Here is today’s WTW assignment should you choose to accept it.
Take a large notepad, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Isaiah 18, in your own words.
Then do the same for today’s chapter 21 as well as chapters 19 & 20.
You don’t have to write each chapter word for word, but write the message God is speaking. Write as writing God’s own words so it is as clear and understandable as it should be.
Chapters 18 and 20 are only 7 and 6 verses long respectively, so writing the full message of those 2 chapters will be ideal. For the others, a summary will do. And finally, an overview summary of the entire message of chapters 18-21 will be especially good in your own words for understanding what God is speaking in these chapters. What God has spoken and what He is speaking…to you, to me, to us…to all, through these chapters in His WORD.
This is your assignment… should you choose to accept it.
Take a large notepad
And
Take a man’s pen.
Then share what you write.
Wisdom in the WORD 
My notes on Isaiah 21.
More judgement against nations. The story of Babylon at the beginning of the chapter seems most significant.
We see God call for Persia (Elam) and the Medes (Media) to destroy Babylon (vs 2).
Remember the handwriting on the wall that Daniel interpreted for Balthazar while he was in captivity in Babylon? That was a century or more later than this prophecy, and it too predicted the Medes and Persians destroying Babylon.
This destruction was done at the hands of Cyrus the Great. In Isaiah 45:1 he was called God’s anointed. He freed Israel and even supported them in rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem.
As we talked before, Babylon was not only a powerful kingdom, its legacy lives on now and will until the end. Isaiah 21:9 is echoed in Revelation.
Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”
And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
Revelation 14:8
And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”
Revelation 18:2-3
She corrupted nations; nations corrupted themselves by her.
And we see the successor of Cyrus, Jesus, finish the work in destroying Babylon and its independent spirit and rebellion against God. Not in the same way that Cyrus destroyed ancient Babylon. While Cyrus destroyed permanently the physical Babylon, Jesus raised a standard by which all can be rescued from Babylon’s grip, and this is also available now. Her legacy will be permanently destroyed at the end, but Jesus has already made a way of escape, an end to slavery of fear and evil.
And Edom clearly lives in fear: “how much longer will the night watch last”, only to find out that after daylight, it’ll start all over again. Jesus also frees from such fear.
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
Hebrews 2:14-15
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***MIND BLOWN***
Oy vey¡ It’s almost hard to believe that insightful zoom study we had that shed so much light on both historic and systemic Babylon was just last Saturday 2/13.
https://wtw.family.blog/2021/02/13/jaw-drop/
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