Isaiah 4:4
4 When the Lord ['Adonay] shall have
washed away [rachats] the filth [tsow'ah] of the daughters [bath] of
Zion, [Tsiyown] and shall have purged [duwach] the blood [dam] of
Jerusalem [Yaruwshalaim] from the midst [qereb] thereof by the spirit [ruwach] of judgment, [mishpat] and
by the spirit [ruwach] of burning. [ba`ar] KJV-Interlinear
4 When
the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the
bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit
of burning, NASB
So when will this all
occur?
When the Lord, is a
reference to the time in which the Lord will accomplish the following events
listed within this verse.
And the when is, when the
Lord has washed, purged, and otherwise removed all of the sin and evil that had
existed. And these events have not yet
occurred in history, and will not occur until the Second Advent.
Washed away, means to
purify, to cleanse.
Purged, means to drive
away, to remove completely.
The filth and the blood,
are references to sin and evil, the crime, the cruelty and the degeneracy, the
defilement of arrogance and self-righteousness, the pursuit of all things that
are in opposition to truth and God.
The spirit, ‘ruwach,’
means wind, the exhale of the breath.
Judgment, ‘mishpat,’ is a
reference to the decision of a court, the judgment that is reached due to the
weight and accuracy of the evidence.
Burning, ‘ba ar,’ refers
to the execution of the sentence justly arrived at due to the decision of the
court that heard all of the evidence and decided the guilt.
Therefore, due to the
weight of the evidence, and due to its presentation in a court of law in
heaven, a just decision was and will be, arrived at. That decision of guilt carries with it a sentence
that demands the total removal of sin and evil.
And that is exactly what God will do, in those end days.
After this judgment, and
not before the judgment, God will deliver those spiritually mature people that
belong to Him. They will live through
the judgments executed upon evil humanity, and they will be safe from harm.
And this will all occur
in the end days, the time at the end of the Tribulation, immediately prior to
and during the Second Advent of Christ, who is the Lord who will be the one
executing the judgment, while simultaneously protecting and delivering those
who will be trusting in Him.
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