuals actually own the land. And your name could be unconnected with any of the holding companies.
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(Re: But could not the Antichrist recruit millions of people to hunt Christians everywhere in the wilderness, with simple metal detectors?)
No, for simple metal detectors are not able to penetrate six feet underground. And it is unlikely that the Antichrist or any of his followers will want to bother with the relatively few Christians who will be hiding underground in the wilderness during his reign. For such Christians will in no way hinder the Antichrist's rule over the earth. And he will know that even Satan himself (the serpent) will not be able to get to every Christian in the wilderness (Revelation 12:14-16, Revelation 12:9).
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*Isaiah 26:21c / *Isa. 26:21c --
This refers to the earth not covering those who will be slain by Jesus Christ Himself at His future, Second Coming from heaven (Isaiah 26:21a, Revelation 19:11-21), when the bodies of those slain will be eaten by birds instead of being buried (Revelation 19:21).
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*Isaiah 27:1 / *Isa. 27:1 -
This can refer to the future slaying of Satan, when he will be cast into the second death, the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10,14b), after the future Millennium and the subsequent Gog/Magog rebellion (Revelation 20:7-10). For Satan in his true form is a "serpent" and "dragon" (Revelation 12:9).
(See also section 2 of Revelation 13 below)
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*Isaiah 27:9-11 / *Isa. 27:9 -
This could refer to a military defeat of Israel by its enemies shortly before Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For the subsequent verses...
(See Isaiah 27:12 below)
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*Isaiah 27:12-13 / *Isa. 27:12 -
This could occur at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For compare "the great trumpet shall be blown" in Isaiah 27:13 with the Second Coming's "great sound of a trumpet" in Matthew 24:31. Isaiah 27:13b would then refer to the future Millennium (cf. Micah 4:1-4).
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The original Hebrew word (chabat: H2251) translated as "beat off" can mean "thresh" (Judges 6:11).
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*Isaiah 28:2 / *Isa. 28:2 -
This brings to mind the hail part of the seventh vial (Revelation 16:21) of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24.
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*Isaiah 28:5 / *Isa. 28:5 -
This could refer to Jesus Christ during His future, Millennial reign on the earth (Zechariah 14:9).
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*Isaiah 28:9-10 / *Isa. 28:9 -
(Re: Cannot anyone string verses together and make the Bible say whatever they want?)
No, for while anyone can string verses together, they cannot make the Bible say whatever they want. For if they say something which contradicts what the Bible says when it is taken as a whole, then what they are saying is mistaken.
Even when what one verse says appears plain, it can still be misinterpreted, such as by reading into it things that it does not say, things which would contradict what other verses say. To arrive at correct doctrine, a verse in one place in the Bible must be compared with (conditioned by) other, related verses elsewhere in the Bible (Isaiah 28:9-10; 1 Corinthians 2:13). Our doctrine must be based on what the entire Bible says (2 Timothy 3:16, Matthew 4:4), and not just on what some unconditioned verses say.
An example of an unconditioned verse would be John 3:36. We cannot say that it means that all we have to believe is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. For John 3:36 must be conditioned by, for example, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (and vice versa). We have to believe both that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He suffered and died on the Cross for our sins and rose physically from the dead on the third day. So when John 3:36 is conditioned, something is added to it, not subtracted from it. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 adds further belief requirements to John 3:36 (and vice versa). 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 does not contradict the belief requirement of John 3:36 (or vice versa).
Another way that John 3:36 must be conditioned is that we cannot say that it means that all that Christians have to do is believe for at least one moment during their lifetime. For John 3:36 must be conditioned by other Bible verses which show that Christians will obtain ultimate salvation only if they continue to believe to the end (Hebrews 3:6,14, Colossians 1:23). And this is just one of the conditions which the Bible as a whole shows must be met for Christians to obtain ultimate salvation (e.g. Romans 2:6-8; 1 Corinthians 9:27).
(See the "NOSAS" section of Hebrews 3:6 below)
Also, compare how Jesus Christ put a condition on the verse in Matthew 4:6 (Psalms 91:12) with the verse in Matthew 4:7 (Deuteronomy 6:16). When Jesus said: "It is written again" (Matthew 4:7), He was referring to the principle of Isaiah 28:9-10. For in Matthew 4:7 the original Greek word (palin: G3825) translated as "again" can mean "furthermore" (Strong's Greek Dictionary).
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(Re: "*All" in other verses)
The way to know if an "all" in a Bible verse means "all manner of" (e.g. Acts 10:12, John 3:26b) or absolutely all (e.g. Acts 1:24), just as the way to properly interpret any Bible verse, is to compare (condition) it with what other, related Bible verses say (Isaiah 28:10; 1 Corinthians 2:13).
