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ISAIAH 63 AND 64
Lesson #49
THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON AND A REVIVAL

• MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 64:8

• READ ISA 63:1-6 THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE WINEPRESS
  • THERE ARE SEVERAL PICTURESQUE SYMBOLS RELATED HERE IN THESE 6 VERSES.
    • EDOM
      • EDOM WAS THE LAND OF ESAU. ESAU WAS A ROUGH MAN WITH REDDISH COLORED SKIN. (GEN 25:25,30) IN THE BIBLE HE SYMBOLIZES THE FLESH NATURE OF MAN BECAUSE HE SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR A RED-COLORED STEW. THEREFORE, ESAU’S NICKNAME BECAME “EDOM”. THE LAND HIS PEOPLE INHABITED CONSISTED OF RED COLORED ROCKS. (THE RED COLORED CITY OF PETRA IS LOCATED IN THIS LAND). THEREFORE, THE NAME EDOM MEANS = RED
    • BOZRAH
      • THE CITY OF BOZRAH IS LOCATED IN THE LAND OF EDOM JUST NORTH OF PETRA. THE MEANING OF THE WORD, BOZRAH, IS = GRAPE GATHERING. IT IS THE SOUTHERN MOST EXTENT OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
    • THE WINEPRESS
      • THE WINEPRESS WAS MADE FROM A VERY LARGE, HOLLOWED ROCK. THE HARVESTING OF GRAPES WAS DONE BY CRUSHING THE BERRIES WITH THE BARE FEET. THE JUICE RAN OUT A HOLE IN THE ROCK AND WAS CAUGHT INTO PITCHERS. NOT ONLY DID THE RED COLOR TRANSFER ONTO THE SKIN OF THOSE TRAMPLING THE GRAPES, BUT IT ALSO STAINED THE BOTTOM OF THE ROBES THAT WERE TIED UP AROUND THE WAIST.
        • THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE, THE WINEPRESS IS A SYMBOL OF JUDGMENT. (LAM 1:15)
          • GOD USES THIS ILLUSTRATION OF THE WINEPRESS TO GIVE US A PICTURE OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
          • READ REV 14:11-20 REV 19:11-21 (JOEL 3:13)
            • THEREFORE, THE EVENT COVERED IN ISA 63:1-6 IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON WHICH EXTENDS FROM MEGIDDO TO THE NORTH TO BOZRAH IN THE SOUTH. (184 MILES – REV 14:20)
  • THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON
    • REMEMBER THAT ISA 61:2 SPOKE ABOUT THE “DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD”? WE SAW THAT JESUS DID NOT READ THAT PART OF THE PROPHECY IN LUK 4:16-21 WHEN HE CAME THE FIRST TIME. HE, THEREFORE, INDICATED THAT THIS DAY OF VENGEANCE WOULD BE FULFILLED AT HIS SECOND COMING.
      • THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON BEGINS IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO, NORTH OF JERUSALEM, AND SPREADS SOUTHWARD.. INITIALLY IT IS THE ANTI-CHRIST AGAINST NATIONS OF THE WORLD THAT OPPOSE HIS WORLD LEADERSHIP. BEFORE TOTAL HUMAN DESTRUCTION CAN TAKE PLACE, JESUS APPEARS IN THE SKY WITH ALL RAPTURED BELIEVERS. HE SETS HIS FOOT ON THE MT. OF OLIVES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. AT HIS APPEARING, NATIONS OF THE WORLD TURN AND FIGHT AGAINST HIM. THE ENEMIES OF GOD WILL BE CRUSHED LIKE GRAPES. (JER 25:15-17) JESUS’ ROBES WILL BE STAINED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE NON-BELIEVERS WHO DIE IN THIS BATTLE.
    • “I HAVE TRODDEN THE WINEPRESS ALONE…” (ISA 63:3)
      • WHILE WE WHO ARE RAPTURED BELIEVERS COME WITH HIM AT THE SECOND COMING, WE DO NOT ENGAGE IN THE BATTLE. HE DIED ON THE CROSS ALONE WINNING THE BATTLE AGAINST SATAN. HE WILL FIGHT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON ALONE, WINNING THE BATTLE AGAINST THE ANTI-CHRIST AND ALL NON-BELIEVERS.

