Isaiah 5:26
26 And he will lift up [nasa'] an ensign [nec] to the
nations [gowy] from far, [rachowq] and will hiss [sharaq] unto
them from the end [qatseh] of the earth: ['erets] and, behold, they shall come [bow'] with speed [maherah]
swiftly: [qal] KJV-Interlinear
26 He
will also lift up a standard to the distant nation, And will whistle for it
from the ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with speed swiftly. NASB
The ensign or standard,
is a flag representing the colors of the army unit. When it is seen or hoisted, that was a signal
to rally around the flag and follow those colors into battle or wherever they
might lead you.
The hiss, comes from Isa.
7:18, wherein the Lord will call or whistle or blow a flute or some instrument,
and those who hear, will come to its call.
In the ancient world, bees were called out of their hives into the
fields and back to the hives, with flute like calls.
And so it is used here to
demonstrate that the Lord controls history, not man. He uses His power and intellect and plan, and
ability and so forth, to call forth the nations from the far distant places, to
rally and come to participate in the destruction being executed.
In this case, Judah was
the target of Gods judgment.
This principle teaches
how God controls history by means of the use of peoples and nations when they
pursue their own agendas regardless of whether they are righteous or not.
God can use evil to rise
up against evil, or evil to rise up against righteous, or righteous to rise up
against evil, and these combinations have occurred over and over, again and
again throughout history. Peoples have
risen up to combat people, but God in all of His wisdom, knew about these
conflicts in eternity past, long before they were to occur.
And while these
situations did occur in the history of Israel and Judah, their enemies did not
come from the far reaches of the world.
That truth will not occur until the end of history in the Tribulation,
as well as at the very end of the Millennium.
Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and even Rome may have been considered
the ends of the earth in that time, but the real ends of the earth will not
become operational until the final days of history.
In the Tribulation, the
world will be filled with evil and evil will rise up against evil and destroy
itself.
At the end of the
Millennium evil will rise up against the righteous and evil will be destroyed.
At the end of our
dispensation, the Church Age, evil will rise up in a great apostasy from the
far reaches of the world, and God will remove the righteous in the Rapture,
leaving the evil to its own devices. And
even out of that pit, many will rise up and believe in Christ and some will survive
the worldwide destructive forces until the Second Advent.
The point here is, that
even when people, or organizations, or political parties, or nations, or
empires seem to have their own agenda, it is really God who is Jesus Christ, that
is in control of their inevitable actions.
Man does not control his
own destiny. Man cannot cause his own
birth, cannot time his own death, and cannot control his afterlife once he is
gone from this world.
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