[PhilipFreneau]

>>>See also Isaiah 24.<<<

I believe Isaiah had a tendency to consider Israel, and even Jerusalem, as "the earth." Did you read on into 25?

"For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built." (Isa 25:2 KJV)"

Philip

[jimmyray]

QUOTE: Did you read on into 25?

Did you? 25:8 states "he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.

an echo of that is found in 1 Cor 15:54, and Rev 21:4.

[jimmyray]

QUOTE: I believe Isaiah had a tendency to consider Israel, and even Jerusalem, as "the earth." Did you read on into 25?

One would have to be very imaginative and creative to believe the references in 24 to "the earth" actually means Jerusalem. It becomes even more problematic when one reads through Postmillenial glasses verse 20:

The earth (Jerusalem?) reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.

Jerusalem is a city now, and Israel still exists, I'm told.