Isaiah 10:27
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, [yowm] that his burden [cobel]
shall be taken away [cuwr] from off thy
shoulder, [shakem] and his yoke [`ol] from off thy neck, [tsavva'r] and the yoke [`ol] shall be destroyed [chabal] because [paniym] of the
anointing. [shemen] KJV-Interlinear
27 So it will
be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his
yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness. NASB
These next several verses
describe the advancing armies of the northern invaders into Israel, as they
advance toward Jerusalem.
And here in the face of
that rapid advance, is the promise that despite the overwhelming numbers and
power of those armies, their invasion will come to a swift end, and the burdens
and oppressions that they threaten will be removed completely.
The phrase, in that day,
refers to the time in history when all of these events will occur.
And while history has
already recorded several invasions since the time of the Assyrian invasion,
none of the past historical events have been completed to the letter as
described in these verses.
The phrase, in that day,
then still refers to some future event, when all of these things will occur and
then history will terminate. That time
is the final days of the dispensation of the Age of Israel, that period we call
the Tribulation, which is the last seven years of that dispensation.
Recall that when Christ
went to the Cross, and was risen and ascended into heaven, these events were
the very next events on the historical calendar from the Old Testament view,
but they did not occur immediately. Our dispensation,
the Church Age, interrupted the Age of Israel and postponed the end of the Age
of Israel. There are still seven years remaining in that dispensation.
Meanwhile, our dispensation
has been in effect for well over 1,900 years now (about 1,980 years) and
counting. When our dispensation comes to an end with the final event of our
dispensation which is the Rapture, then the Age of Israel will resume, and its
final seven years will be completed.
That is the time of the,
in that day, period being referred to here.
The reason of the removal
of the invading forces and the removal of the burdens and hardships and
sufferings they were intending to cause, is because of the believers in Christ,
who will be residents in Israel and Jerusalem at that time.
God has promised to
deliver and rescue them, therefore, as they look into the face of the invading
forces, they are to keep this promise in mind.
The invaders will be
coming with ill intent, but they will not succeed.
The burdens that have
been imposed by the anti-christ during those final seven years, and culminating
with this invasion, will be brought to an end, for the sake of the believers
that are still alive and there in Jerusalem.
