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AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD

ISAIAH 24

The Lord is the only refuge from the coming storm.

• Background: Isaiah 24-27, the next four chapters.
• After prophesying concerning eleven different nations, Isaiah enlarged

his prophecy and described a judgment that would fall on the whole world.

• The Hebrew word erets, Earth, is used sixteen times in chapter 24,

and is translated as land, earth, and world in the NKJV.

• In light of context, Isaiah 24-27 describes a global judgment that will

end with the destruction of God’s enemies and the restoration of God’s people, Israel, in their land. Obviously not all of this has

• ccurred.

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A BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER 24

• This chapter describes that the result of God’s judgment will be a world that

is empty, laid waste, and distorted, and whose inhabitants are scattered. Know Jesus personally, and you can skip this part. Reminding us of Gen. 11:9.

• Nobody on earth will escape, for “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts

10:34). Position, power, and wealth are no protection against God’s wrath.

Why will God punish the inhabitants of the entire world?

• Because they have defiled the world with their sins and mistreated the

nation Israel, God’s chosen people. Joel 3:1-3

• When Adam sinned, God cursed the ground as a part of the punishment

(Gen. 3:17-19, Rom. 8:20-22) and God warned the people of Israel that their sins polluted the Promised Land. Num. 35:33

• This was also the reason for the flood. Gen. 6:5-12

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THE TRUTH IS, MANKIND IS A MESS

• Long before Moses gave the Law, people knew that it was wrong to lie, steal,

and kill–so do we–but they did these things anyway. Rom. 1:18-2:16

• Isaiah 24:16 suggests that God will also judge the world because people are

treacherous and do not keep their word.

• Verses 6-13 give a vivid picture of what it will be like on the earth during the

“Day of the Lord”—the Great Tribulation.

• During that terrible time, God’s judgments will destroy the crops as well as the

workers who would till the soil. Rev. 6:8, 9:15

• No matter where the unsaved sinners go, they will not be able to hide from

the wrath of God. Rev. 6:15-17

• Jesus said that before the “Day of the Lord,” society would be as it was in the

days right before the Flood—NOT GOOD! Matt. 24:37-42

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COMING ATTRACTIONS OF THE NOT-GOOD KIND—THINGS TO COME!

The Lord’s last days of judgement during the Great Tribulation will:

• Purge the earth of its inhabitants.
• Cause a polar axis shift or flip.
• The destruction will affect every last remaining inhabitant of the earth—so

you really want to be in Heaven when this happens (AKA have a personal relationship with Jesus—by rapture or natural death).

• The Great Tribulation with be an unimaginable time of destruction, famine

calamity, war, death, disease, earthquakes, tyranny, fear, sadness, loss and

• ruin. Rev. 6-19, Luke 21, Matt. 24

The earth will wobble and fall!

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GOD HAS A BETTER PLAN

I really don’t want to be here when all that happens and thanks to the Harpazo (Rapture) or my time here being over because I am “absent from this body,” I won’t. 1 Thess. 4:15-17, 5:9-10; 2 Cor. 5:1-8

• “In that day” (v. 21) we will finally see the Devil and his demonic forces

get their due!

• The Devil and his demons know that their time is coming when they are

going to be cast into the abusso, awaiting final judgement. Rev 20:1-3

• After a thousand years, Satan will be released for a short period, to

torment those who were children born to Tribulation saints during the Millennium, who were unable to sin because of Christ’s rule but yet would still possess a sin nature.

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OH GLORIOUS DAY! v. 23

• Finally Satan and his followers will be cast into Gehenna, Hell, the Lake of

Fire, a place of outer darkness. A place that is out beyond the furthest

• galaxy. Out into space and to the darkness beyond the light of any galaxy.
• Hell is no joke—it is a place of weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth, evil

and pain—total separation from God, light and goodness. Rev 20:10-15 The really good news is you do not have to fear that place if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord.

• Because He will reign from Mount Zion in peace and joy—and no political
• r military force on this earth can stop Him!

I can’t wait for that day. Look up—our Redeemer draws near!

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