War Horses Fall, Prisons Open

Please be patient, still having internet issues.  Am happy to get at least one or two blogs done here.  Hopefully, soon  this issue will be fixed for a long while.  So, if I miss doing one at any time, it will be most likely internet issues.  God Bless you all.


"This is what Jehovah has said, the Repurchaser of you people, the Holy One of Israel: 'For your sakes I will send to Babylon and cause the bars of the prisons to come down, and the Chaldeans in the ships with whining cries on their part. I am Jehovah your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.'  This is what Jehovah has said, the One making a way through the sea itself and a roadway even through strong waters, the One bringing forth the war chariot and the horse, the military force and the strong ones at the same time: 'They will lie down. They will not get up. They will certainly  be extinguished. Like a flaxen wick they must be put out.' " -Isaiah 43:14-17.

Babylon is like a prison to the exiles in that it prevents their return to Jerusalem. But Babylon's defenses are no obstacle to the Almighty, the One who earlier made "a way through the [Red Sea]  itself and a roadway even through strong waters"-apparently those of the Jordan.  (Exodus 14:16; Joshua 3:13)  In a similar way, Jehovah's agent, Cyrus, will make the mighty Euphrates recede, allowing his warriors entry into the city. Chaldean merchants plying Babylon's canals-waterways for thousands of commercial galleys and for barges carrying the Babylonian gods-will whine in grief when their mighty capital falls. Like Pharaoh's chariots in the Red Sea, Babylon's swift chariots will be helpless.  They will not save her. As easily as one extinguishes the flaxen wick of an oil lamp, the invader will snuff out the lives of any would-be defenders.

Next time: Jehovah Leads His People Safely Home

From the Book Isaiah's Prophecy Light for all Mankind, Volume II, 2001