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E have read Isaiah's prophecies against Assyria (chapter
10), Babylon (13), Palestine (14:28-32), Moab (15-16), Damascus of Syria (17),
Africa (18), and Egypt (19-20). We still have prophecies against Jerusalem
(22), Tyre (23), Ephraim (28) and Ariel (29) to consider in the chapters ahead
of us. Here we are presented with God's words against Babylon (again), the
Edomites (descendants of Esau) & the Arabians (descendants of Ishmael).
These peoples all had truth in their background. Sure, you
have to go back to Noah to find it in Babylon, but Nimrod should have known
better than to go the way that he did. If nothing else, the linguistic
diversity which resulted from that experiment, should have caused those
associated with the city (from then on) to pause to consider to whom they were
ultimately answering. Esau's brother was Jacob and his father was Isaac! Enough
said. Ishmael's brother was Isaac, his father was Abraham and his mother was
Hagar, so again, his descendants had no excuse. They all had a responsibility
to learn from both the wise and the foolish decisions of their ancestors.
From a historical standpoint, Babylon fell to the Medes a
little over 500 years before the first advent of Christ. From a prophetic
perspective, Babylon has lived on under different names and with various faces.
Its eventual annihilation is yet to come. The cry concerning the fall of
Babylon is found not only here in Isaiah 21:9 (and in Jeremiah 51:8), but also
in Revelation 14:8 & 18:2. It's interesting, isn't it, that the people who
inhabited the land east of Israel in the days of Isaiah will still be
significant even in the days of Christ's second advent.
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