Celebrating the Servant-Savior The Gospel of Isaiah Jason S. DeRouchie, PhD Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology Bethlehem College & Seminary www.jasonderouchie.com Bethlehem Baptist Church, 2017

Isaiah 24–27: Outline Main theme: God’s Desolation and Recreation of His World/Garden City Outline: The promise of the earth’s desolation and the wasted city (24:1) The results (24:2–27:13) Result 1 “And it shall be”: The emptying and plundering of the earth (24:2–17) Result 2 “And it shall be”: The irreversible destruction of the earth’s wicked (24:18–20) Result 3 “And it shall be”: The death of death in the reign of God (24:21–27:11) Result 4 “And it shall be”: The great ingathering (27:12) Result 5 “And it shall be”: The remnant’s worship of YHWH at his mountain (27:13)

Isaiah 24–27: Outline Main theme: God’s Desolation and Recreation of His World/Garden City Outline: The promise of the earth’s desolation and the wasted city (24:1) The results (24:2–27:13) Result 1 “And it shall be”: The emptying and plundering of the earth (24:2–17) Result 2 “And it shall be”: The irreversible destruction of the earth’s wicked (24:18–20) Result 3 “And it shall be”: The death of death in the reign of God (24:21–27:11) Result 4 “And it shall be”: The great ingathering (27:12) Result 5 “And it shall be”: The remnant’s worship of YHWH at his mountain (27:13)

Result 3: The Death of Death in the Reign of God (24:21–27:11) Description 1 “In the day” (24:21–25:12) Description 2 “In that day” (26:1–21) Description 3 “In that day” (27:1) Description 4 “In that day” (27:2–11)

Result 3: The Death of Death in the Reign of God (24:21–27:13) Description 1 “In the day”: The punishment of the wicked and the salvation of the oppressed (24:21–25:12) The restraining of the wicked in order to preserve the oppressed (24:21–25:5) The feast for the saved and the swallowing up of death (25:6–12)

The restraining of the wicked and the praises of the preserved (24:21–25:5) The temporary imprisonment and future punishment of all those hostile to YHWH’s reign (24:21–23) “The host of heaven/heights” vs. “the kings of the earth/ground” (v. 21) Imprisoned before punishment (v. 22; cf. 27:1) Isa 27:1. In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Rev 20:1–6. Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Millennial Views

Millennial Views

The reign and glory of YHWH’s outshines the luminaries before the elders (v. 23) Rev 21:23–25. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp in the Lamb. 24 But its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day––and there will be no more night.