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*Isaiah 28:11-12 / *Isa. 28:11 -
Here tongues are not a sign of judgment, but can be a sign and part of the refreshing (Isaiah 28:12) which comes from God's Holy Spirit subsequent to Christian conversion (Acts 3:19, Acts 2:38, Acts 19:2,6). For tongues edify the spirits of Christians who speak them (1 Corinthians 14:4,14), and, when interpreted, tongues edify others (1 Corinthians 14:5b). But because non-Christians and Spiritually-unlearned Christians see tongues-speaking as "mad" (crazy) (1 Corinthians 14:23), they scorn the refreshing (Isaiah 28:14,11-12). They refuse to hear it (Isaiah 28:12). They forbid it (1 Corinthians 14:39). They quench the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19), by forbidding all speaking in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:39), and despising prophesyings (1 Thessalonians 5:20), if only in a desire to have solely the Bible's precepts (Isaiah 28:12-13).
While it is vital to have the Bible's precepts in order to have correct knowledge and doctrine (Isaiah 28:9-10; 2 Timothy 3:16 to 4:4), this is different than the refreshing. Christians should have both. Tongues and some other Spiritual gifts will cease operating (1 Corinthians 13:8-11) only when the need for the refreshing (Isaiah 28:12) and edification of Christians (1 Corinthians 14:4-5) will cease, which will be only when obedient Christians become perfect, like Jesus Christ, when they see Him face to face at His future, Second Coming from heaven (1 Corinthians 13:10,12; 1 John 3:2).
(See also 1 Corinthians 12:8 below)
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*Isaiah 28:13 / *Isa. 28:13 -
This refers only to those without the baptism of God's Holy Spirit in Isaiah 28:11-12.
(See Isaiah 28:11 and Isaiah 28:9 above)
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*Isaiah 28:22b / *Isa. 28:22b -
This could refer to the destruction of Judah (Isaiah 28:14) by the Babylonians in 586 BC. For in Isaiah 28:22b the original Hebrew word ('erets: H0776) translated as the "earth" can be translated as the "land" (Isaiah 6:12).
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*Isaiah 29 / *Isa. 29 -
Isaiah 29:1-8 could refer to what will happen right before and at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Zechariah 14:1-3,12). And Isaiah 29:17-24 could refer to the subsequent Millennium. But Isaiah 29:9-16 could apply to any time. For example, compare Isaiah 29:13 and Mark 7:6. And compare Isaiah 29:14 on the one hand and Matthew 11:25 and 1 Corinthians 1:19 to 2:16 on the other.
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*Isaiah 29:4 / *Isa. 29:4 -
This can mean that the Jews will be brought low by foreign enemies, so that they will only speak in whispers in their presence. Compare the English phrase: "he spoke in a very low whisper".
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*Isaiah 29:5-7 / *Isa. 29:5 / *Isa. 29:6 / *Isa. 29:7 -
This could refer to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For compare the flame of devouring fire in Isaiah 29:6b with the Second-Coming flaming fire in 2 Thessalonians 1:8. And compare the defeat of Jerusalem's enemies in Isaiah 29:7 with the Second-Coming defeat of Jerusalem's enemies in Zechariah 14:3,12.
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*Isaiah 29:17-24 / *Isa. 29:17 / *Isa. 29:22 / *Isa. 29:24 -
This can refer to the future Millennium (of Revelation 20:4-6).
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*Isaiah 29:20 / *Isa. 29:20 -
The original Hebrew word (shaqad: H8245) translated as "watch" for iniquity can mean to "stay awake" (Psalms 127:1b) for iniquity, in the sense of late-night debauchery. Or, the word can be translated as "hasten" (Jeremiah 1:12) to iniquity, in the sense of Proverbs 1:16a.
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*Isaiah 30:6 / *Isa. 30:6 -
This did not mean that lions and serpents would walk upright or carry their riches on the backs of donkeys or camels. Instead, the "they" in Isaiah 30:6 were "the rebellious children" (Isaiah 30:1) of Judah "that walk to go down into Egypt... to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh" (Isaiah 30:2). The literal lion and serpent in Isaiah 30:6 described what was in "the land of trouble" (Isaiah 30:6), the harsh Sinai desert (Deuteronomy 8:15) which the ancient Jews would have to walk through on their way to Egypt's cities, such as Zoan and Hanes (Isaiah 30:4).
Isaiah 30:1-7 refers to what occurred in the eighth century BC: Jews were wrongly moving down to live among the Egyptians, the "people" in Isaiah 30:6c-7a, thinking that Egypt's military strength, referred to previously as the strength of Pharaoh (Isaiah 30:3), would protect (Isaiah 30:7,5) the Jews from the ruthless Assyrians, who had defeated the northern kingdom of Israel (Samaria) in 722 BC. God wanted the Jews to remain in Judah and trust in God alone for their protection (Isaiah 30:7), like Hezekiah the king of Judah did (Isaiah 37:15-37).
