Three Years' Warning Followed by Judgment

As "God will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7), he gives ample warning before cleansing the earth of wickedness, in the end-time as anciently. In Isaiah's day, for example, God commands Isaiah to go naked and barefoot for three years as a portent of Assyria's invasion of Egypt (Isaiah 20:2-4). (Not known for being politically correct by modern standards, God ever leaves room for doubters to reject his warnings.) Similarly, God gives Moab, a kindred people, three years' warning-"like the term of a lease"-before Moab's glory turns to shame, its large populace perishes, and but few residents remain (Isaiah 16:14).

Isaiah's Seven-Part Structure, however, makes both Egypt and Moab integral parts of a multi-national conglomerate of foreign powers that come under a kind of "Babylon" umbrella. This Greater Babylon-akin to John's Babylon the Great (Revelation 17:5)-goes into the dust at the time Zion rises from the dust (Isaiah 47:1; 52:1-2). For a time, a righteous remnant of God's people dwells in the wilderness, surviving on nomads' food (Isaiah 7:14-15, 21-22; 37:30). As the events of the past that Isaiah records regularly function as types of end-time events, this scenario will repeat itself when God destroys end-time "Babylon" and raises up his people Zion.

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