As Babylon was being attacked by the Persians (Medes, Elamites) … she was apparently having a “wild” party! She as a nation died “sinning egregiously!” My proof? Isaiah 21:4-5, some clauses found there. “The night of my pleasure hath He (God) turned into fear.” Then immediately: “Prepare the (banquet) table, eat and drink ye princes.” (This scene is depicted in much greater detail in Daniel chapter 5 … Belshazzar’s party! The Handwriting on the Wall! The fall of Babylon! Here we have an Isaiah/Daniel nexus!)

Wow!

Next I think we see the role of Isaiah (the Prophet) as a “watchman” to the nations. In Isaiah 21:6 God commands: “Go, set a watchman and let him declare what he seeth.” Then later in verse 11: “Watchman, what of the night?” (Ezekiel also was called “watchman” by the Lord, time and time again! Now we have an Isaiah/Ezekiel nexus!)

Also I have noticed an interesting fact in Isaiah 21:7. “He saw a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels!” Unusual! Employing assess (donkeys) and camels in warfare? But ancient armies did so … when feasible. Particularly the Persian army, who is here conquering the Babylonians! (One of the thousands of “undesigned coincidences” in the Bible, all of which prove it to be the accurate Word of God!)

Wow!

Thus, God has given another barrage of nations a good “threshing.” Read with me verse 10 of our chapter: “O my threshing, which I have heard of the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel.” Our Lord whipping these enemy nations, mostly due to their many blatant sins … but also due to their hatred for Israel.

Isaiah, a massive Book of Scripture!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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