whom The Lord had sent me: Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day: Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all the kings of Tyrus, and of Zidon, and the kings of the Isles which are beyond the sea [the region by the sea-side ?], Dedan, and Tema, and Buz; . and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,-of Zimri, of Elam, of the Medes; and all the kings of the North, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. Therefore thou shalt say unto them, "Thus saith The Lord of Hosts, The God of Israel : 'Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you !" And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, "Thus saith The Lord of Hosts; 'Ye shall certainly drink! For, lo! I begin to bring evil on the city upon which My Name is called, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,' saith the Lord of Hosts." Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, "The Lord shall roar from on High, and utter His Voice from His Holy Habitation; He shall mightily roar upon His Habitation; He shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth [Rev. xiv. 19, 20]. A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for The Lord hath a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith The Lord." [Rev. xix. 19, 21.] Thus saith The Lord of Hosts, "Behold! evil a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth [Rev. xvi. 14]. And the slain of The Lord shall be at that Day shall go forth from nation to nation, and from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground [Rev. xix. 17, 18]. Jer. xxv. 15-33. Ezek. vii. 2-20, 25-27. Thus saith The Lord God unto the Land of Israel; "An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the Land. Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send Mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And Mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord." Thus saith The Lord God; "An evil, an only evil, behold! is come. An end is come, the end is come; it watcheth for thee [awaketh against thee]; behold! it is The Morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the Land the Time is come, the Day of Trouble is near, and not the sounding again [echo] of the mountains. Now will I shortly pour out My fury upon thee, and accomplish Mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and shall know that I am The Lord Who smiteth. come. ye Behold the Day! behold it is come! the Morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude [tumult] nor of any of theirs [their tumultuous persons]: neither shall there be wailing for them. The Time is come, the Day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof: for the vision is touching the neither shall any strengthen himself whose life is in his iniquity. They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for My wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. whole multitude thereof; But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed [for a separation, or uncleanness] their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the Day of the wrath of The Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity [Habak. ii. 19; Rev. xiii. 15-17]. As for the Beauty of His Ornament [Like the "Beauty of Holiness," a name for the Temple? 1 Chr. xvi. 29; Ps. xxix. 2, xcvi. 9: the Place of Beauty or Strength, 2 Sam. i. 19; Dan x. 8], He set it in majesty [2 Chr. iii. 17]: but they made the Images of their Abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them an unclean thing. And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. My Face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute My Secret Place: for the robbers [burglars] shall enter into it, and defile it. none. Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the Prophet; but The Law shall perish from the Priest, and counsel from the ancients [Amos viii. 11-14]. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the Land shall be troubled I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am The Lord. Zech. xii. 1-11. (Jer. xxx. 7; Matt. xxiv. 16-22). "The burden of the word of The Lord for Israel!" saith The Lord, Who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him [Ps. xcvi. 5]. "Behold! I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling [slumber or poison] unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that Day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it" [Rev. xix. 19, xiii. 2; Matt. iv. 8, 9]. "In that Day," saith The Lord, “I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open Mine eyes upon the House of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'There is Strength to me and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem in The Lord of Hosts their God' [Joel iii. 16]. In that Day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the House of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that Day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble [abject, fallen] among them at that Day shall be as David; and the House of David shall be as God, as The Angel of The Lord before them. "And it shall come to pass in that Day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the House of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that Day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon, in the valley of Megiddon [2 Chr. xxxv. 20-25]. DANIEL'S GRIEF IN THE PROSPECT OF THE UNPRECEDENTED TROUBLE: Dan. vii. 15, 16, 28. I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body [Chaldee, sheath], THE ACTUAL ENDURANCE: AND Rev. vi. 9, 11. And when He had opened the Fifth Seal, I saw under the Altar the souls of them and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near unto one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.. Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. Dan. viii. 26, 27. "And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days." [Gabriel.] And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days: afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. Dan. xii. 12, 13. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1,335 days, But go thou thy way till the end be; and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. [Rev. xx. 6.] THE BOOK SEALED, Dan. xii. 4, 8, 9 (viii. 26). But thou, O Daniel! shut up the words, and seal the book! even to the that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled [xii. 17, ix. 1-21, xiii. 5, 7, 15]. Rev. xiii. 10, xiv. 12. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus. Rev. xvii. 6, xviii. 24, 20. And I saw the woman,- Babylon,drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus: And in her was found the blood of Prophets, and of Saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. Rejoice over her, thou heaven! and ye holy Apostles and Prophets! for God hath avenged you on her. Rev. xxii. 20. He Who testifieth these things saith, “Surely I come quickly! Amen!" Even so, come, Lord Jesus!" 66 |