Isa 14.1-32 tells us about the certainty of the deliverance from Babylon, Assyria and the Philistines, which prophetically alludes to as the USA, Russia and the Palestinians.
v 1…When Yehovah will have compassion on Jacob (comfort and hope for the righteous) and again choose Israel and settle them in their own land, then strangers (gerim or non-Jews-Rom 11.11-24) will join them (grafted in) and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
v 2…And the peoples (non-Jews) will take them along and bring them to their place (Israel) and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of Yehovah as male and female servants (to serve); and they will take them as their captors, and will rule over their oppressors (and subject them to a Torah-based faith in Yeshua).
v 3…And it will be in the day (Messianic Kingdom) when Yehovah gives you rest (“nuach”-Isa 11.10) from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved (both physically and spiritually),
v 4…that you will take up proverb against the king of Babylon and say, “How the oppressor has ceased and how fury has ceased (the power behind any king, president or leader of any nation is the Nachash, Ha Satan. The king of Babylon represented Nimrod on the mystery religion and it is prophetic of the False Messiah. In the peshat, or literal level, this is Belshazzar-Dan 5.1)!
v 5…Yehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers (since their rule was tyrannical)
v 8…Which used to strike the peoples in fury and unceasing strokes (the nations is subjection without mercy), which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
v 7…The whole earth is at rest and is quiet, they break forth into shouts of joy (this hasn’t happened yet but it will in the day of the Lord).
v 8…Even the cypress trees (the people) rejoice over you, and the cedars (leaders) of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were laid low, no tree cutter (to cut them down) comes up against us.”
v 9…Sheol (the abode of the dead, not the final place of punishment; that is Gehenna) from beneath (figurative-it is not part of this world. It has an existence in another dimension, but the exact location is unknown) is excited over you to meet you when you come (this is given in contrast to the joy in the Messianic Kingdom); it arouses for you the spirits (rephaim-disembodied spirits) of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; it raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones (all Sheol is excited that the king of Babylon is coming, and sooner than they think).
v 10…They (the departed dead) will all respond and say to you, “Even you have been made weak as we, you have become like us (no strength).
v 11…Your pomp and the music of your harps (earthly glory) have been brought down to Sheol (the end); maggots are spread out beneath (not rich carpets), and worms are your covering (not fine robes-maggots and worms are figures of decay).
v 12…How you have fallen from heaven, O shining star (Helel-alluding to the high position the king had), the son of the morning (ben shachar not “Lucifer” as in the KJV. The translators of the KJV did not use the original Hebrew, but versions translated largely by Jerome from the fourth century AD. He mistranslated “helel ben shachar” as “lucis ferre” we get “Lucifer”)! You have been cut down to the earth, you who have weakened the nations (by conquering them).
v 13…But you said in your heart (this will apply to Babylon, but it will also apply to the False Messiah who is empowered by Ha Satan), “I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of the assembly (the word assembly is “moed” meaning the “appointed times.” The “mount of the appointed times”, or festivals, is the Temple Mount. Babylon wanted to destroy the Temple as a victory for their false gods, and Ha Satan has set up his own “festivals” in opposition to God-Rev 16.16; Dan 7.25. This can be read in Hebrew as “Har Moghed.” The “ayin” in moed can be said with a hard “G” sound as in “Gaza” in Amos 1.6. Moed is spelled with a mem, vav, ayin dalet. So, Har Moghed means “mount of assembly” and could be the root for “Har Moghedon” or “Armegeddon” in Rev 16.16. Some believe “Armageddon” means Mount Megiddo but there is only a small hill at Megiddo. Rev 16.16 refers to a battle over who you are going to follow. The battle in Rev 16.16 is over obeying the Torah-2 Thes 2.3-4; Psa 24.3, 48.1-3; Isa 2.2-3; Psa 43.3) in the recesses of the north (Psa 48.2 says the Temple is in the “sides of the north” because it is north of the city. North is the direction of wisdom and intellect).
v 14…I will ascend above the heights of the cloud (it is singular here meaning the Shekinah, Yehovah’s presence which was represented by a cloud), I will make myself like the Most High (notice it does not say “greater than” because the power behind the king knows better).”
v 15…Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol (see Ezek 32.17-32; Isa 30.33; Rev 20.2), to the recesses of the pit (the Targum says, “to the ends of the lake of the house of perdition, everlasting destruction, not the mount of assembly”).
