Isaiah chapter 14 - 2nd Chronicles

As we noted in the previous discussion about 1st Chronicles, 1st and 2nd Chronicles were originally two halves of the same scroll/book. Even the Jewish Bible has them as two separate books.

We also noted that chapters thirteen and fourteen of Isaiah treat related subjects. We saw that chapter thirteen deals with God’s judgment of two distinct entities called Babylon, the spiritual Babylon and the physical Babylon we call Iraq today.

In that study we concluded that the connection between Isaiah’s chapter thirteen and the thirteenth book of the Bible, 1st Chronicles was that each one was a description of the beginning of the end; Isaiah chapter thirteen for the beginning of the end of spiritual Babylon, and 1st Chronicles as the beginning of the end of the Kingdom of Israel. This is not to be the final status of Israel, but it was the final status as far as the monarchy of the house of David was concerned.

Isaiah chapter fourteen begins with God placing Israel in the own land, and making that land a place of peace and rest for them.

“For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve” (Isaiah 14:1-3)

The prophecy then moves to God’s judgment of the king of Babylon, and we note that the name that comes up is the name of the king of spiritual Babylon, Lucifer. This is the subject of verses four through verse twenty. We read such statements as;

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.” (Isaiah 14:12-20)

Who owns the title deed to the Earth right now? Lucifer/Satan/the Devil, and in these verses he comes to a ‘temporary’ end. We can read in the book of Revelation, chapter twenty, verse ten as to what will be the final status of Lucifer.

“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:10)

Going down into the pit is only a temporary end to Lucifer, much like the temporary end of the kingly line of Israel with Zedekiah, and that just happens to be a connection between Isaiah chapter fourteen and the book of 2nd Chronicles.