Isaiah 22:7
7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest [mibchar] valleys [`emeq] shall be
full [male'] of chariots [rekeb], and the horsemen [parash]
shall set [shiyth] themselves in array [shiyth] at the gate [sha`ar]. KJV-Interlinear
7 Then your choicest valleys were full
of chariots, And the horsemen took up fixed positions at the gate. NASB
Our dispensation
is typically called the end times, as we are the last full dispensation before
the Second Advent. The end of days, or
final days, are references to the final seven years, prior to the Second
Advent, known as the Tribulation.
It is those
final days to which these prophecies apply.
The Tribulation is
the last seven years of the former dispensation known as the Age of Israel. Our dispensation interrupted that
dispensation and we have been going along for almost 2000 years now. Of all of the human dispensations, ours is
the longest. Our dispensation will end
with the Rapture and that is when the Age of Israel will resume, and finish its
last and final seven years.
The Tribulation will
be full or trouble and turmoil and will be the worst period for anyone to live
in, in all of human history.
From the
beginning of this final seven years, there will be trouble after trouble. During the first three-and-a-half years,
literally half of the worlds population will die because of all of the disasters,
crime, government regulation, wars, starvation, disease, and so forth.
And yet, here we
see that the residents of Jerusalem will still cherish their property, the choicest
valleys, despite all of the turmoil that has been and will be, continuing in
the world during that future time.
And near the end
of the Tribulation, when armies are invading and encamped all around, the people
will see their pride and possessions, occupied by armies that seek their
destruction.
And those armies
will not be moving in, in nice cars or recreational vehicles as vacationers,
but they will be preceded by the most terrible destruction ever in history.
One would think
that people would sit up and take notice long before this time. But they don’t.
And just as
people in our current day do not get with their daily study, do not sit up and
take notice of the bigger picture for life, the same principle of observation
and recognition about life and its meaning, apply now as they have always
applied throughout history.
That future time
will make it clear that it takes a huge disastrous state, before people see
clearly, and even then, most folks still resist acknowledging God, Christ,
doctrine, and their own future, and what it all means.
And so, most
folks will skim over such passages as this, and won’t connect the dots of life,
and will fail and will miss out on the greatest opportunity in all of creation.
One group that
you should not want to be identified with, is such a failing group.
And so you can
turn these truths into the greatest possible life for yourself, not only for
now, but forever.
