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Adventistische Schriften über: "How should Isaiah 24 be interpreted?"
Answer
Isaiah 24 describes a sweeping judgment upon the earth: People have transgressed God’s laws and broken the everlasting covenant; the consequences affect every level of society. Ellen White interprets the desolation in connection with Christ’s second coming and the subsequent thousand-year desolation of the earth. Other Adventist commentators quoted here also relate the imprisonment and subsequent punishment in Isaiah 24:21–22 to these end-time events. At the same time, the chapter contains songs of praise and ends with the declaration that the Lord reigns as king (verses 14–16 and 23). However, these passages are not explained further in the commentaries provided.
The cause of the judgment and the desolated earth
»At the second coming of Christ the wicked are blotted from the face of the whole earth—consumed with the spirit of his mouth and destroyed by the brightness of his glory. Christ takes his people to the City of God, and the earth is emptied of its inhabitants. “Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.” […] “Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth.”«
The announcement of judgment as a warning
»The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the times of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place. “Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. […] Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate. […] The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.”«
Who are the few who remain?
»But someone says that this text cannot prove the complete desolation of the earth, because “few men are left.” It does not say that a few people are left on the earth, but the testimony is that the “Lord maketh the earth EMPTY.” “The land shall be utterly emptied,” and so on. These few who remain, then, are not on the earth. We understand those who remain to be the saints who, as we have already shown, will go to heaven with Jesus after his second coming.«
Imprisonment and punishment after many days
»The prisoners will be gathered in the pit of death, for they do not live until the thousand years are ended; “and after many days shall they be punished”—after the thousand years. […] It is therefore certain that during the millennium this earth will be completely empty and abandoned by all human inhabitants.«
This is Waggoner’s end-time interpretation of Isaiah 24:21–22 in connection with the thousand years.
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