Isaiah 21:3
3 Therefore are my loins [mothen] filled [male'] with pain [chalchalah]: pangs [tsiyr] have taken
hold ['achaz] upon me, as the pangs [tsiyr] of a woman that travaileth [yalad]: I was bowed down [`avah]
at the hearing [shama`] of it; I was dismayed [bahal] at the seeing [ra'ah] of
it. KJV-Interlinear
3 For this reason my loins are full of
anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so
bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see. NASB
Babylon
represents the state of the entire world when the final days of history finally
arrive. Here is a brief description of
the horrors of judgment, far beyond anything that has ever struck humanity in
all of human history.
Using a
description of a child birth that has gone bad, Isaiah describes a birth that
is a normal event, something that has occurred routinely innumerable times
throughout history, but now the mother is alone and helpless, with everything
that can go wrong, goes wrong. There is
no help, no one to turn to, no assistance, no relief, nothing.
And the pains
and anguish never subside. They only get
worse.
Bowed down at the
hearing and dismayed at the seeing, describes one who is unable to hear or see,
not because it was beyond perception, but because the individual refused to see
or hear. The eyes are darkened, the ears
are closed.
The calamity is
so great, the prior knowledge of its coming is so overwhelming, that accepting
it is refused, believing it is denied.
This is the
spiritual state of the world in the very end.
A destination that the current world is heading straight for through
indifference.
Evil always
increases directly proportional with the magnitude of indifference and apathy. The magnitude of judgment always matches the
magnitude of the evil. Extreme judgment
means extreme evil. Extreme evil means
extreme indifference. Extreme
indifference always matches extreme unwillingness to see or hear truth.
What happens at
the end, childbirth, always follows prior knowledge long before its coming,
conception and pregnancy.