• READ ISA 63:7-19 THE PRAYER FOR REVIVAL
  • THE CONTRASTING NATURE OF GOD
    • THIS CHAPTER CONTRASTS GOD’S WRATH WITH GOD’S LOVING KINDNESS.
      • THE QUESTION COMES TO MIND, WHERE WILL BE GOD’S CONVERTED JEWS DURING THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON?
      • READ MICAH 2:12-13
        • THEY WILL BE PROTECTED FROM THE SLAUGHTER.
  • 144,000 PROTECTED IN PETRA. (REV 12:6
    • ISA 16:1-5)
  • THE JEWS WHO ACCEPT CHRIST AS THEIR MESSIAH WHEN HE COMES WILL BE GATHERED IN BOZRAH. (MIC 2:12-13)
    • WHAT QUALITIES OF GOD DO YOU DISCOVER IN THIS PASSAGE?

• THE REFERENCE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT (63:11)
  • WE HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL REFERENCE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT IS UNUSUAL IN THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS DIFFERENT THAN THAT ROLE TODAY. IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES, THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES AND LIVES WITHIN THE BELIEVER..
  • IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD COME AND ANOINT, GUIDE, AND INDWELL A PERSON FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME TO ACCOMPLISH SOME SPECIFIC TASK. HE DID NOT INDWELL PERMANENTLY.

• READ ISA 64:1-12
  • WHO IS PRAYING THIS PRAYER?
    • READ 1COR 2:9-10
      • THIS IS A QUOTE BY PAUL FROM ISA 64:4. IT INDICATES THE SAME ANTICIPATING DESIRE OF ALL BELIEVERS THROUGH ALL THE AGES WHETHER BEFORE THE FIRST COMING OR BEFORE THE SECOND COMING. WE ALL EAGERLY WAIT FOR THE LORD’S SECOND COMING. THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS “THE BLESSED HOPE.”
        • READ TITUS 2:13-14
  • MAN’S LOST CONDITION THROUGH THE AGES: (64:6)
    • NOTICE IT SAYS THAT “WE ARE ALL” AN UNCLEAN THING. ALL MANKIND ARE SINNERS WHO CANNOT SAVE THEMSELVES BECAUSE OUR “GOOD WORKS” OR OUR “GOOD LIFESTYLE” IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH. OUR GOOD DEEDS ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS (LITERALLY LIKE MENSTRUAL CLOTHS) IN CONTRAST TO GOD’S HOLINESS AND GLORY.
    • THE FUTURE DESOLATION OF ISRAEL, JERUSALEM, AND THE TEMPLE (64:10-11)
      • NOTICE THAT THIS READS AS THOUGH IT IS IN THE PAST RATHER THAN THE FUTURE. REMEMBER THAT HEBREW DID NOT HAVE A FUTURE TENSE. THEREFORE, THE PROPHETIC TENSE THAT IS USED IS THE PAST TENSE TO INDICATE THAT PROPHECY WILL IN FACT SOME DAY BE PAST HISTORY.
      • THIS DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL, JERUSALEM, AND THE TEMPLE WOULD NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 100 YEARS AFTER ISAIAH’S DAY.

HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 65 AND 66
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF ISA 63 AND 64
  • HOW CAN YOU APPLY THESE CHAPTERS TO YOUR LIFE TODAY?

• PREPARATION FOR ISA 65 AND 66
  • READ ISA 65:1-25
    • READ REV 21 AND 22 ABOUT THE ETERNAL STATE OF THINGS.

• TO WHAT PERIOD OF TIME DOES ISA 65:18-25 REFER?

• READ ISA 66:1-24
  • WHAT TITLES OF JESUS CHRIST DO YOU SEE EXEMPLIFIED IN THIS LAST CHAPTER OF ISAIAH?

• WHAT WILL ETERNITY BE LIKE FOR THE BELIEVERS?

• WHAT WILL ETERNITY BE LIKE FOR THE NON-BELIEVERS?

• MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 66:22