Isaiah
24:1
1 Behold, the LORD [Yahovah] maketh the earth ['erets]
empty [baqaq], and maketh it waste [balaq], and turneth [`avah] it
upside down [paniym], and scattereth abroad [puwts] the inhabitants [yashab]
thereof. KJV-Interlinear
1 Behold, the LORD will empty the
earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its
inhabitants. ESV
Since the
thirteenth chapter, the description of the ultimate result of the evil of humanity,
which includes all of the indifference and pretense directed toward Christ,
will be the systematic and violent dismantling of the entire world. This prophecy series, has been a long time known
and a long time ignored, even scoffed at by generation after generation.
The word earth,
denotes not just a given region, but the entire planet.
The world will
be made empty and made waste and thus will be depopulated. All wealth will be destroyed. All production will be halted. All government will be dismantled. All of society will cease. All cultures, all historical elements,
everything that humanity holds near and dear to itself, will end.
Obviously this
has not yet occurred in history. It
remains future and is assigned to the Tribulation or the final days and months
and years of history. The final seven years to be exact. And with human history
lasting for many thousands of years thus far, those final seven years will be
dramatic to beyond the extreme, and extremely fast moving.
Turned upside
down, means just that. The entire world will
be disfigured. Mountains will collapse,
islands will vanish, the geography of entire continents will change
dramatically. Survival for anyone will be
virtually impossible, except for those few, very few, who will look to Christ
for their deliverance at the second advent.
The inhabitants of
the entire world, will be scattered. The word for scattered, ‘puwts,’ means to break,
to dash, to shake in to pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive,
retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
In other words all who attempt to remain where they are for safety will be
not be able to do so. As the earth
shakes and rolls and transforms, all will be systematically ripped from wherever
they are, and sent to places with total and complete helplessness. Needless to say, there will be no survivors
among the unbelieving, nor among the indifferent despite their pretended or
weak faith.