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*Isaiah 30:20-21 / *Isa. 30:20 / *Isa. 30:21 -
This can refer to the future Millennium. For after Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming, He will not be everywhere physically. So Christians will still need teachers (1 Corinthians 12:28) and His Spirit to direct them when they are away from Him physically.
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(Re: Why not contact Him by smartphone?)
There may be no such technology in the future Millennium.
(See Micah 4:4 below)
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*Isaiah 30:26-28 / *Isa. 30:26 / *Isa. 30:28 -
Isaiah 30:26, like Isaiah 62:4, is about the future, blessed time of the Millennium (Isaiah 30:18-26). The bright sun in Isaiah 30:26 is a good thing, just as the bright moon and the healing in Isaiah 30:26 are good things.
Then Isaiah 30:27 starts a new idea, a new paragraph, like is indicated in some copies of the KJV. And Isaiah 30:27 also takes a step back chronologically from Isaiah 30:26, like how, for example, Matthew 14:3 takes a step back chronologically from Matthew 14:2. For Isaiah 30:27-33 is about Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (right before the Millennium), when He will come in flaming fire (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10).
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*Isaiah 30:30-33 / *Isa. 30:30 -
This refers to the future Antichrist's defeat at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (2 Thessalonians 2:8, Revelation 19:20).
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*Isaiah 31:8-9 / *Isa. 31:8 -
This could refer to the ancient Assyrian king Sennacherib's defeat, and his return to his stronghold of Nineveh (Isaiah 37:36-37).
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*Isaiah 32:1-8 / *Isa. 32:1 -
Isaiah 32:1-5 can refer to the future Millennium, while Isaiah 32:6-8 can apply to any time.
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*Isaiah 32:14 / *Isa. 32:14 -
This could refer to what will happen at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming.
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*Isaiah 32:15-18 / *Isa. 32:15 -
This may refer to what will happen to surviving, non-Christian elect Jews at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (cf. Zechariah 12:10-14) and then during the subsequent Millennium (Micah 4:3-4).
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*Isaiah 33 / *Isa. 33 -
This is mostly about Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming and the subsequent Millennium.
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*Isaiah 33:8 / *Isa. 33:8 -
This could refer to what the future Antichrist will do to Judah (southern Israel) after he breaks a seven-year covenant (peace treaty) which he will have made with a future, false Jewish "Messiah" in Jerusalem (Daniel 9:26a,27, Daniel 11:22-23).
(See Daniel 9:26 below, and Psalms 55:20 above)
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*Isaiah 33:12 / *Isa. 33:12 -
This can refer to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming in flaming fire (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10).
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*Isaiah 34:4 / *Isa. 34:4 -
To properly understand Isaiah 34:4, it should be read in its context (Isaiah 34:1-17).
Isaiah 34:4 refers to a future event which will affect "all nations" (Isaiah 34:2), the whole world (Isaiah 34:1).
In Isaiah 34:5, "Idumea" (Edom) is not the ancient nation of Edom (present-day southern Jordan), but represents all nonelect people of all times throughout the world, just as the apostle Paul employs a reference to the man "Esau" (also called Edom: Genesis 25:30, Genesis 36:1) to represent all nonelect people of all times throughout the world (Romans 9:11-22). And in Isaiah 34:6, "Bozrah" is not the ancient city of Bozrah, but represents all corrupt civilizations of all times throughout the world, just as the "Babylon" which will be destroyed in our future in Revelation chapters 17-18 is not the literal, ancient city of Babylon (nor the present-day one, in Iraq), but represents all corrupt civilizations of all times throughout the world.
Isaiah 34 does not refer to the destruction of the ancient city of Bozrah. For its territory is in present-day Jordan, and it is still inhabited (it could be the city of Busaira). It is not an eternally-burning land of fire and brimstone which no living person ever passes through, and will not ever pass through for all eternity (Isaiah 34:9-10).
Isaiah 34 will not be fulfilled until the future, Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), when the present surface of the earth and its atmosphere (the first heaven) will pass away (Revelation 20:11). And all nonelect people of all times throughout the world will be resurrected, judged, and cast into the eternal suffering of the lake of fire and brimstone (Revelation 20:15,10, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 14:10-11).
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(Re: Does not the sky rolling up like a scroll mean that this is the sixth seal?)
No, the sky rolling up like a scroll in both Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:14 does not require that they are the same event, just as, for example, the similarity between Matthew 24:29 and Revelation 6:12-13 does not (as is sometimes claimed) require that they are the same event.
(See section 5 of Revelation 6:12 below)
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*Isaiah 34:8 / *Isa. 34:8 -
Bible verses such as Isaiah 34:8 do not have to be read literally. Indeed, they cannot be literal and be referring to the same period of time as both a "day" and a "year". The apostle Peter says that a "day" to the Lord can last 1,000 years (2 Peter 3:8). And if a "day" to the Lord does not have to be literal, then neither does a "year". In some cases, they could be poetic ways of referring to a particular period of time, no matter how long it lasts. And when a reference to a "year" immediately follows the reference to a "day", this could be a poetic way to express emphasis, like we might say: "I'll be with you in a second; I'll be with you in a minute". That is, neither of these has to be literal, and they can both refer to the same indefinite (although in this case, hopefully short) period of time.
