A permanent method in the divine government of the earth. Israel is always the centre of the divine counsels earthward Deuteronomy 32:8. The Gentile nations are permitted to afflict Israel in chastisement for her national sins, but invariably and inevitably retribution falls upon them. See ; Genesis 15:13; Genesis 15:14; Deuteronomy 30:5-7; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 14:2; Joel 3:1-8; Micah 5:7-9; Matthew 25:31-40.
"That day": often the equivalent of "the day of the Lord" Isaiah 2:10-22; Revelation 19:11-21. The prophecy here passes from the general to the particular, from historic and fulfilled judgments upon Assyria to the final destruction of all Gentile world-power at the return of the Lord in glory. (See "Armageddon," ; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 19:21 "Times of the Gentiles," ; Luke 21:24; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 16:19 "The great tribulation," ; Psalms 2:5; Revelation 7:14; Revelation 7:14 and (See Scofield "Revelation 7:14- :")
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Bibliographical Information Scofield, C. I. "Scofield Reference Notes on Isaiah 10". "Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/srn/isaiah-10.html. 1917.
Verse 12
that when
A permanent method in the divine government of the earth. Israel is always the centre of the divine counsels earthward Deuteronomy 32:8. The Gentile nations are permitted to afflict Israel in chastisement for her national sins, but invariably and inevitably retribution falls upon them. See ; Genesis 15:13; Genesis 15:14; Deuteronomy 30:5-7; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 14:2; Joel 3:1-8; Micah 5:7-9; Matthew 25:31-40.
Verse 20
that day
"That day": often the equivalent of "the day of the Lord" Isaiah 2:10-22; Revelation 19:11-21. The prophecy here passes from the general to the particular, from historic and fulfilled judgments upon Assyria to the final destruction of all Gentile world-power at the return of the Lord in glory. (See "Armageddon," ; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 19:21 "Times of the Gentiles," ; Luke 21:24; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 16:19 "The great tribulation," ; Psalms 2:5; Revelation 7:14; Revelation 7:14 and (See Scofield "Revelation 7:14- :")