Isaiah 66:15

For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. BEHOLD, THE LORD WILL COME WITH FIRE - ( Isaiah 9:5 _ ; Psalms 50:3_ _ ; Habakkuk 3:5_ _ ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8_ ; 2 Peter 3:7 _ .) _ CHARIOTS LIKE A WHIRLWIND - (Jeremiah 4:13.) To render his anger with fury -

15._For, lo, Jehovah will come in fire. _The object of this ( ὑποτύπωσις) lively description is, that believers, when they see worthless men laughing at their distresses, and growing more and more insolent, may not on that account turn aside from the right path, or lose courage; for he intended not only to smite wicked men, who are moved by no threatenings, and scorn all instruction, (225) but to comfort good men, that they may feel that they are happy, because they are under God’s protection; and may not attach themselves to the wicked on account of the prosperity of all their undertakings. Their advantage is, therefore, what he has chiefly in view, that they may be satisfied with God’s protection and grace. But it may admit of doubt whether or not he includes the last judgment, along with the temporal punishments with which he now begins to chastise the wicked. For my own p

15-24 A prophetic declaration is given of the Lord's vengeance on all enemies of his church, especially that of all antichristian opposers of the gospel in the latter days. Ver...

Verse Isaiah 66:15. _THE LORD WILL COME WITH FIRE_ - "JEHOVAH shall come as a fire"] For באש _baesh, in fire_, the _Septuagint_ had in their copy קאש _kaesh, as a fire_; ὡς πυρ. _TO RENDER HIS ANGER WITH FURY_ - "To breathe forth his anger in a burning heat"] Instead of להשב _lehashib_, as pointed by the Masoretes, _to render_, I understand it as להשב _lehashshib, to_ _breathe_, from נשב _nashab_....

FOR BEHOLD, THE LORD WILL COME WITH FIRE - The Septuagint reads this ‘As fire’ (ὡς πύρ _hōs_ _pur_). Fire is a common emblem to denote the coming of the Lord to judge and punish his enemies Psalms 50:3 : Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; A fire shall devour before him, And it shall be very tempestuous round about him. So Habakkuk 2:5 : Before him went the pestilence, And burning co

SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED. Israel, being about to return from the Captivity, had the design of rebuilding the temple and re-establishing the temple worship. God rebukes this design in persons devoid of any spirit of holiness, and warns them that mere formal outward worship is an abomination to him (Isaiah 66:1). In Isaiah 66:4 he threatens them wi

FOR, BEHOLD, THE LORD WILL COME WITH FIRE,.... Either with material fire, with which mystical Babylon or Rome shall be burnt, Revelation 18:8, or with indignation and wrath, which shall be poured out like fire, and be as intolerable and consuming as that: AND WITH HIS CHARIOTS LIKE A WHIRLWIND; making a great noise, and striking great terror; alluding to chariots in which men used formerly to fight: TO RENDER HIS ANGER WITH FURY, AND HIS REBUKE WITH FLAMES OF FIRE; a heap of words, to show the fierceness of his wrath, and how severe his rebuke of enemies will be; which will be not a rebuke in love, as of his own people, but in a way of vindictive wrath....

RENDER HIS ANGER (Day of Jehovah); (Isaiah 2:10); (Isaiah 4:1); (Isaiah 11:10); (Isaiah 13:9); (Isaiah 24:21); (Isaiah 26:20); (Isaiah 26:21); (Isaiah 63:1); (Isaiah 66:15); ...

CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3. _The sudden manifestation of the Lord (Isaiah 66:6) _ 4. _The nation's rebirth (Isaiah 66:7) _ 5. _Jerusalem's supremacy and glory (Isaiah 66:10) _ 6. _The warning of judgment (Isaiah 66:15) _ 7. The regathering after judgment ...

ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK ON THE PROJECTORS OF A RIVAL TEMPLE. Those Jews who refused to accept the reformed religion apparently proposed to set up a rival temple. Yahweh scornfully demands of them in what manner of building they would house Him, whose habitation is the universe. These things a temple and a resting-place He has already made for Himself, on Zion; for despite His loftiness He ever considers the humble and obedient worshipper. As for these rebels who combine forbidden with legitimate rites, such as human sacrifice, the sacrifice of a dog without effusion of blood, the sacrificial use of swine's blood, and honouring of images, just as they choose their own perverse ways so will He choose to make t