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Isaiah’s Ancient Types of End-Time Events

“…Thirty such types show how history repeats itself at the end of the world.”

 

1. Israel’s Apostasy

“…the apostasy of God’s people—that is, of those who profess to be God’s covenant people in that day. … the world’s end-time scenario is set in motion by the apostasy of God’s people in that day—they are its catalyst.

….The people’s biggest problem, ancient and end-time, is their idolatry—their infatuation with the things of this world: ……..
This prophetic pattern of God’s judgments coming upon his people and upon the ancient world at the hands of an invading power from the North as a consequence of his people’s apostasy accords with the apostasy of God’s end-time people similarly being the catalyst of a world conquest and destruction by an invading power from the North, except that this time it heralds the end of the world.

2. The Tower of Babel

…. God gives his people “a pure language so that all may all call on the name of Jehovah and serve him with one accord” (Zephaniah 3:9).

Meanwhile, the earth’s wayward inhabitants—those who follow the vain imaginations of their hearts in the modern world—God destroys in his Day of Judgment: …

3. The Babylonian Captivity

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As an end-time event, involving those who claim to be God’s people in that day, the new “Babylonian Captivity” resembles the old except that this time it isn’t limited to the ancient Near East but encompasses the entire world. Although it comes as a covenant curse on the heels of the apostasy of God’s people just as it does in the past, this coercive new world order impacts not only them but nations and peoples everywhere.

4. The Call of Abraham

…. God commands Abraham to leave: “Jehovah said to Abram, … only persons who are righteous as Abraham was righteous heed Jehovah’s call: …

5. Lot’s Deliverance from Sodom

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In the end-time version of these events, when wickedness peaks to the degree it did in Sodom and Gomorrah, God again rescues his elect while many others of his people perish for corrupting their lives: … “The righteous disappear, and no man gives it a thought; the godly are gathered out, but no one perceives that from impending calamity the righteous are withdrawn. They who walk uprightly shall attain peace, and rest in their beds” (Isaiah 57:1–2).

Just as Abraham acted as a proxy savior to Lot when God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, so God’s end-time servants act as proxy saviors to those whom God delivers from an end-time Sodom and Gomorrah type of destruction: …

6. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

…..Because such wickedness by God’s end-time people is the catalyst of a worldwide Sodom and Gomorrah type of desolation, …

7. Cosmic Disturbance

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“The Day of Jehovah shall come as a cruel outburst of anger and wrath to make the earth a desolation, that sinners may be annihilated from it. The stars and constellations of the heavens will not shine. When the sun rises, it shall be obscured; nor will the moon give its light. . . . I will cause disturbance in the heavens when the earth is jolted out of place by the anger of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his blazing wrath”…..Isaiah’s end-time version of cosmic disturbance thus coincides with God’s Day of Judgment coming upon the earth’s unrepentant inhabitants, including those of his own people.

8. Primordial Chaos

……The chaotic condition of the earth during its formation from cosmic debris in the beginning is nevertheless repeated in the end as its inhabitants’ wickedness leads to a similar dissolution of elements into a disorganized state. ……

9. Assyria’s World Conquest

transforms the entire Book of Isaiah into an apocalyptic prophecy, ancient Assyria’s conquest of the then-known world typifies an end-time world conquest by an end-time “Assyria.” …


Passing himself off as the god of this world, the archtyrant’s self-exaltation finally leads to his utter humiliation: …

10. The Flood



The new Flood that Isaiah predicts, on the other hand, although similarly destructive of men and beasts, is manmade. Using flood imagery to depict
Assyria’s end-time conquest of the world, Isaiah links this new Flood to the old. By comparing the Assyrian archtyrant and his alliance of nations to the sea in commotion and to a river in flood, Isaiah draws on ancient Near Eastern mythology to tell us that the new Flood is as devastating as the old and serves the same purpose. …
Assyria and its alliance meet the same fate they impose on the world they destroy and subjugate…

11. Assyria’s Invasion of the Promised Land

….The end-time Assyrian alliance acts much the same as its ancient counterpart when Jehovah summons it to invade his people’s lands…

12. The Egyptian Bondage

…..Although the end-time versions of ancient events are much briefer in duration—all being compressed into a period of just a few years—their reality matches what occurred in the past….Those of his people who repent, on the other hand, God releases from bondage after the curse serves its purpose of restoring them to a covenant relationship with him….

13. Israel’s Exodus out of Egypt

…..In the same way Jehovah intervenes in his people’s affairs when he raises up Moses and empowers him to deliver Israel from bondage anciently, so he intervenes again when he raises up and empowers his end-time servant—his mighty arm—to deliver his people at the end of the world. …Israel’s end-time exodus, however, instead of being from a single land—Egypt—is out of Babylon…So great an event is the new, end-time exodus of God’s people that only the new, not the old, is celebrated in the millennial age: “‘The days come,’ says Jehovah, ‘that it will no more be said, “Jehovah lives, who brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,” but “Jehovah loves, who brought the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them.” For I will bring them again into the land I gave their fathers’” (Jeremiah 16:14–15).