(See also Luke 4:19 below)
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*Isaiah 35:1-10 / *Isa. 35:1 -
This refers to the future Millennium.
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*Isaiah 35:9 / *Isa. 35:9 -
This means that no violent, unredeemed, literal animals will be on, ascend onto, or come forth onto the literal future highway/walkway of Isaiah 35:8. This highway/walkway will exist during the future Millennium, and will run from Assyria (present-day Iraq) to Egypt (Isaiah 19:23-25), passing through Israel (Isaiah 11:16), so that people (and redeemed animals) in that region can easily walk to Jerusalem (Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 11:6-16) to worship the physically-returned Jesus Christ there (Isaiah 2:1-4, Zechariah 14:8-11,20-21).
The first three phrases of Isaiah 35:9 are not a repetition or synthetic parallelism, but express three distinct ideas:
1. The idea of no literal, violent lion already "being" (Hebrew: hayah, H1961), that is, already standing, lying down, or walking on the literal highway of Isaiah 35:8.
2. The idea of no literal, violent animal "going up" (ascending: Hebrew: "alah", H5927) onto a raised portion of the highway.
3. The idea of no literal, violent animal being "found", in the literal sense of "coming forth" (Hebrew: matsa, H4672), for example from bushes alongside, onto a non-raised portion of the highway.
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(Re: Is not it about the Church?)
Yes, insofar as in Isaiah 35:9 the absence of literal, violent lions and all other literal, violent animals is in contrast to the presence of "the redeemed", which refers to Christians (Revelation 5:9). But not only Christians, but also every kind of literal animal. For they too will all be redeemed (Romans 8:19-25), so that they will all become non-violent toward each other and people (Isaiah 11:6-8).
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(Re: Does not a literal reading here contradict a literal reading of Isaiah 11:6?)
No, for Isaiah 35:9 and Isaiah 11:6 are both literal, and do not contradict each other. For in Isaiah 35:9, "no lion" means no violent lion. For it is immediately followed by "nor any ravenous [i.e. violent] beast". In both cases the animals are literal. Literal lions in the future Millennium will be miraculously changed by God so that they will be peaceful (Isaiah 11:6), and eat straw (Isaiah 11:7), instead of attacking other animals or people, such as while they are walking along a highway (Isaiah 35:8-9).
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*Isaiah 35:10 / *Isa. 35:10 -
Sorrow will flee away (Isaiah 35:10) from obedient Christians at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming, when physical death will be no more for them. For at that time, they will be resurrected (if dead) or changed (if alive) into immortal physical bodies like Jesus was resurrected into at His first coming, on the third day after His death (Luke 24:39,46; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4,21-23,51-53, Philippians 3:21, Romans 8:23-25).
1 Corinthians 15:54b quotes from Isaiah 25:8, which also includes God wiping away the tears of Christians, and which also shows that this will happen at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Isaiah 25:9), just as Isaiah 25:6 refers to the literal feast which will occur at the Second Coming (Revelation 19:9 to 20:6). Right after the Second Coming will begin the Millennium (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6, Zechariah 14:3-21), which is the time frame of Isaiah 35:8-10, as well as of Isaiah 11:6-16, right before which the Second Coming is referred to (Isaiah 11:4, cf. Revelation 19:7-21).
Isaiah 65:19 and Revelation 21:4 will be during the future, New Earth (Isaiah 65:17, Revelation 21:1), as in a new surface for the earth, which will not be made by God until after the future Millennium and subsequent events (Revelation 20:7 to 21:1).
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*Isaiah chapters 36-37 / *Isa. chs. 36-37 -
See Isaiah 10:5 to Isaiah 10:28 above.
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*Isaiah 38:18a / *Isa. 38:18a -
See the "Soul sleep?" section of 1 Corinthians 15:51 below.
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*Isaiah 40:3-5 / *Isa. 40:3 -
Luke 3:2b-6 connects Isaiah 40:3-5 with John the Baptist's ministry.
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*Isaiah 40:8 / *Isa. 40:8 -
(Re: Mosaic law)
See Psalms 119:89 above.
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Any tracks on private wilderness land can be temporarily blocked with locked gates at their start and end (but far enough from any public highway so as not to be seen from it). And the private land can be temporarily fenced all around with barbed wire and "No Trespassing" signs (again, not visible from any public highway) to prevent any trespassing while the hideout is being prepared. Then the gates, fence, and signs can be removed once the hideout is completed, so that the area appears to be completely uninhabited.
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(Re: But if it is private land, will not the Antichrist's agents be able to tie your name to the land through county property records?)
