Earth’s End-Time — History Repeating Itself

A reassuring fact about Isaiah’s prophecy is that Isaiah limits himself to predicting new things based on old things when depicting the end of the world. Over thirty ancient events—some that occurred before, some contemporary with, and some soon after Isaiah’s time—typify end-time events. To God’s people who know their history and have searched Isaiah’s writings for answers, therefore, those events won’t appear unfamiliar when they actually occur. To those who are acquainted with them who experience them, hindsight will turn into foresight. Perhaps that is a reason God commanded his people to continue to celebrate ancient events such as Israel’s Passover.

Of course, when those former events repeat themselves in the end-time, they won’t do so in the order they occurred before nor take thousands of years. This time around, moreover, they will happen on a world scale and not be limited to the Jews in the State of Israel. While the ancient names that Isaiah uses to describe nations and persons function as codenames of end-time ones, they no longer apply to nations and persons with the same names today. In fact, a sure way to identify which nations or entities Isaiah might be speaking about in today’s world is to be guided by Isaiah’s descriptions of them and to match them up with their possible modern counterparts.

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