Isaiah 24

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Dave Burnette's Commentary

Isaiah Chapter 24

Written By: God through Inspiration

Penned By: Isaiah

Date Penned: (700-681 BC)

Overview: To Tell of God's Salvation through the Messiah (c 1-66)

Theme: Words of Judgment (c 1-39)

Message: God's Judgment on the Land (v 1-23)

Isaiah 24 Commentary

(24:1) Isaiah's Apocalypse - These four chapters are often called "Isaiah's Apocalypse." They show God's coming judgment on the entire world for its sin. Isaiah's prophecies were first directed to Judah, then to Israel, then to the surrounding nations, and finally to the whole world. These chapters describe the last days, when God will judge the whole world. At that time he will finally and permanently remove evil.

(24:4-5) Sin's Consequences - Not only did the people suffer from their sins, but even the land suffered the effects of evil and lawbreaking. Today we see the results of sin in our own land--pollution, crime, addiction, poverty. Sin affects every aspect of society so extensively that even those faithful to God suffer. We cannot blame God for these conditions, because human sin has brought them about. The more we who are believers renounce sin, speak against immoral practices, and share God's Word with others, the more we fight our society's deterioration. We must not give up: Sin is rampant, but we can make a difference.

(24:6-11) Our Sin - The people would pay a price for their sin. The party would be over: no celebration, no joy, no music. What a contrast to the scene of the Lord's future feast that will be celebrated when the Messiah comes to save his people (25:6-8)! If we assume that our bad experiences today will define the future, we have underestimated God. He has the last word, and he will prepare a great feast for us.

(24:14-16) Evil All Around Us - The believers left behind after God's judgment of Judah would sing to the glory of God's righteousness. Even so, Isaiah grieved because of his world's condition. We, too, can become distressed and overwhelmed by the evil all around us. At those times we need to hold on to God's promises for the future and look forward to singing praises to him when he restores heaven and earth.

(24:21) The Host of the High Ones - "The host of the high ones" are the spiritual forces opposed to God. Nobody, not even the so-called high ones, will escape due punishment.

Dave Burnette's Life Application
God Must Judge Sin

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today, we continue in the Book of Isaiah with Chapter 24. Today's text shows the beginning of God's judgment in the land. Not only did the people suffer for their sins, but we also saw the land suffering. In making application, we see that God hates sins because the result of sin is separation, heartache, and death. God must judge sin because sin hurts others. How about you? Do you see that God Judges sin? Let us learn from our text today and the warning of Isaiah to share the Word of God with others so they will repent and miss the judgment of our Lord.

Isaiah 24

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Isaiah 24

¹Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

²And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

³The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

⁵The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

⁷The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

⁸The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

⁹They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

¹¹There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

¹²In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

¹³When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

¹⁴They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

¹⁵Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

¹⁶From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

¹⁷Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

¹⁸And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

¹⁹The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

²⁰The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

²¹And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

²²And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

²³Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

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