Title: Judgment on Babylon/Isaiah 13
Judgment on Babylon
Isaiah 13
1. God Calling Heroes (1-5)
① Calling up an army to carry out God’s judgment (1-3)
② God censoring the army and the assembled crowd
2. Description of the judgment (6-16)
Isaiah speaks of Babylon's judgment coming in the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord is a day of salvation for those who believe and a day of judgment for those who do not believe. In that day all hands will be weary, hearts will melt, and there will be astonishment and pain like a pregnant woman. (6-8)
Isaiah expands the judgment on the day of the Lord and interprets it in connection with the universal final judgment. The judgment in the day of the Lord will be a day of cruel wrath and fierce wrath, and the earth will become desolate, and the sky will be darkened (9-10).
In that day the arrogance of the sinner and the proud and the arrogance of the fierce will be crushed, and in that day there will be a sharp decline in the population. (11-12)
He will judge Babylon thoroughly (13-16).
3. Description of the judgment results (17-22)
Babylon was a powerful and glorious nation. But God judges through the Medes to make complete ruins.
The bowed Medes will destroy Babylon like Sodom and Gomorrah by brutally killing young men and wombs and children. (17-19)
In the end, Babylon will be turned into an uninhabited wasteland, with no resident people, and not even the passing merchants or shepherds who tend to their sheep, pitching their tents, only dark animals such as wild dogs, ostriches, owls, and crows . (20-22)
Jehovah God is the master of world history.
All forces that oppose God will be judged.
God's judgment is very frightening.