14. Israel’s Wandering in the Wilderness

…….Although the end-time sequel of Israel’s wandering in the wilderness is much briefer in comparison, it has the same purifying and sanctifying effect on God’s people in preparing them to inherit promised lands as Israel’s ancient dwelling in the wilderness….

Isaiah predicts that God appoints his end-time servant to lead the new exodus and new wandering in the wilderness just as Moses does in antiquity…
The new wandering in the wilderness has a way of leveling the playing field for God’s end-time people as they anticipate Jehovah’s coming to reign on the earth…

15. Israel’s Pilgrimage to Zion

…. patterned after Israel’s ancient pilgrimages to the temple. Annually or bi-annually, Israel’s tribes gathered from throughout the Promised Land to Jerusalem to renew their covenants with Jehovah and bring offerings to the temple…. In the end-time version of these events, when the rest of the world is suffering God’s judgments, those who love Jehovah rejoice in taking part in the great gathering to his temple…

16. Jehovah’s Protective Cloud

God provided divine protection for Israel when it came out of the land of Egypt by placing his cloud of glory over them to shield them from the elements and to separate them from their enemies: …Jehovah accompanies their end-time travels: “Jehovah will go before you, the God of Israel behind you” (Isaiah 52:12).

17. Assyria’s Siege of Jerusalem

….Just as King Hezekiah performs the spiritual role of a proxy savior to his people, so does God’s servant in the end-time sequel to these events. …

18. The Passover

.. commanded the Israelites to observe the Passover “throughout your generations” (Exodus 12:14, 42) was to foreshadow what he would do at the end of time … end-time Passover in which those who rely of Jehovah’s proxy salvation escape his wrath upon a wicked world..

19. Jehovah’s Descent on the Mount

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Jehovah’s appearance to the elders of his people on
Mount Sinai has a sequel in his end-time appearance to his elders at the time he comes to reign on the earth: ….

20. Jehovah’s Consuming Fire

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As the earth was “baptized” with water in the days of Noah, so it is “baptized” with fire at the end of the world …

21. Israel’s Conquest of the Promised Land

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As the millennial age dawns, God’s people spread throughout the earth: ..

22. Israel’s Victory over Midian


Isaiah predicts similar such miraculous victories over an Assyrian alliance that threatens God’s end-time ….

23. Cyrus’ Universal Conquests

a composite figure. That figure—God’s end-time servant—resembles Cyrus, Moses, David, Abraham, and others in the various roles he performs. His universal mission is “for the sake of my servant Jacob and Israel my chosen…

24. The Davidic Monarchy

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The end-time context of Isaiah’s prophecy as a whole that Isaiah’s Seven-Part Structure establishes nevertheless determines that the servant’s mission is an end-time mission, one that exhibits two distinct phases: (1) a conditional or descent phase, in which the servant answers to Israel’s God for the disloyalties of his people under the terms of the Davidic Covenant in order to obtain their divine protection when enemies threaten; and (2) an unconditional or ascent phase, in which the servant is crowned king as was King David by Israel’s tribes. The first emphasizes the servant’s “servant” phase, in which he fulfills the spiritual role of a proxy savior to God’s people in the pattern of King Hezekiah. The second emphasizes his “son” phase, in which he fulfills the physical role of reconquering the world from the Assyrian alliance in the pattern of King David’s conquest of the ancient Near East and of Cyrus the Persian’s conquest of the Babylonian Empire.

…Sadly, as entire messianic constructs built up in people’s minds on faulty interpretive foundations inherited from the Dark Ages of apostasy mislead the masses even to this day, it seems apparent that God’s end-time servant and those servants of God who act of proxy saviors under the terms of the Davidic Covenant in restoring his end-time people and preparing them to meet Jehovah/Jesus at his coming must experience their descent phases of trials and afflictions at the hands of those very same misled masses who refuse to invest their time in analyzing Isaiah’s and other messianic prophecies to determine for themselves what they actually say, but who instead are content to parrot back what they are led to believe they say. Such is the paradox of God’s people’s interpersonal relationships: that those who are most “vigilant for his word” (Isaiah 66:5)—as evidenced by their searching the scriptures to see “whether those things are so” (Acts 17:11)—should suffer most at the hands of ecclesiastical brethren who, to their own condemnation, hold fast to popular but scripturally unsupported “precepts of men” (Isaiah 29:13; 51:7; 61:7; 65:13–15; 66:5).

25. Rebuilding of the Temple

.. God’s end-time servant likewise announces the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem

26. The Reign of the Judges


At the time he restores end-time
Israel, Jehovah once again raises up judges to judge his people. In that day…

27. Jehovah’s Covenant



As God endowed his priests and Levites anciently with his holy Spirit, so he does his end-time elect…

29. The Creation


Many others at that time also ascend to exalted spiritual levels, fulfilling the ultimate purpose of God’s creation: …

30. Paradise


Zion’s beauty surpasses previous experience as the earth’s millennial inhabitants partake of the spiritual and temporal salvation God promises those who prove loyal to him through the evil time: …