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

32:19* For by a hail shall forests be felled, cities utterly leveled.

The synonymous parallelism of forests and cities signifies that besides its literal meaning the term “forests” functions as a metaphor for “cities”—just as mountains functions as a metaphor for kingdoms or nations and trees for people (Isaiah 13:4; 61:3; 64:1–3). The one who fells the forests or levels the cities is the king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah’s axe and saw (Isaiah 10:15; 14:8; 37:24). Identified with storm imagery in Jehovah’s Day of Judgment (Isaiah 8:7–8; 17:12–13; 28:15), he is the hail that flattens the habitations of the wicked in a Sodom-and-Gomorrah type of destruction (Isaiah 28:2, 17, 22).

32:15 Then shall a Spirit from on high be poured out on us; the desert shall become productive land and lands now productive be reckoned as brushwood.

At the very time Jehovah pours out a fiery destruction from on high upon the wicked, he pours out his Spirit from on high on the righteous. In a reversal of circumstances between fertile lands and wilderness, the “desert” or wilderness blossoms while fertile lands revert to wilderness. Reflective of the righteous who go into the wilderness at the onset of Jehovah’s Day of Judgment, and of the wicked who remain behind amidst ruination, the earth’s entire landscape changes to accommodate Jehovah’s blessing of the righteous and curse upon the wicked (Isaiah 7:21–24; 14:17; 35:1–7; 43:19–21).


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