v 16…Those who see you will gaze at you (being humbled in this state), they will ponder (understand) over you, saying, “Is this the man (the king of Babylon, alluding to the False Messiah ultimately) who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms (where is all your power now-Ezek 32.10-32).
v 17…Who made the world like a wilderness (king of Babylon; Ha Satan did for 6000 years, and the False Messiah will in the birth-pains) and overthrew its cities, who did not allow his prisoners to go home (they were exiled, and the king of Babylon did all of this, but this also alludes to Ha Satan and those not born-again).
v 18…All the kings of the nations lie in glory (rich tombs and monuments), each in his own tomb (or house, buried near their home).
v 19…But you have been cast out of your tomb (no burial or grave) like a rejected branch (the False Messiah’s fate will be the same, he will be cast into the lake of fire), clothed with the slain who were pierced with the sword (in battle, bloody, ceremonially unclean-Isa 27.1; Job 26.12-13; Isa 51.9), who go down to the stones of the pit, like a trampled corpse (neglected).
v 20…You will not be buried with them in burial (in honor, with other kings, not equal to them), because you have ruined your country (it was bad enough he ruined other countries and lands, but he ruined his own. Eschatologically this is Europe), you have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever (this shows Yehovah’s contempt; he is forgotten and infamous).
v 21…Prepare for his sons (literally his sons, but alludes to followers-John 8.44) a place of slaughter because of the iniquity of their fathers (they share in the guilt of the king of Babylon, but also Ha Satan and the False Messiah). They must not arise (succeed him in government) and take possession of the earth and fill the face of the world with cities (to perpetuate their glory and name).”
v 22…”And I will rise up against them” declares the Lord of hosts (Yehovah Tzavaot or armies), “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity” (all followers) declares Yehovah.
v 23…I will also make it a possession of the hedgehog (a habitation of demons-Isa 13.21-22; Rev 18.2) and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction” declares the Lord of hosts (Yehovah Tzavaot or armies).
v 24…The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened (nobody could stop it) and just as I have planned so it will stand.
v 25…to break the Assyrian (with Babylon destroyed, now he turns to Assyria, which is a picture of when the USA is destroyed, Russia will be next three years later-Isa 31.8-9; Num 24.24) in my land (Israel), and I will trample him on my mountains (the foothills of Judea was the turning point when Assyria attacked, and it will be again when Russia attacks in the birth-pains-Ezek 38.8; Isa 36 and 37; Mic 5.5-6). Then his yoke will be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulder.
v 26…This is the plan devised against the whole earth (by Yehovah); and this is the hand that is stretched out against all nations (Yehovah’s decree concerns all people. The remnant in Israel believes, Babylon and Assyria will be destroyed).
v 27…For the Lord of hosts (Yehovah Tzavaot or armies) has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for his stretched-out hand, who can turn it back (nobody)?”
v 28… In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came (a prophecy against the Philistines, who are the Palestinians eschatologically in the third year of the birth-pains because King Ahaz, the second king of the last ten kings of Judah, has died):
v 29…Do not rejoice (don’t get too excited yet because it is not over), O Philistia (Palestinians) all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken (the Davidic scepter in King Uzziah has died, who struck Philistia hard); for from the serpent’s root (Uzziah from the house of David, and Uzziah was seen by the Philistine point of view as a serpent, and hated like a serpent by the Philistines) a viper will come out (King Hezekiah will be worse than Uzziah as far as you are concerned), and its fruit will be a flying serpent (Hezekiah will defeat them-2 Kings 18.5-10, but ultimately the Messiah is seen as a fiery serpent or “saraph” in Num 21.8-9; John 3.14 and the serpent is also seen as the curse in the form of the judgment of God against all those who reject the Torah).
v 30…And the firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in security (there will be safety in the parts of Judah that were vulnerable to the Philistines); I will destroy your root (power of the Philistines) with famine, and it (the famine) will kill off your survivors (by God’s judgment).
v 31…Wail (howl), O gate (fortifications of the Philistines/Palestinians); cry, O city (some principal city like Gaza, Ashdod, etc); melt away (dissolve), O Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes from the north (the direction of judgment), and there is no straggler in his ranks (none will be staying behind to rest until the job is done).
v 32…How then will one answer the messengers of the nations (sent to Judah) that Yehovah has founded Zion (and will protect it from the Philistines), and the afflicted of his people will seek refuge in it (in the fortifications in Zion, with Yehovah as its protector).
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