Friday, September 11, 2020

Isaiah 14:9-11

God always has the final say. Satan’s time is drawing to a close.


Praise  the triune Godhead…Father, Son and Holy Spirit!


Isaiah 14:9-11

9 “Hell  from beneath is excited about you,

To meet you at your coming;

It stirs up the dead for you,

All the chief ones of the earth;

It has raised up from their thrones

All the kings of the nations.

10 They all shall speak and say to you:

‘Have you also become as weak as we?

Have you become like us?

11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,

And the sound of your stringed instruments;

The maggot is spread under you,

And worms cover you.’


14:16

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,

And consider you, saying:

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,


The underworld  welcomes the now-fallen king. 


The Hebrew term repha'im  (“shades”) refers to the dead in their shadowy existence in the afterlife. Former world leaders are welcoming the king of Babylon as an equal—he was once their overlord and oppressor, but he is now equally as powerless as they are. 


In the end, the king is just a man whose time passes like all earthly rulers. No matter how powerful a king is during his reign, he will eventually die. Faithlife Bible.


The commotion in hell when the king of Babylon arrives contrasts sharply with the rest on earth when he is gone. The Hebrew word for the dead is similar in connotation to our word ghost: it speaks of the dead in a frightening manner. The defeated subjects of the Babylonian tyrants are pictured as sitting on thrones, while the king is given a blanket of worms. Rather than rising to meet the king of Babylon as a sign of honor, the foreign kings have come to mock him for his presumptuousness and arrogance. Imagery is mixing the shadowy existence of the afterlife with the physical reality of decomposition. Isaiah compares this king to the One who can truly shake the earth.


Son of the Morning The reference to “Lucifer, son of the morning” is most certainly to Satan himself. The real issue of interpretation in this passage is whether Satan is to be viewed literally as the referent of the prophecy in these verses, or whether he is to be viewed as the power behind the throne of the Babylonian king. In either case, we are given a clear picture of the certain destruction that always follows pride. NKJ Bible.


Ezekiel 32:21  The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him: ‘They have gone down,They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

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