Of the more than thirty ancient events of which Isaiah predicts end-time versions, one is a new exodus patterned after Israel's exodus out of Egypt, an event that is similarly followed by a wandering in the wilderness. The new exodus, however, is out of the entire world-out of Babylon that is about to be destroyed: "Go forth out of Babylon, flee from Chaldea! Make this announcement with resounding voice; broadcast it to the end of the earth. Say, 'Jehovah has redeemed his servant Jacob.' They thirsted not when he led them through arid places: he caused water to flow for them from the rock; he cleaved the rock and water gushed out" (Isaiah 48:20-21).
As Lot was led out of Sodom, so are participants in the new exodus: "The righteous disappear, and no man gives it a thought; the godly are gathered out, but no one perceives that from impending calamity the righteous are withdrawn" (Isaiah 57:1). "Come out of her and be pure, you who bear Jehovah's vessels. But you shall not leave in haste or go in flight: Jehovah will go before you, the God of Israel behind you" (Isaiah 52:11-12). "I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, 'Give up!' to the south, 'Withhold not! Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth'" (Isaiah 43:5-6).
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