Yes, but because the land will appear uninhabited, the Antichrist's agents could not bother searching it. Also, you can pay your property taxes years in advance so that the land will not be visited and impounded, and then auctioned off by the county for unpaid taxes. Or, you can pre-pay in full a years-long lease on the land from a non-Christian owner whom the Antichrist's agents will not be interested in, and whose lease documents are not stored online so as to be easily searched. Or, the land could be leased from a shell corporation set up with so many corporate, holding-company, onion-layer shells underneath it that the Antichrist's agents will give up trying to figure out which individuals actually own the land. And your name could be unconnected with any of the holding companies.
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(Re: But could not the Antichrist recruit millions of people to hunt Christians everywhere in the wilderness, with simple metal detectors?)
No, for simple metal detectors are not able to penetrate six feet underground. And it is unlikely that the Antichrist or any of his followers will want to bother with the relatively few Christians who will be hiding underground in the wilderness during his reign. For such Christians will in no way hinder the Antichrist's rule over the earth. And he will know that even Satan himself (the serpent) will not be able to get to every Christian in the wilderness (Revelation 12:14-16, Revelation 12:9).
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*Isaiah 26:21c / *Isa. 26:21c --
This refers to the earth not covering those who will be slain by Jesus Christ Himself at His future, Second Coming from heaven (Isaiah 26:21a, Revelation 19:11-21), when the bodies of those slain will be eaten by birds instead of being buried (Revelation 19:21).
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*Isaiah 27:1 / *Isa. 27:1 -
This can refer to the future slaying of Satan, when he will be cast into the second death, the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10,14b), after the future Millennium and the subsequent Gog/Magog rebellion (Revelation 20:7-10). For Satan in his true form is a "serpent" and "dragon" (Revelation 12:9).
(See also section 2 of Revelation 13 below)
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*Isaiah 27:9-11 / *Isa. 27:9 -
This could refer to a military defeat of Israel by its enemies shortly before Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For the subsequent verses...
(See Isaiah 27:12 below)
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*Isaiah 27:12-13 / *Isa. 27:12 -
This could occur at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For compare "the great trumpet shall be blown" in Isaiah 27:13 with the Second Coming's "great sound of a trumpet" in Matthew 24:31. Isaiah 27:13b would then refer to the future Millennium (cf. Micah 4:1-4).
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The original Hebrew word (chabat: H2251) translated as "beat off" can mean "thresh" (Judges 6:11).
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*Isaiah 28:2 / *Isa. 28:2 -
This brings to mind the hail part of the seventh vial (Revelation 16:21) of the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24.
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*Isaiah 28:5 / *Isa. 28:5 -
This could refer to Jesus Christ during His future, Millennial reign on the earth (Zechariah 14:9).
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*Isaiah 28:9-10 / *Isa. 28:9 -
(Re: Cannot anyone string verses together and make the Bible say whatever they want?)
No, for while anyone can string verses together, they cannot make the Bible say whatever they want. For if they say something which contradicts what the Bible says when it is taken as a whole, then what they are saying is mistaken.
Even when what one verse says appears plain, it can still be misinterpreted, such as by reading into it things that it does not say, things which would contradict what other verses say. To arrive at correct doctrine, a verse in one place in the Bible must be compared with (conditioned by) other, related verses elsewhere in the Bible (Isaiah 28:9-10; 1 Corinthians 2:13). Our doctrine must be based on what the entire Bible says (2 Timothy 3:16, Matthew 4:4), and not just on what some unconditioned verses say.
An example of an unconditioned verse would be John 3:36. We cannot say that it means that all we have to believe is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. For John 3:36 must be conditioned by, for example, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (and vice versa). We have to believe both that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He suffered and died on the Cross for our sins and rose physically from the dead on the third day. So when John 3:36 is conditioned, something is added to it, not subtracted from it. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 adds further belief requirements to John 3:36 (and vice versa). 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 does not contradict the belief requirement of John 3:36 (or vice versa).
Another way that John 3:36 must be conditioned is that we cannot say that it means that all that Christians have to do is believe for at least one moment during their lifetime. For John 3:36 must be conditioned by other Bible verses which show that Christians will obtain ultimate salvation only if they continue to believe to the end (Hebrews 3:6,14, Colossians 1:23). And this is just one of the conditions which the Bible as a whole shows must be met for Christians to obtain ultimate salvation (e.g. Romans 2:6-8; 1 Corinthians 9:27).
(See the "NOSAS" section of Hebrews 3:6 below)
Also, compare how Jesus Christ put a condition on the verse in Matthew 4:6 (Psalms 91:12) with the verse in Matthew 4:7 (Deuteronomy 6:16). When Jesus said: "It is written again" (Matthew 4:7), He was referring to the principle of Isaiah 28:9-10. For in Matthew 4:7 the original Greek word (palin: G3825) translated as "again" can mean "furthermore" (Strong's Greek Dictionary).
