Chapter23 is all about the future of Tyre. The city, which is a great port city will be abandoned and lay desolate for 70 yrs. After 70 yrs however, Tyre will once again play the harlot, here meaning that it will serve many cities. Notes tell us that this did indeed come to fruition.
Then we come again to visions of the end of days. Its bleak, people....very bleak indeed. And everyone is included, masters as well as slaves."The new wine mourns, the vine languishes; all the merrymakers sigh. The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the lyre is stopped. No more will they drink wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it." I think its the idea of such silence that's the creepiest.
I think its kind of funny that Isaiah tells the "good guys" to go in their house and lock the door until all of this is over. Don't know why I find that strange.....but I do. All the evil will be wiped out and only the good will be left, am I right? Is that how this is going to work? Because at first I was under the impression that everyone was going and He was just going to start fresh. But then the whole thing with the supernatural dew confused me, does this mean these dead are going to heaven? Why aren't they there already? or does it mean that they are literally coming back to have another go at it?
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You know, I'm not sure about those in Christ who are already passed. It says they shall rise again (to meet the Lord). So I'm not sure either whether we go to Heaven when we die, or "sleep" til He comes again. Something we'll have to keep thinking about as we read.
Saturday's reading is 2 Kings 18:1-8, 2 Chron. 29-31, and Ps. 48 (and you thought we were all done with Ps.)
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