Isaías 34
Warren Wiersbe · Citado em PreceptAustin
Isaías 34
Wiersbe - In Isaiah 34:5–8, the prophet moves from the battlefield to the temple and sees this worldwide judgment as a great sacrifice that God offers. (See Jer. 46:10; 50:27; Ezek. 39:17–19.) The practice was for the people to kill the sacrifices and offer them to God, but now it is God who offers the wicked as sacrifices (ED: COMPARE "WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH" - Ro 6:23+). (Be Comforted)
Isaías 34
Wiersbe - God sees His enemies as animals: Rams, goats, lambs, oxen, and bulls are all sacrificed, along with the fat (Lev. 3:9–11). These nations sacrificed the Jews, so God used them for sacrifices. (Bolding added) A year of recompense (requittal, retribution) for the cause of Zion - NLT = "the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel" CSB = "a time of paying back Edom for its hostility against Zion." As the NLT paraphrases it Zion is taken as representative of the entire nation of Israel. Recompense means the act of compensating for service, loss, or injury. Unless one experiences a day of repentance, they are doomed to experience the day of recompense. We are reminded of God's promise in Genesis 12:3+ "And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Zechariah writes "For thus says the LORD of hosts, "After glory He has sent Me (MESSIAH) against the nations which plunder you (ISRAEL), for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye." The reason for God's payback is clearly given. It is specifically for all who have opposed the cause of Zion. In other words, those people who have mistreated the nation of Israel, the apple of God's eye, will have their evil come back on their own head. The Anti-Semitic Gentile powers are going to be repaid for what they have done against Israel! THOUGHT - Beloved, let me ask you -- Do you harbor any germ of Anti-Semitism in your heart? If you do, you need to confess it and repent and bring forth fruit in keeping with repentance such as praying for the peace of Jerusalem (Ps 122:6).