Isaiah 14:22
22 For I will rise up [quwm] against them, saith [na'um]
the LORD [Yahovah] of hosts [tsaba'], and cut off [karath] from
Babylon [Babel] the name [shem], and remnant [sha'ar], and
son [niyn], and nephew [neked], saith [na'um] the LORD [Yahovah]. KJV-Interlinear
22 "And I will rise up
against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from
Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the Lord. NASB
The end of Satan is
described.
Satan is a king
want-to-be. His arrogance drove himself and everyone, out of a perfect universe
into one that has suffered the influence of his evil for a very long time.
Evil is his policy, and
wickedness is the production of that policy. Anyone and everyone who rejects
God, or is indifferent toward God, or is apathetic toward God, or simply doesn’t
care about God, automatically subscribs to Satan’s policy of evil.
There are only two
philosophies with which you can guide your life. The first is truth, which
comes from God, and the second is evil, which comes from Satan. Evil is
anything and everything that rejects truth, compromises truth, finds excuses to
set aside truth, or any and all attempts to define one’s own standards for
truth in place of truth.
Satan is the ruler of
this world. In his mind he is a king and royalty, and surrounded by his
faithful followers.
Most people probably do
not think of themselves as Satan followers, but unfortunately any and all who
reject God’s way of doing things, or presume they can define their own way
through life, are by default followers of Satan, simply because they do not
comply with Gods mandates.
As we studied in the
previous verse, the children of Satan, are his firstborn sons. These are not
literal sons, or people, but evil is his son, his pride and joy, which he wants
to see perpetuated throughout history.
In the royal line,
there is the king and queen at the top of course, and next to them would be
their brothers and sisters, as far as line of succession is concerned, and
beneath all of that would be children, nieces and nephews.
All of these are
references to heirs or mechanisms for perpetuating the royal line, or the royal
decrees.
Babylon, as we have
already seen, is the symbolism for Satan, his empire, his plan, his policies,
and everything he has and does to execute his own plan, in opposition of God.
But at the end of
history, God is going to change all that, and put it all to an end.
He is going to cut off
Babylon, which is the concept of Satan’s Empire. He is going to cut off the
name, referring to the firstborn pride and joy, which is evil. He is going to
cut off the remnant, which refers to evil programs and policies that are in
place on planet earth up to the time of Satan’s demise. And God is going to cut
off all future possibilities, referred to here as the son and the nephew.
This will all occur at
the second advent. Evil will be cut off. Evil in every form, including various
concepts of government such as socialism or communism and so forth, including
every form of religion such as Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Islam, including every
form of philosophy such as evolution and so forth.
Every aspect of evil,
everything that Satan has had his hand in, one way or another, whether
religions, or philosophies, or forms of government, or social norms and
standards, everything that attacks God and truth, and the divine establishment
principles, all of these will come to an abrupt end.
Christ will rule for the
next 1000 years. Satan’s influence will not exist at all. So, man during those
next 1000 years will have only truth to guide him, or his own imagination as
far as what he will or will not believe.
This will demonstrate
that even with Satan out of the picture, man will still reject Christ, and even
when Christ is physically here and present and ruling the planet. Even when the
environment will be phenomenally perfect, and prosperity will be universal, and
all of the old burdens of life simply will not exist. Even the plant life and
animal life will be more than pleasant.
But even though the
millennium will be a picture of perfection, by the end of the millennium, there
will be a huge population will have refused to believe in Christ as their
Savior. And when Satan is released from prison at the end of the millennium,
that large negative population will rally to Satan, for one final battle and
judgment.
