Isaiah 13:6
6 Howl [yalal] ye; for the day [yowm] of the LORD [Yahovah] is at
hand; [qarowb] it shall come [bow'] as a destruction [shod]
from the Almighty. [Shadday]KJV-Interlinear
6 Wail, for the day of the Lord
is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. NASB
Howl is not attached to
any subject, but implied to those who will benefit from the destruction that is
about to fall on Babylon.
The citizens of Babylon
will not howl for they will not believe that their time is up.
The citizens of Israel will
not howl, for if they are in hiding they will not want to reveal their position,
nor will they even know the day of judgment.
Thus the howling comes
from the armies of heaven that will accompany Christ when He returns at the
second advent.
Howl, ‘yalal,’ here
means to wail, to yell, to howl with a boisterous animated energetic lively
rowdy attitude.
Those who are to be
destroyed will not be animated in a joyful howling. Those who are to be rescued will not howl
until after they have been rescued.
But this prophecy is
one of impending destruction against Babylon, or the power to the north. And it is the invading armies that will be
charging in from heaven and howling with the war cry of attacking soldiers.
And when you consider
the vast numbers of Christ’s armies, the angels, all believers from the Church
Age who will have already received their resurrection bodies at the Rapture
which would have been seven years prior to the second advent, then the numbers
of people and angels who will be yelling as they charge, will be in the billions
or even trillions of beings.
That will make for a
lot of noise, that to anyone on earth will or should be, terrified at the
approaching armies from heaven.
