Isaiah 10:26
26 And the LORD [Yahovah] of hosts [tsaba'] shall stir up [`uwr] a
scourge [showt] for him according to the
slaughter [makkah] of Midian [Midyan] at the rock [tsuwr] of
Oreb: [`Oreb] and as his rod [matteh] was upon the sea, [yam] so
shall he lift it up [nasa'] after the manner [derek] of Egypt. [Mitsrayim] KJV-Interlinear
26 And the
Lord of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at
the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up
the way He did in Egypt. NASB
The Lord of hosts is
Jesus Christ. He is the second person of
the trinity, and the visible person of the Godhead who commands the armies of
the heavens and of all believers.
It will be God, namely
Jesus Christ, not man, who will stir up a scourge, ‘showt,’ a whip, curse,
menace.
As in the slaughter of
Midian, Judg. 7:19-25, wherein Gideon led the night charge of 300 men against
an overwhelming number of Midianites, numbering well over 120,000.
When Gideon began the
charge, the Midianites were already in fear of the reputation of Gideon, and
when the charge began, it was dark. The
Midianites were disoriented and disorganized and began killing each other as
they ran in terror from the charging forces that they could not see.
The rod of Moses was
lifted up at the Red Sea, parting the sea, making a way of escape for the
Isaelites, and a trap for the Egyptian army. This was a supernatural miracle
event caused by God, delivering the Israelites and destroying the Egyptian
army.
In the Assyrian history,
the army of Sennacherib, numbering 185,000, was killed overnight in a
miraculous event, as they went to bed one evening and did not get up the next
morning, 2 Kg. 19:35.
However, this event being
described here by Isaiah, applies to the final days of history, and more
specifically, the final days of the Age of Israel, which is called the Tribulation. And several things are evident in these
descriptions.
The evil forces that will
be driving through Israel in those final days will be large forces, they will be
disorganized, and disoriented, and they will be in fear of things that are
going on, themselves. Most likely they will
possess some semblance of knowledge that God is coming very soon and that they
are going to be destroyed.
They will be turning on
themselves, and killing themselves from their own friendly fire. Immediately before the Second Advent, a
supernatural darkness will occur. This
is the second of two supernatural darkness events that will occur in
history. The first was during those
three hours of the crucifixion when Christ was receiving the punishment of mans
sins. That was during a supernatural
dark period, a courtesy that God gave Jesus for his privacy during that
punishment, as well as preventing man from trying to imitate what was happening
by means of mans ideas of works or suffering for Jesus ideas.
During this darkness, in
those final days of history, you can imagine the chaos that will occur when all
you can hear are the noises of war and the carnage that will accompany it when
everyone is struck with total fear, unable to see anything, and begin shooting
anything and everything.
And finally when Christ
finally does arrive, in full light, and His foot touches down on the ground,
then the entire battle field, worldwide, will see the total annihilation of all
evil forces in virtually an instant. The miracle of Gods intervention and
ending of evil.
