The Coming of the King cont. - Isaiah 63

Continuing with chapter 63…To whom is God’s vengeance directed? Another excerpt from my journal.

Is. 63:5-6 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

The Lord is still speaking. The Hebrew for the word help was enlightening--to surround, i.e. protect or aid. Uphold means “to prop, stand fast or sustain.” Obviously, it is not the Lord needing help or sustenance; He is amazed that there is no one willing to aid and sustain His people. In His own strength the Lord steps in (as He always does in behalf of those that are His) and saves and sustains His people. (Note: The word me is not in the Hebrew at either point in verse 5.)

Who is the Lord treading down? Those who are His enemies; those who comprise the armies of the Antichrist.

Rev. 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

“bring down their strength” – Strength is a reference to their blood, according to the Hebrew, and the scripture tells us that the life is in the blood.

Lev. 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

I believe this is the “supper of the great God” referenced in Revelation.

Rev. 19:17-18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Though people may deny it, the truth doesn’t change. Jesus is going to physically return to planet earth to destroy the kingdom of the “god of this world,” Satan, and to establish His eternal kingdom. The words of the Apostle Peter come to mind again.

2Pet. 3:3-9 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.