Isaiah 6:11
11 Then said ['amar] I, Lord, ['Adonay] how long? And he answered, ['amar] Until the cities [`iyr] be
wasted [sha'ah] without inhabitant, [yashab] and the houses [bayith]
without man, ['adam] and the land ['adamah] be utterly [shamamah]
desolate, [sha'ah] KJV-Interlinear
11 Then
I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are
devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people, And the land is
utterly desolate, NASB
The strong language of
destruction and utter desolation, continues in these verses.
And even though Judah and
the nation of Israel have suffered great destructions before in history, their
destruction will continue up and until the last generation of history of human
rule, namely the Tribulation.
Nebuchadnezzar let the
poor remain when he deported nearly all of the Jewish people out of the land, but
the land was not totally desolated. This
verse describes a judgment that will leave the cities and homes completely and totally
without people. This is utter
destruction, and the destruction will come not only from natural disasters, but
also at the hand of foreign invaders.
The reasons for these
various destructions, is due to the lack of truth, due to the lack of interest
in learning truth, in the population.
And so history repeats itself, over and over again, even until that last
generation in which the last destruction will take place.
And as we will see soon
enough in the last verse of this chapter, ninety percent of the population will
perish and only ten percent will survive in this last and final series of
judgments.
This is not to say that
ten percent of the population at the time of the Rapture will be the surviving
number, but it emphasizes that at the time of the final destructions at the end
of the Tribulation, then only ten percent of that group will actually
survive. By then the total population
will have diminished substantially, as well over half of the entire world will
have died. And, the punishments and
atrocities against the Jewish people as well as believers in Christ, will be
ongoing right up until the very end. Review
the Revelation study.
So, the population in
Judah and Jerusalem, will have been reduced substantially already, when the
last and greatest of judgments will fall on that nation.
The primary purpose of
these verses is to make it very clear that because of the massive extent of
negative volition toward God, Christ and doctrine, the suffering and anguish
and destruction will be massive.
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