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(Re: "*All" in other verses)
The way to know if an "all" in a Bible verse means "all manner of" (e.g. Acts 10:12, John 3:26b) or absolutely all (e.g. Acts 1:24), just as the way to properly interpret any Bible verse, is to compare (condition) it with what other, related Bible verses say (Isaiah 28:10; 1 Corinthians 2:13).
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*Isaiah 28:11-12 / *Isa. 28:11 -
Here tongues are not a sign of judgment, but can be a sign and part of the refreshing (Isaiah 28:12) which comes from God's Holy Spirit subsequent to Christian conversion (Acts 3:19, Acts 2:38, Acts 19:2,6). For tongues edify the spirits of Christians who speak them (1 Corinthians 14:4,14), and, when interpreted, tongues edify others (1 Corinthians 14:5b). But because non-Christians and Spiritually-unlearned Christians see tongues-speaking as "mad" (crazy) (1 Corinthians 14:23), they scorn the refreshing (Isaiah 28:14,11-12). They refuse to hear it (Isaiah 28:12). They forbid it (1 Corinthians 14:39). They quench the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19), by forbidding all speaking in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:39), and despising prophesyings (1 Thessalonians 5:20), if only in a desire to have solely the Bible's precepts (Isaiah 28:12-13).
While it is vital to have the Bible's precepts in order to have correct knowledge and doctrine (Isaiah 28:9-10; 2 Timothy 3:16 to 4:4), this is different than the refreshing. Christians should have both. Tongues and some other Spiritual gifts will cease operating (1 Corinthians 13:8-11) only when the need for the refreshing (Isaiah 28:12) and edification of Christians (1 Corinthians 14:4-5) will cease, which will be only when obedient Christians become perfect, like Jesus Christ, when they see Him face to face at His future, Second Coming from heaven (1 Corinthians 13:10,12; 1 John 3:2).
(See also 1 Corinthians 12:8 below)
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*Isaiah 28:13 / *Isa. 28:13 -
This refers only to those without the baptism of God's Holy Spirit in Isaiah 28:11-12.
(See Isaiah 28:11 and Isaiah 28:9 above)
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*Isaiah 28:22b / *Isa. 28:22b -
This could refer to the destruction of Judah (Isaiah 28:14) by the Babylonians in 586 BC. For in Isaiah 28:22b the original Hebrew word ('erets: H0776) translated as the "earth" can be translated as the "land" (Isaiah 6:12).
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*Isaiah 29 / *Isa. 29 -
Isaiah 29:1-8 could refer to what will happen right before and at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Zechariah 14:1-3,12). And Isaiah 29:17-24 could refer to the subsequent Millennium. But Isaiah 29:9-16 could apply to any time. For example, compare Isaiah 29:13 and Mark 7:6. And compare Isaiah 29:14 on the one hand and Matthew 11:25 and 1 Corinthians 1:19 to 2:16 on the other.
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*Isaiah 29:4 / *Isa. 29:4 -
This can mean that the Jews will be brought low by foreign enemies, so that they will only speak in whispers in their presence. Compare the English phrase: "he spoke in a very low whisper".
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*Isaiah 29:5-7 / *Isa. 29:5 / *Isa. 29:6 / *Isa. 29:7 -
This could refer to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For compare the flame of devouring fire in Isaiah 29:6b with the Second-Coming flaming fire in 2 Thessalonians 1:8. And compare the defeat of Jerusalem's enemies in Isaiah 29:7 with the Second-Coming defeat of Jerusalem's enemies in Zechariah 14:3,12.
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*Isaiah 29:17-24 / *Isa. 29:17 / *Isa. 29:22 / *Isa. 29:24 -
This can refer to the future Millennium (of Revelation 20:4-6).
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*Isaiah 29:20 / *Isa. 29:20 -
The original Hebrew word (shaqad: H8245) translated as "watch" for iniquity can mean to "stay awake" (Psalms 127:1b) for iniquity, in the sense of late-night debauchery. Or, the word can be translated as "hasten" (Jeremiah 1:12) to iniquity, in the sense of Proverbs 1:16a.
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*Isaiah 30:6 / *Isa. 30:6 -
This did not mean that lions and serpents would walk upright or carry their riches on the backs of donkeys or camels. Instead, the "they" in Isaiah 30:6 were "the rebellious children" (Isaiah 30:1) of Judah "that walk to go down into Egypt... to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh" (Isaiah 30:2). The literal lion and serpent in Isaiah 30:6 described what was in "the land of trouble" (Isaiah 30:6), the harsh Sinai desert (Deuteronomy 8:15) which the ancient Jews would have to walk through on their way to Egypt's cities, such as Zoan and Hanes (Isaiah 30:4).
