Isaiah 8:15
15 And many [rab] among them
shall stumble, [kashal] and fall, [naphal] and be broken, [shabar] and
be snared, [yaqosh] and be taken. [lakad] KJV-Interlinear
15
"And many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They
will even be snared and caught." NASB
Many, ‘rab,’ means an
abundance or great numbers.
When the Assyrian
invasion occurs, the Assyrians will not be the sanctuary they had believed in,
but would be a trap of horror and terror and atrocities as had never before
been seen by anyone.
God was supposed to have
been the sanctuary, but was rejected.
Assyria was to have been
the substituted sanctuary or place of safety, but turned into a double cross.
And when this prophecy is
finally fulfilled in the final days, in the Tribulation, then the magnitude of
its message will be experienced by those who have taken their rejection of
Christ to the extreme. Looking to the
anti-christ, as their sanctuary of the future, they will receive the full force
of the ultimate double cross in all of human history.
The stones, the rocks,
the snares of the previous verse will come into full view.
The stumbling and falling
and being broken, indicate the reality and magnitude of the injuries and torture
and violence and death that will occur, on a scale that has no equal in
history.
And many, indicates that
this will not be a hit or miss event, but a massive slaughter that will boggle
the mind, sending the entire population of Israel, and the world, into total
terror.
