Isaiah 14:2
2 And the people [`am] shall take [laqach] them, and bring [bow'] them to their place [maqowm]:
and the house [bayith] of Israel [Yisra'el] shall possess [nachal] them
in the land ['adamah] of the LORD [Yahovah] for servants [`ebed] and
handmaids [shiphchah]: and they shall take them
captives [shabah], whose captives [shabah] they were; and they shall rule [radah] over their oppressors [nagas]. KJV-Interlinear
2 And the peoples will take them
along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them
as an inheritance in the land of the Lord as male servants and female servants;
and they will take their captors captive, and will rule over their oppressors. NASB
The word for people, ‘am,’
refers to a congregated unit or group or groups. And in our verse this is a
reference to non-Jewish peoples.
Just a quick reminder,
that these prophecies have not yet been fulfilled in history.
Even though we have
many similarities in past historical events, none of those events have matched
up precisely with every aspect of these prophecies.
These apply to the
final days of the tribulation, or to the beginning of the millennial reign of
Christ.
Our current verse
applies to the very beginning of the millennial reign of Christ, immediately
following the Second Advent, which was at the close of the tribulation.
Remember, at the end of
the tribulation the massive Armageddon war will have destroyed virtually the
entire planet, leaving no one alive on the planet, once Christ destroys all
evil people, except those believers in Christ, which will include both Jews and
Gentiles, that will be rescued by Christ upon his return.
Anyone and everyone who
will have oppressed the Jewish people prior to the Second Advent, will be dead
and gone.
And though it’s an
obvious and simple point, it’s important for the understanding of our current
verse.
Our verse opens up with
the actions of non-Jewish peoples, bringing Jewish peoples, back to Israel from
wherever they were in the world.
Just as it is today, so
too then in the future, Jewish people will be living all over the world. And
even during the tribulation no matter where they are in the world they will be
under persecution. Those Jewish people who believe in Christ during that future
time, and successfully hide or somehow survive through the tribulation until
Second Advent, will have to get from wherever they are, to the Middle East by
some means.
Likewise, there will be
a lot of non-Jewish people who will have believed in Christ, and who will have
survived until Second Advent, and they too will be heading toward the Middle
East and Israel, and they will take with them or help in the transportation of
the Jewish people that are scattered all over the world.
At that future time in
history, everyone will be rejoicing at the return of Christ. Since there will
be no more evil rulers, no more evil religions, no more evil philosophies, and
such things, then Christ and truth and doctrine will rule.
The house of the Lord
here, is a reference to his entire kingdom, which will be planet earth.
Therefore, the people, all people, will become possessions of God’s kingdom, or
as we would typically say, citizens of this one world nation of God.
And, as it were, when
people are citizens of the nation, then they live and serve their lives within
the boundaries and laws of that nation.
Anyone who lives within
a nation is subject to the laws of that nation. And so too, the future citizens
of God’s kingdom here on earth, will be subject to Christ and doctrine, from
which all truth comes.
The oppressors of the
Jewish people will be long gone, actually they will be dead and gone. And with
them their evil ways and their evil philosophies, and everything evil about
them will be gone.
With all evil peoples
gone, and Satan incarcerated in the abyss for the entire duration of the
millennial reign of Christ, then all evil philosophies and religions and such
things that Satan is the author of, will likewise be incarcerated, with its
influence set apart from inhabitants of planet Earth during the reign of
Christ.
Therefore truth and
doctrine will rule, and all of the ridiculous inventions and philosophies and
religions of Satan and man will not exist, and will not be able to derail the
rule of Christ.
Prior to the millennial
reign of Christ, we are all captives and prisoners of the burdens and stresses
and troubles and problems that come with living in this world.
During the reign of
Christ, all those things will be gone. Truth will reign, and all of the evil
influences that originated with Satan will be locked up and sequestered and in
effect become captive to truth.
The truths of Christ
will rule, and evil will not even have an influence during his reign.