Isaiah 30:1-7 refers to what occurred in the eighth century BC: Jews were wrongly moving down to live among the Egyptians, the "people" in Isaiah 30:6c-7a, thinking that Egypt's military strength, referred to previously as the strength of Pharaoh (Isaiah 30:3), would protect (Isaiah 30:7,5) the Jews from the ruthless Assyrians, who had defeated the northern kingdom of Israel (Samaria) in 722 BC. God wanted the Jews to remain in Judah and trust in God alone for their protection (Isaiah 30:7), like Hezekiah the king of Judah did (Isaiah 37:15-37).
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*Isaiah 30:20-21 / *Isa. 30:20 / *Isa. 30:21 -
This can refer to the future Millennium. For after Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming, He will not be everywhere physically. So Christians will still need teachers (1 Corinthians 12:28) and His Spirit to direct them when they are away from Him physically.
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(Re: Why not contact Him by smartphone?)
There may be no such technology in the future Millennium.
(See Micah 4:4 below)
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*Isaiah 30:26-28 / *Isa. 30:26 / *Isa. 30:28 -
Isaiah 30:26, like Isaiah 62:4, is about the future, blessed time of the Millennium (Isaiah 30:18-26). The bright sun in Isaiah 30:26 is a good thing, just as the bright moon and the healing in Isaiah 30:26 are good things.
Then Isaiah 30:27 starts a new idea, a new paragraph, like is indicated in some copies of the KJV. And Isaiah 30:27 also takes a step back chronologically from Isaiah 30:26, like how, for example, Matthew 14:3 takes a step back chronologically from Matthew 14:2. For Isaiah 30:27-33 is about Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (right before the Millennium), when He will come in flaming fire (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10).
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*Isaiah 30:30-33 / *Isa. 30:30 -
This refers to the future Antichrist's defeat at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (2 Thessalonians 2:8, Revelation 19:20).
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*Isaiah 31:8-9 / *Isa. 31:8 -
This could refer to the ancient Assyrian king Sennacherib's defeat, and his return to his stronghold of Nineveh (Isaiah 37:36-37).
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*Isaiah 32:1-8 / *Isa. 32:1 -
Isaiah 32:1-5 can refer to the future Millennium, while Isaiah 32:6-8 can apply to any time.
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*Isaiah 32:14 / *Isa. 32:14 -
This could refer to what will happen at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming.
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*Isaiah 32:15-18 / *Isa. 32:15 -
This may refer to what will happen to surviving, non-Christian elect Jews at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (cf. Zechariah 12:10-14) and then during the subsequent Millennium (Micah 4:3-4).
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*Isaiah 33 / *Isa. 33 -
This is mostly about Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming and the subsequent Millennium.
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*Isaiah 33:8 / *Isa. 33:8 -
This could refer to what the future Antichrist will do to Judah (southern Israel) after he breaks a seven-year covenant (peace treaty) which he will have made with a future, false Jewish "Messiah" in Jerusalem (Daniel 9:26a,27, Daniel 11:22-23).
(See Daniel 9:26 below, and Psalms 55:20 above)
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*Isaiah 33:12 / *Isa. 33:12 -
This can refer to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming in flaming fire (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10).
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*Isaiah 34:4 / *Isa. 34:4 -
To properly understand Isaiah 34:4, it should be read in its context (Isaiah 34:1-17).
Isaiah 34:4 refers to a future event which will affect "all nations" (Isaiah 34:2), the whole world (Isaiah 34:1).
In Isaiah 34:5, "Idumea" (Edom) is not the ancient nation of Edom (present-day southern Jordan), but represents all nonelect people of all times throughout the world, just as the apostle Paul employs a reference to the man "Esau" (also called Edom: Genesis 25:30, Genesis 36:1) to represent all nonelect people of all times throughout the world (Romans 9:11-22). And in Isaiah 34:6, "Bozrah" is not the ancient city of Bozrah, but represents all corrupt civilizations of all times throughout the world, just as the "Babylon" which will be destroyed in our future in Revelation chapters 17-18 is not the literal, ancient city of Babylon (nor the present-day one, in Iraq), but represents all corrupt civilizations of all times throughout the world.
Isaiah 34 does not refer to the destruction of the ancient city of Bozrah. For its territory is in present-day Jordan, and it is still inhabited (it could be the city of Busaira). It is not an eternally-burning land of fire and brimstone which no living person ever passes through, and will not ever pass through for all eternity (Isaiah 34:9-10).
Isaiah 34 will not be fulfilled until the future, Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), when the present surface of the earth and its atmosphere (the first heaven) will pass away (Revelation 20:11). And all nonelect people of all times throughout the world will be resurrected, judged, and cast into the eternal suffering of the lake of fire and brimstone (Revelation 20:15,10, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 14:10-11).
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(Re: Does not the sky rolling up like a scroll mean that this is the sixth seal?)
No, the sky rolling up like a scroll in both Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:14 does not require that they are the same event, just as, for example, the similarity between Matthew 24:29 and Revelation 6:12-13 does not (as is sometimes claimed) require that they are the same event.
