ISAIAH, CHAPTER 21, VS 1-9
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 21, VS 1-6
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 21, VS 1-6
v. 1– Satan comes “like the wind” to us to draw our minds against the Lord.
v. 2– Satan is the “treacherous dealer” who “dealeth treacherously” in our minds to get us out of the Word of God–in whatever little “crack” in our lives he can get through.
v. 3-4– When he brings these thoughts on us, we are painful. We don’t want such thoughts and feelings, yet we alone can’t get rid of them. Only Jesus can take them away.
v. 5-6– We have to be on the watch continually to make sure our thoughts are of Our Lord and totally give ourselves and our thoughts and feelings to the Lord to make like His and keep us in His Eternal Plan.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 21, VS 7-9
And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 21, VS 7-9
v. 7-8– As we watch diligently for satan’s attacks, God sends His warriors–His ministering angels–to give us strength to rebuke satan’s temptations.
v. 9– And with the Strength and Power of Jesus Christ, which is always in us, we can undeniably make satan flee from us as surely as Babylon fell!!!