Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Friday, May 23, 2014

Isaiah 14

Continuing from yesterday's blog concerning the "burden of Babylon" being a symbol of Satan's worldly kingdom, and this destruction in the last days., obviously this includes wicked kings and leaders for  -

"The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 14:5)

And of these symbolic wicked and corrupt leaders of "spiritual Babylon", the Lord continues -

"Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 14:9 - 11)

Obviously, consequence spoken here is not of Satan, because he never had a body.  But then the focus turns to Satan, being the ultimate ruler of "spiritual Babylon" -

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?"  (Old Testament | Isaiah 14:12 - 17)

Of all Babylon, both city and in the end, the Lord declares a painful and sad end result that is a very important
doctrine -

"For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 14:22)

In my mind, of spiritual Babylon, the Lord is saying to the wicked and corrupt, I will cut off your eternal family, offspring, and relationships forever.