Excerpt - Apocalyptic Commentary of the Book of Isaiah by Avraham Gileadi, Ph.D.

29:5–6 Suddenly, in an instant, your crowds of evildoers shall become as fine dust, your violent mobs like flying chaff. She shall be chastened by Jehovah of Hosts with thunderous quakings, resounding booms, tempestuous blasts and conflagrations of devouring flame.

When the archtyrant launches his worldwide holocaust, the “crowds of evildoers” and “violent mobs” among Jehovah’s people turn into “fine dust” and “flying chaff”—into chaotic matter or nonentities. The wicked’s rage against the righteous reaching fever pitch in those days signals that the end is near: “Those who gather into mobs are not of me; whoever masses against you shall fall because of you” (Isaiah 54:15). A fiery desolation awaits Ariel—the “Altar Hearth” (vv 1–2)—at the hands of Jehovah’s flame—the king of Assyria/Babylon (Isaiah 5:24; 9:18–19; 30:27; 42:25; 47:14; 66:15–16).

29:7–8 And the nations amassed to fight against Ariel, all who congregate at her stronghold to distress her, shall be as a dream seen in the night: like a hungry man who dreams he eats, but awakens famished, or like a thirsty man who dreams he drinks, but wakes up faint and craving. So shall be all the nations that amass to fight against Mount Zion.

The “nations” or “Gentiles” (goyim) who fight against Ariel—in this instance, the “Lion of God” (vv 1–2)—ultimately come away empty. Synonymously paralleled with Mount Zion, Ariel here denotes the righteous of Jehovah’s people or Jehovah’s valiant ones. In other words, the curses of his covenant, as represented by hunger and thirst, now come upon those who violate the rights of Jehovah’s elect. The nations who labor under the dream or delusion conjured up in the night—Jehovah’s Day of Judgment—that they can destroy his righteous people are in the end themselves destroyed (Isaiah 17:12–14).

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