Scripture Verse By Verse (5) Isaiah 34:1-17

In this edition of Scripture Verse by Verse, the host explains why he continues to study and teach the Bible. He then begins to discuss Isaiah chapter 34, focusing on God's anger towards the nations and his plan for punishment. The host describes the gruesome consequences for sinners who refuse to repent and emphasizes that no one will escape God's judgment. The passage also mentions the destruction of Edom and the leaders who will be punished. The host concludes by urging listeners to pray for him and consider supporting the ministry. Welcome to this edition of Scripture Verse by Verse. My name is Michael Marrett and today we're in Isaiah chapter 34 beginning in verse number 1. This is our fifth series going through the whole Bible in the last 34 years. Somebody says, Marrett, why do you do this? Why do you keep doing it? Why don't you stop after the first or the second or the third? Because I just learn new stuff every time I go through the Bible. Every time I go through the Bible I build on what I have previously known and taught and you know there's always room for improvement and I think my recent series are better than the first in some ways. So that's why. And besides, I don't study for messages. This is my fellowship with God and I just give you the overflow. I've never studied for sermons. All the years that I pastored and preached in different churches, I never studied for messages. I never went down the book. I probably would have flunked preaching class. I just study the Word of God and pray to have fellowship with Jesus and just commune with him through the written Word of God and I give you the overflow and it's fun and I love it and that's why I keep doing it. I guess I'll keep doing it till I'm 90. That's my prayer. You pray? Maybe that I can keep doing it till I'm 90? I'm not sure I will but that's what my prayer is. And anyway, on and on I went. Lord, we ask that you would sanctify us by your truth. Your Word is truth. In Jesus' name. Amen. Isaiah 34 verse 1. Come near ye nations to hear and hearken ye peoples. Let the earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all things that come forth from it. So God tells the whole world to listen to what he's about to say. Verse 2. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations and his fury upon all their armies. He hath utterly destroyed them. He hath delivered them to the slaughter. So God says that he is angry at the world and as a result they're going to be punished. And this punishment will take place at the second second coming of Christ. Verse 3. Their slain also shall be cast out and their stench shall come up out of their carcasses and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. God wants to paint a gruesome picture here because that's the way it's going to be. Very gruesome. Rotting flesh is going to be all over the world because when God gets through punishing, no one will be left to bury the dead. God wants this to be an ugly picture because it is an ugly reality for sinners who refuse to repent. This is what you got to look forward to. Verse 4. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth off from the vine and like a falling leaf from the fig tree. When Jesus returns on Judgment Day, the sun, the moon, and the stars are all going to disappear. It's all going to be a part of God's judgment. Verse 5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom and upon the people of my curse to judgment. God will use his sword of judgment to destroy the heavenly bodies. And then after that, he will punish sinful man. And that's how the book of Revelation, that's what the chronology in the book of Revelation teaches as well. Verse 6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Basra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. Basra was the capital of Edom. And Edom had given God's people a hard time during those Old Testament times, just out of spite, out of hatred. And here God is making it clear that despite Edom's great defenses, it's not going to keep them safe from the punishment of God. 7. And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. In other words, blood will cover the land of Edom and nothing will stop it from happening because this is God's wrath because of their sin. Verse 8. For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. In other words, these people had better think twice about saying that they're going to drive Israel into the Mediterranean Sea because God has a fixed day for Edom's punishment and Israel will be rescued. Verse 9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. God says, When I get through with you, Edom, then your soil and your water will not be good for anything anymore. 10. It shall not be quenched night nor day. Its smoke shall go up forever from generation to generation. It shall lie waste. None shall pass through it forever and ever. Edom will become a wasteland, and all those who live on earth and have persecuted God's people in any age, their place of habitation will become a wasteland too, and they will also be destroyed. Verse 11. But the cormorant and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl also, and the raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. It's going to be a mess. It's going to be a mess like the earth was when it was first created in its initial state. It's going to be empty and void, uninhabitable. 12. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. All of Edom's leaders will be destroyed as well. God's judgment does not respect social status. There are no important people to God. Wicked people will be punished no matter who they are, no matter what their social standing might be. 13. And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof, and it shall be an habitation of jackals and a court for ostriches. The castles and the palaces are going to be empty except for the weeds and the thorn bushes that will grow inside of them. That's the future of Edom because they're under the wrath of God, and they are a picture of the whole world. The people who do not repent and take refuge through Christ. 14. The wild beast of the desert shall also meet with the wild beast of the island, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl also shall rest there and find for herself a place of rest. In other words, wild animals will populate the palaces where those proud sinners once lived, thinking, it'll never be anything different. It'll always just be great. We don't have to worry about God. 15. There shall the great owl make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shadow. There shall the kites also be gathered, every one with her mate. Well, the lowest creatures will inhabit the places of Edom, and all these animals mentioned had been designated to be unclean by God's people by the law of Moses. Unclean for God's people. God said so. They're unclean. And those are the filthy, vile types of animals and birds that will settle in the palaces and the castles of Edom. And if they're there, you know they're everywhere else. This is a picture of God's judgment. 16. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read. No one of these shall fail. None shall lack her mate. For my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. In other words, all this is going to happen just as God says that it will. Why? Because his word does not come back to him void. 17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line. They shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. What God has said he will do, he will do. Meaning that God will carry out this judgment upon Edom and upon the whole world of which Edom represents. And with that, we will stop. 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