Isaiah 34: Draw near, O nations (the flesh of the world) to hear, and listen, O peoples(in the flesh)!
Let the earth listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, He had doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains (idols of the flesh) shall flow with their blood. All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll.
(The power of the flesh that corrupted God's creation). All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens (corruption is there); Behold, it (the sword) descends for judgment upon Edom (for his unrelenting fury expressed against Israel by the unmerciful use of the sword), upon the people I have doomed.
The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams (the blood of high priests, priests and servants).
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. Isaiah 34: 1-6
Bozrah, a prominent city of Edom, the house of the father of Jobab, an Edomite king. The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah and Amos under inspiration referred to it as representative of all Edom, due for desolation. Isa.34: 5, 6; 63: 1-4; Jer.49: 12, 13, 17, 22; Amos1: 11, 12. Situated at the South East of the Southern extremity of the Dead Sea on the main road to Petra. it occupied a central position in the Edomite kingdom and guarded the approaches to the copper mines in the Arabah (dessert plains; from a root word meaning dry, burnt up). This long narrow, N-S valley owes its existence to a "fault" line, or long fracture in the earth's crust. The Jordan winds through the northern part of this straight valley, and its steady flow waters a green belt down the center of the valley's floor. South of the Dead Sea, however, the Arabah is fed only by seasonal torrent streams that are insufficient to bring life to the dry soil. The part of the extraordinary depression of the rift valley that extends toward the South from the slopes of Mount Hermon, cradles the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River, and drops far below sea level (400 meters) to form the basin of the Dead Sea, and then continues on southward to the Gulf of Aqabah at the Red Sea.
Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat.
For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. Isaiah 34: 7-8
Zion, originally the Jebusite stronghold that came to be called the "city of David." (1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chron. 11:5). After capturing Mount Zion, David established his royal residence there. (2 Sam. 5:6,7,9)
Alluding to David's ruling from Zion as God's anointed one are God's words: "I, even I, have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain." (Psalms 2:6)
David had the sacred Ark transferred there. (2 Sam. 6:17). Later, the designation "Zion" embraced the temple area on Mount Moriah (where the Ark was moved during Solomon's reign) and the term was, in fact, applied to the entire city of Jerusalem. (Isaiah 1:8; 8:18) Since the Ark represented God's presence, Zion was referred to as the place of God's dwelling and the place from which help, blessing and salvation would come. (Psalms 14:7; 20:2; 50:2; 53:6; 134:3)
For unfaithfulness to Him, God allowed the enemies of Israel to desolate Zion. (Lam. 2:1,4,6,8,10,13)
God restored a remnant of his repentant people to Zion. (Isa.35:10; 51:3; 52: 1-8; Jer. 50:4,5,28; 51:10, 24, 35). This made it possible for Jesus Christ to ride into Jerusalem on the colt of an ass and present himself to Zion as king, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Zechariah. (Zech. 9:9; Matt. 21:5; John 12 :15)
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