# 28 2025 Dev. Isa.21:10. God Speaks! Read all of chapter twenty-one first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Isa.21:10I “I tell you what I have heard from the Lord Almighty, from the God of Israel.” Does God still speak today?
Isaiah 21 is a prophecy against Babylon, Edom and Arabia. He uses metaphors and similes, “the desert by the sea.” Babylon, a place of rivers and lakes. What is left of the night? The heat of battle.
Vs1-10 A dire vision has been shown to me, Elam, (Persia) attack! Media, lay siege! The prophet experiences the destruction vicariously; I am “racked with pain… I am staggered by what I hear… I am bewildered… My heart falters…fear makes me tremble…” Next, Isaiah seems to describe the feasting of Belshazzar. “This is what the Lord says to me: ‘Go, post a lookout… when he sees chariots… and riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him be alert, fully alert… Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower…” Finally, he gets an answer, ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!’” Going back to v.2 “I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused” referring to v.10 “My people who are crushed on the threshing floor…”
Does this prophecy have something to say about Israel and Iran today?
Vs.11-12. A prophecy against Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, meaning silence. “Someone calls to me from Seir, ‘Watchman, what is left of the night?’” He is urgent, asking it twice. The answer, “Morning Is coming but also the night” referring to silence. The watchmen, the prophets of those days, the pastors are watchmen of today, if not, they should be.
Vs.13-15. “A prophecy against Arabia. Dedanites, descendants from Dedan, Abraham’s son by Keturah. Bring water… bring food for the fugitives. They flee from the sword…from the drawn bow… from the heat of battle.” In one year “all the splendor of Kedar, (descendants from Ishmael) will come to an end.” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken. Today, God still speaks, through nature, through His Word, the Bible and through His church the body of Christ. Are we listening? May Jesus, by His Spirit, open our ears, our minds and our hearts!
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