ISAIAH 27 - Deliverance of Israel 

NOTES BY VERSE

Note: each ** comment in this document is listed in numerical order according to the verse(s) from this chapter

** The first verse of Isaiah 27 paints in vivid symbolic language the judgment against the great world powers (specifically Assyria, Babylon and possibly Egypt) who had shed blood against the Lord’s people  <C32>

“Leviathan” (a large sea vessel/creature) first appears in the book of Job and represents a Supra-mundane power, and is a symbol of Satan himself; visions often incorporate animal imagery

Isaiah 27:1 NIV

[1] In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword---his fierce, great and powerful sword---Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.

Job 3:8 NIV

[8] May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

Daniel 7:2-7 NIV

[2] Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea. [3] Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea. [4] “The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it. [5] “And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, 'Get up and eat your fill of flesh!' [6] “After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule. [7] “After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast---terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.

Ezekiel 29:3 NIV

[3] Speak to him and say: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ 'I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me; I made it for myself.”

Ezekiel 17:3 NIV

[3] Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: A great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers and full plumage of varied colors came to Lebanon. Taking hold of the top of a cedar

** God will protect Israel and she will flourish; should briars and thorns (enemies of Israel) spring up, then the Lord would take care of them  <C32>

Isaiah 27:2-3,6 NIV

[2] In that day---“Sing about a fruitful vineyard: [3] I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. [6] In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

Isaiah 27:4-5 NIV

[4] I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire. [5] Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”

Isaiah 9:18 NIV

[18] Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

2 Samuel 23:6-7 NIV

[6] But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand. [7] Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”

Ezekiel 2:6 NIV

[6] And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.

Another commentary says “briars and thorns” represent those who have fallen in the Church, as in the thorns among the harvest  <B20>

Isaiah 10:17 NIV

[17] The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

** The Lord's care of His people is ceaseless...

• No parent was ever so vigilant over a precious and only child

• No gardener was ever so attentive to a delicate and favorite plant

• God visits, He watches, He supplies

• He studies our needs, and provides for each of them

• God's SUPPLY will be constant, in every season

• It will be suitable, like refreshing moisture to a thirsty plant

• It will be in small portions, as the gently falling rain

• It will be imperceptible, like the morning dews

If the Lord would cease to water, we would soon wither and die!

• It is by these divine 'supplies' that our graces are kept alive

• Our dependence on Him is absolute!

• Our obligations to His love are infinite!

Let us not imagine that we are not watered, because we do not sensibly feel it. The constancy, and the gentle gradual manner in which we are supplied, render His loving care virtually imperceptible.  <S183>

Hosea 6:3 NIV

[3] Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. ”

Isaiah 27:3 NIV

[3] I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.

** Israel became one of the largest exporter of produce in the world in the 20th century

Isaiah 27:6 NIV

[6] In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

Joel 3:18 NIV

[18] “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord's house and will water the valley of acacias.

Isaiah 41:18-20 NIV

[18] I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. [19] I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, [20] so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

** The gathering of God's elect at the trumpet call is the gathering of Israel at the end of the Tribulation period in fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy  <W213>

Matthew 24:30-31 NIV

“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. [31] And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Isaiah 27:13 NIV

[13] And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

** Pray that God’s work through Israel will be an encouragement for nations to come to a saving grace, and they one day worship the Lord God on Jerusalem’s holy mountain

Psalm 72:1,6,8,11 NIV

[1] Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness. [6] May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth. [8] May he rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. [11] May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.

Isaiah 27:9,12-13 NIV

[9] By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing. [12] In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. [13] And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:2 NIV

[2] In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Matthew 24:31 NIV

[31] And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Revelation 11:15 NIV

[15] The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”

Isaiah 19:21-25 NIV

[21] So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. [22] The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. [23] In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. [24] In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. [25] The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance. ”

Isaiah 49:7 NIV

[7] This is what the Lord says---the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel---to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 66:23 NIV

[23] From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:34,41 NIV

[34] I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered---with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath. [41] I will accept you as fragrant incense when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy through you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 39:25 NIV

[25] “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.

Daniel 11:45 NIV

[45] He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

Zechariah 8:7 NIV

[7] This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will save my people from the countries of the east and the west.

Zechariah 14:16 NIV

[16] Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

** There will be two regathering of Jews from around the world to the Jewish state of Israel  <H86>

FIRST GATHERING IN JUDGMENT

• First regathering of Jews will be for judgment purposes leading into the Tribulation

• Jews wanting to escape antisemitism in their home country will make way to Israel

• The regathering started with the Dryfus Affair in the 1890s and was fueled by the Hamas Attack in 2023

Ezekiel 20:33-35 NIV  

Ezekiel 22:17-22 NIV

Ezekiel 36:24-27 NIV

Zephaniah 2:1-2 NIV

[1] Gather together, gather yourselves together,

 you shameful nation, [2] before the decree takes effect and that day passes like windblown chaff, before the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes upon you.

SECOND GATHERING IN BELIEF

• There will be a second regathering of Jews who believe in Christ

• Jews will gather again in belief after His second coming and be ushered into the Millennial kingdom  

Isaiah 27:12-13 NIV

[12] In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. [13] And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3 NIV

Isaiah 11:11-12 NIV

Isaiah 43:5-7 NIV

Jeremiah 16:14-15 NIV

Jeremiah 23:3-4,7-8 NIV

Jeremiah 31:7-10 NIV

Ezekiel 11:14-18 NIV

Amos 9:14-15 NIV

Zephaniah 3:18-20 NIV

Zechariah 10:8-9,12 NIV

Matthew 24:31 NIV

Mark 13:27 NIV