Concept

Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah are all "end time prophecy" Books, and it is important to see how they correlate one with the other.

Bible Verses

[1] Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Commentary

V.1 This chapter is addressed jointly unto the archetypes of the two major contesting world powers.

  1. (Babylon) America the Pure, was always envisioned as a lady. These were the symbols about her. Lady Columbia, The Statue of Liberty, Justice holding her scales, seeking/providing justice, welcoming the wounded of the world.
    • This chapter of Isaiah, however, is about the curse upon America. It says that the Virgin Daughter has been cast upon the ground and will no longer be called tender and delicate.

  2. (Chaldea) Russia which was ruled by a king, until its overthrow by the communists, and became a powerful modern war faring nation, with a reputation of brutality even against its own people.

[2] Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

V.2 No modesty among the Americans or Russia. All business. Passing over the rivers, seas and boundaries, seeking to control all the nations of the world, economically if not directly.

[3] Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

V.3 No innocence now. Naked force - America looking out for "American Interests" and Russia looking out for "Russian Interests". The treatment of the nations of the world, God's children throughout the world justifies the vengeance of the Lord.

[4] As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

V.4 The following are the first four of:

The Ten Commandments

Exodus:
20:1
And God spake all these words, saying,
20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

America and Russia were both founded as religious countries on these identical self same principles from the same source. Emblems of religion were engraved upon all their legislative walls, and in all their courts. But then Russia espoused and imposed atheism through its constitution; and today many Americans pride themselves in their government being separated from religion, such that prayer is not even allowed in its schools.

[5] Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

V.5 The Russian Empire disintegrated as the USSR collapsed. There was spiritual darkness and we do not know what is yet to come, perhaps literal darkness as a result of EMP. Whatever chastisements are assigned to one here, the other may expect equally.

[6] I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

V.6 Certainly, both have polluted their spiritual inheritance. Both have shown no mercy to their people. The stories of Russian gulags are well known. Masses were enslaved, both in Russia proper and among its satellites.

But not to just see the speck in our brother's eye. The American government has become angry with its own people gathering together the instruments of martial law, training its police in military tactics and equipping them with military arms for use against its own people:

  1. It imprisons a larger portion of its population than any other nation.
  2. Its black citizens are terribly discriminated against in employment and opportunity while often being harassed and even killed by white police officers.
  3. For the poor it has one of the poorest health care systems among the industrialized nations, and its migrant agricultural workers are still trapped in a form of slavery.
  4. Two million children are homeless, often sleeping in cars with their parents.
  5. It spends the most on armaments of any nation while reducing the food stamp sharing with its poorest, of its mountains of surplus food.
  6. The purchasing power of the elderly on Social Security is continually reduced, and the condition of some groups is such as to rival the pictures of the ancient coming out of Russia.
  7. It started from a beautiful and pristine land but has polluted its waters, wells, rivers, lakes, landscape and air.

Does the Lord's indictment against America (or Russia) sound in anyway unfair?

[7] And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

V.7 And as badly as they treated their own people - they treated the rest of the world worse while going about the nations of the world endlessly repeating with Patriotic ferver,

"Oh, we are the best, we are the best, we have the best government, the most freedoms, the largest incomes, the greatest opportunities - we are the best, we are the best",

but neither could see the former verse in application to itself.

[8] Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

V.8 And so Americans and Russians alike think that they shall continue in their prominence among the Nations. That they have always had it best and that they will continue to do so. They wish to continue to spend more and more on luxuries, cosmetics, clothes, automobiles, travel and entertainment.

Many of their youths spend most of their time playing electronic games, chatting electronically with friends about nothing, listening to music that is not spiritually inspiring, consuming drugs and alcoholic beverages, watching immoral movies and videos - while there are children in other parts of the world who are in utter deprivation.

And all of this does not touch upon a fraction of the immorality, obsenity, blasphemy, and profanity that is manifested in both of the countries on a daily basis, even now without respite on what used to be called "The Lord's Day".

They think it shall never end, but only increase more in what they call "freedoms" to practice deviant sex and all other immoralities.

[9] But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

V.9 The chastisement commeth. SUDDENLY! In a moment! In one day! On BOTH countries. It is called MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).

This shows the amazing power of the prophets to see details of this time, "The End Days", because in no other age has there existed weapons of such force, power, and broad spread destruction that they could cause total destruction in a moment and instantly throw all into darkness as mentioned in verse 5. This could well portend the usage of EMP that can in an instant turn the entire continent dark.

The Abomination of Desolation (nuclear weapons) is certainly the perfection of destruction to cause for the multitude, widowhood and the loss of children.

[10] For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

V.10 In both countries, the ostensible rulers and those who held the REAL power, were demonstrably different. In dark and secret places, in the corporate boardrooms, in the secret committees of government, in all secret unproclaimed and unacknowledged "dark agencies", the secret societies, and private international organizations there has been continuous plotting many hours of each day against the just needs of the common man.

[11] Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

V.11 Their pride blindeth them to evil in their own hearts and the ignorance of their ways, the results of which shall suddenly wipe their systems completely away - and yet they will not know from whence their destruction comes.

[12] Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

V.12 The world is full of mystical and magical formulas perpetuated upon the common man. Entertaining, advertising and PR enchantments that play upon the emotions and subconscious.

Entirely misleading statistics to tell them how well things are going, such as the level of employment; misleading political polls to tell the common man the will of the people; elaborate financial instruments that manipulate the funds of the world, and even individual financial dealings beyond the comprehension of any individual; chemical potents that destroy the environment, ruin agriculture, and impact individual health. All these sorceries are done for the profit of the few and to the detriment of the many.

[13] Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

V.13 The nightly news broadcasters, the political analysts, the economists, the stock market prognosticators, the experts and commentators, the endless stream of pundits from universities, government, the military, all giving their predictions, which seldom work out.

There are the ever conflicting counsels and accusations between the opposing political parties, particularly in the legislative and administrative branches of government; and among these the plotters who sometimes give lip service to "transparency", (but there is none) and they consider themselves more righteous and deserving than all others.

The powers and programs of propaganda, from the primary schools upward through life, control the minds of the masses so that they feel that they are justified in their patriotic ferver, and their hatred of other cultures.

[14] Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

V.14 Before the Great Catastrophe the leaders have become ineffective in their counsels and legislatures. They cannot implement any beneficial course. They neither know nor do anything that is to their benefit - and it shall bring it all down so that they will no longer have even the basic necessities of life.

[15] Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

V.15 All the old systems, the corporations, the military, the police, the courts, the schools, the churches, and every institution one may name in either country will have become non-beneficial, even detrimental as their society plunges ever deeper into its immorality, depravity, materiality, conflict and failure so that there is nothing that satisfies the soul.

America the Beautiful has become the America void of spiritual value. Russia the Romantic faces the realism of spiritual emptiness.