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THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF THE LORD

• MEMORY VERSE: ISA 35:10

• THROUGH THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING THE PROCESS BY WHICH GOD WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM ON THIS EARTH WHEN JESUS CHRIST RETURN S. IT HAS INCLUDED THE CONCEPT OF “THE DAY OF THE LORD”, WHICH ACCORDING TO A JEWISH DAY BEGINS WITH DARKNESS AND THEN COMES THE DAYLIGHT. GOD’S PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH BEGINS WITH THE DARKNESS OF THE TRIBULATION AND THEN COMES THE DAYLIGHT OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF CHRIST.
• CHAPTER 34 DISCUSSES THE END OF THE DARKNESS PROCESS WHICH IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON–REFERRED TO AS “THE DAY OF THE LORD’S VENGEANCE AND THE YEAR OF RECOMPENSES” IN VERSE 8.

• READ ISAIAH 34:1-17 JUDGMENT ON GENTILE NATIONS–THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON
• WHO OR WHAT IS BEING JUDGED?
• GENTILE NATIONS AND THEIR ARMIES

• THE NATION OF EDOM (IDUMEA) IS SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED (5) AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST FULFILLMENT. .
• WHY IS EDOM SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED?
• =1= REMEMBER THAT EDOM IS A SYMBOL OF THE REBELLIOUS FLESH NATURE IN ALL MANKIND.
• =2= EDOM IS THE LOCATION OF THE END OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
• =3= EDOM WAS ALWAYS A CLOSE ENEMY OF THE JEWS.
• REMEMBER THAT THE EDOMITES WERE DESCENDED FROM ESAU WHO SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR POT OF RED LENTIL STEW.

• WHY ARE THEY BEING JUDGED?
• THEY ARE JUDGED BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAILED TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD OR GOD’S PEOPLE, THE JEWS.

• READ REV 19:11-18
• WHAT PARALLELS ARE THERE BETWEEN REV 19 AND ISA 34?
• THE BURNING OIL FIELDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST (9-10)
• THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON AND THE RESULTING BURNING OIL FIELDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST ARE PICTURES OR EXAMPLES OF AN ETERNAL HELL.
• THE SWORD BATHED IN HEAVEN (5)
• MAN USES THE SWORD TO CARRY OUT HIS HATRED OR VENGEANCE AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON FOR SOME SELFISH ULTERIOR MOTIVE.
• GOD USES THE SWORD TO BRING JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THIS EARTH.
• THE SACRIFICE IN BOZRAH (6)
• THE SACRIFICE IN BOZRAH IS JESUS CHRIST WHO GOES TO BOZRAH AND PETRA UPON HIS RETURN TO THE EARTH AT THE SECOND COMING.
• REMEMBER THAT GOD WILL HAVE PRESERVED A REMNANT OF JEWS IN PETRA DURING THE LAST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• IN BOZRAH, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON ENDS. CHRIST WILL PRESENT HIMSELF TO THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL WHO ACCEPT HIM AS THEIR MESSIAH.
• READ ISA 63:1-4
• THE REMNANT OF JEWS BELONGING TO GOD IS FOUND SAFE IN PETRA. (16-17)
• AFTER THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, CHRIST GREETS THOSE IN PETRA WHO HAVE INHERITED THE KINGDOM HE WILL ESTABLISH ON EARTH.
• THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS OVER, CHRIST HAS RETURN ED, A NEW DAY DAWNS. WE SEE THIS NEW DAY IN CHAPTER 35. IT IS CHRIST’S THOUSAND YEAR REIGN ON EARTH CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. CHAPTER 35 ENDS THIS SECTION OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
• READ ISA 35:1-10 THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST ON EARTH—THE DAYLIGHT DAWNS.
• WHEN WORLDLY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD, OR IF THEY USE THE TERM ARMAGEDDON, THEY USUALLY VIEW IT AS THE END OF ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET, OR THEY VIEW IT AS TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THIS PLANET. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THERE IS LIFE AFTER ARMAGEDDON…A GLORIOUS LIFE WITH CHRIST ON EARTH. BUT FIRST THERE WILL NEED TO BE SOME CHANGES MADE TO OUR PLANET.
• WHAT CHANGES ARE MADE IN THE PHYSICAL EARTH?
• IN VERSE 11 THE WORDS “CONFUSION AND EMPTINESS” ARE THE SAME HEBREW WORDS THAT WERE USED IN GEN 1:2 WHERE IT SAYS THAT THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID. THAT DEPICTS THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH AFTER THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. THEN CHRIST COMES AND MAKES THINGS NEW.
• LEBANON, CARMEL, AND SHARON (35:2)
• THESE WERE THE THREE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN ISRAEL’S TERRITORY. WHEN CHRIST COMES, HE WILL MAKE THE DESERT EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THESE PLACES OF PAST BEAUTY.
• THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST
• READ LUKE 7:18-23
• HOW DOES THIS PASSAGE IN LUKE RELATE TO ISAIAH 35?
• DESCRIBE THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS

HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 36-37
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• PREPARATION FOR ISA 36
• ISA 36 – 39 IS A SECTION CALLED “THE HISTORIC INTERLUDE”
• RATHER THAN FUTURE PROPHECY, IT TELLS US HISTORY OF THE PAST THAT OCCURRED DURING THE DAYS OF THE REIGN OF GOOD KING HEZEKIAH.
• READ ISA 36
• THE ASSYRIAN FIELD COMMANDER ASKED HEZEKIAH AND THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH, “IN WHAT ARE YOU TRUSTING?” (36:4)
• FIND THE 7 TIMES THE WORD “TRUST” IS USED IN THE KING JAMES (4-15)
• IN WHAT 4 BLASPHEMOUS THINGS DID HE SAY JUDAH WAS FOOLISHLY TRUSTING?
• (VS. 6)
• (VS. 7)
• (VS. 9)
• (VS. 14)
• READ ISA 37
• WHAT 3 THINGS DOES HEZEKIAH SAY TO THE KING OF ASSYRIA IN REPLY? (37:6-7)
• (37:22,31-35)
• (37:23-29)
• (37:30)
• ANALYZE HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER IN 37:14-20). WHAT SPECIFIC THINGS DO YOU LEARN ABOUT A PRAYER OF FAITH?
• WHAT WAS THE MARVELOUS MIRACLE THAT SAVED THE CITY OF JERUSALEM FROM ASSYRIAN INVASION? (37:36)

MEMORY VERSE: PSALMS 126:3