(See section 5 of Revelation 6:12 below)
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*Isaiah 34:8 / *Isa. 34:8 -
Bible verses such as Isaiah 34:8 do not have to be read literally. Indeed, they cannot be literal and be referring to the same period of time as both a "day" and a "year". The apostle Peter says that a "day" to the Lord can last 1,000 years (2 Peter 3:8). And if a "day" to the Lord does not have to be literal, then neither does a "year". In some cases, they could be poetic ways of referring to a particular period of time, no matter how long it lasts. And when a reference to a "year" immediately follows the reference to a "day", this could be a poetic way to express emphasis, like we might say: "I'll be with you in a second; I'll be with you in a minute". That is, neither of these has to be literal, and they can both refer to the same indefinite (although in this case, hopefully short) period of time.
(See also Luke 4:19 below)
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*Isaiah 35:1-10 / *Isa. 35:1 -
This refers to the future Millennium.
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*Isaiah 35:9 / *Isa. 35:9 -
This means that no violent, unredeemed, literal animals will be on, ascend onto, or come forth onto the literal future highway/walkway of Isaiah 35:8. This highway/walkway will exist during the future Millennium, and will run from Assyria (present-day Iraq) to Egypt (Isaiah 19:23-25), passing through Israel (Isaiah 11:16), so that people (and redeemed animals) in that region can easily walk to Jerusalem (Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 11:6-16) to worship the physically-returned Jesus Christ there (Isaiah 2:1-4, Zechariah 14:8-11,20-21).
The first three phrases of Isaiah 35:9 are not a repetition or synthetic parallelism, but express three distinct ideas:
1. The idea of no literal, violent lion already "being" (Hebrew: hayah, H1961), that is, already standing, lying down, or walking on the literal highway of Isaiah 35:8.
2. The idea of no literal, violent animal "going up" (ascending: Hebrew: "alah", H5927) onto a raised portion of the highway.
3. The idea of no literal, violent animal being "found", in the literal sense of "coming forth" (Hebrew: matsa, H4672), for example from bushes alongside, onto a non-raised portion of the highway.
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(Re: Is not it about the Church?)
Yes, insofar as in Isaiah 35:9 the absence of literal, violent lions and all other literal, violent animals is in contrast to the presence of "the redeemed", which refers to Christians (Revelation 5:9). But not only Christians, but also every kind of literal animal. For they too will all be redeemed (Romans 8:19-25), so that they will all become non-violent toward each other and people (Isaiah 11:6-8).
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(Re: Does not a literal reading here contradict a literal reading of Isaiah 11:6?)
No, for Isaiah 35:9 and Isaiah 11:6 are both literal, and do not contradict each other. For in Isaiah 35:9, "no lion" means no violent lion. For it is immediately followed by "nor any ravenous [i.e. violent] beast". In both cases the animals are literal. Literal lions in the future Millennium will be miraculously changed by God so that they will be peaceful (Isaiah 11:6), and eat straw (Isaiah 11:7), instead of attacking other animals or people, such as while they are walking along a highway (Isaiah 35:8-9).
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*Isaiah 35:10 / *Isa. 35:10 -
Sorrow will flee away (Isaiah 35:10) from obedient Christians at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming, when physical death will be no more for them. For at that time, they will be resurrected (if dead) or changed (if alive) into immortal physical bodies like Jesus was resurrected into at His first coming, on the third day after His death (Luke 24:39,46; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4,21-23,51-53, Philippians 3:21, Romans 8:23-25).
1 Corinthians 15:54b quotes from Isaiah 25:8, which also includes God wiping away the tears of Christians, and which also shows that this will happen at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Isaiah 25:9), just as Isaiah 25:6 refers to the literal feast which will occur at the Second Coming (Revelation 19:9 to 20:6). Right after the Second Coming will begin the Millennium (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6, Zechariah 14:3-21), which is the time frame of Isaiah 35:8-10, as well as of Isaiah 11:6-16, right before which the Second Coming is referred to (Isaiah 11:4, cf. Revelation 19:7-21).
Isaiah 65:19 and Revelation 21:4 will be during the future, New Earth (Isaiah 65:17, Revelation 21:1), as in a new surface for the earth, which will not be made by God until after the future Millennium and subsequent events (Revelation 20:7 to 21:1).
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*Isaiah chapters 36-37 / *Isa. chs. 36-37 -
See Isaiah 10:5 to Isaiah 10:28 above.
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*Isaiah 38:18a / *Isa. 38:18a -
See the "Soul sleep?" section of 1 Corinthians 15:51 below.
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*Isaiah 40:3-5 / *Isa. 40:3 -
Luke 3:2b-6 connects Isaiah 40:3-5 with John the Baptist's ministry.
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*Isaiah 40:8 / *Isa. 40:8 -
(Re: Mosaic law)
See Psalms 119:89 above.
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