Isaiah Chapter 13
Contents Discussed: The Destruction of Babylon, maybe Germany? The EU in general? North Italian (Etruscan) female ancestry of many Ashkenazi Jews. End Times War? Biological warfare? Nuclear devastation? Gold in Ancient Ireland, and today? Will refugees from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, due to ecological disasters flood into Europe and North America? Mixed ancestry of Iranian Peoples, Shem, Ham, and Japhet.
Isaiah 13:1 THE BURDEN OF BABYLON, WHICH ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ DID SEE.
The name "Amoz" the father of Isaiah is pronounced as "Amots." This is similar to the name of King Amaziah, pronounced "Amatsiah". Amazaiah was the father of King Uzziah within whose days Isaiah had begun his Prophecy.
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Isaiah (TCT) 1:
1 THE VISION OF ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ, WHICH HE SAW CONCERNING JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AHAZ, [AND] HEZEKIAH, KINGS OF JUDAH.
The Sages said that Amoz the father of Isaiah was the brother of Amasaiah. Isaiah was therefore from the family of David and of the Tribe of Judah and closely related to th e ruling house of Judah.
This prophecy (Isaiah ch.13) is against Babylon but the Commentators say that that it is also referring to the Last Days. Many people from Babylon went to Rome. Tradition identifies Rome with Babylon. Edom is also often considered synonymous with Babylon. Edom and Babylon are equated. The Nazis under Hitler had plans to re-create a future German Empire based on the image of Ancient Babylon. See our book, "Germany and Edom."
Many Ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews reached Europe via Rome after being taken captive. A lot of them married North Italian women after the ladies had converted to Judaism. Judaism requires male converts to get circumcised. At that time the prospect of circumcision was somewhat daunting so there were less male converts. In the time of the early Sages Judaism accepted many converts. Women especially were attracted to it. It was a window in time since shortly afterwards the Jews stopped welcoming conversions. There reasons for this. Nevertheless during that time period many conversions did take place. Brit-Am/Hebrew Awareness does not encourage people to convert to Judaism ythough there may be exceptions. On the whole we want descednants of the Lost Ten trbies know who they are and to help us (if they can) spread knowledge of this. According to DNA findings as recently published, The mtDNA (transmitted by females) of Ashkenazi Jews is about 40% or more from Northern Italy and southern France. There are numerous articles on this matter, e.g. https://www.science.org/content/article/did-modern-jews-originate-italy.
Judaism is traced through the mother. Once a person converts they are Jewish according to the Torah. A Kosher Jewish mother is a Jewish mother no matter where her parents came from. There is no going back. The predominance of North Italian elements in the mtDNA of Ashkenazi Jews is not agreed to by all but by most and there is probably something to it. On the other hand mtDNA is not stable and environmental influences may also be a factor as we have mentioned several times in the past.
Isaiah 13:2] LIFT YE UP A BANNER UPON THE HIGH MOUNTAIN, EXALT THE VOICE UNTO THEM, SHAKE THE HAND, THAT THEY MAY GO INTO THE GATES OF THE NOBLES (Hebrew "nedivim" i.e. "generous ones"). They who believe in God are the aristocracy of the human race. They are the real nobility!
Isaiah 13:3] I HAVE COMMANDED MY SANCTIFIED ONES, I HAVE ALSO CALLED MY MIGHTY ONES FOR MINE ANGER, EVEN THEM THAT REJOICE IN MY HIGHNESS.
Isaiah 13:4 THE NOISE OF A MULTITUDE IN THE MOUNTAINS, LIKE AS OF A GREAT PEOPLE; A TUMULTUOUS NOISE OF THE KINGDOMS OF NATIONS GATHERED TOGETHER: THE LORD OF HOSTS MUSTERETH THE HOST OF THE BATTLE.
Isaiah 13:5] THEY COME FROM A FAR COUNTRY, FROM THE END OF HEAVEN, EVEN THE LORD, AND THE WEAPONS OF HIS INDIGNATION, TO DESTROY THE WHOLE LAND.
Ecological disasters could result in the mass migration of Asiatic Peoples into Europe. This is already happening to some degree with people from Africa and Third World countries flooding into Europe.
Isaiah 13:6] HOWL YE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND; IT SHALL COME AS A DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY.
Isaiah 13:7] THEREFORE SHALL ALL HANDS BE FAINT, AND EVERY MAN'S HEART SHALL MELT:
Isaiah 13:8] AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID: PANGS AND SORROWS SHALL TAKE HOLD OF THEM; THEY SHALL BE IN PAIN AS A WOMAN THAT TRAVAILETH: THEY SHALL BE AMAZED ONE AT ANOTHER; THEIR FACES SHALL BE AS FLAMES.
Effects of biological warfare? Nuclear devastation?
Jeremiah 26 also speaks of this.
Isaiah 13:9] BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, CRUEL BOTH WITH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER, TO LAY THE LAND DESOLATE: AND HE SHALL DESTROY THE SINNERS THEREOF OUT OF IT.
Isaiah 13:10] FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN AND THE CONSTELLATIONS THEREOF SHALL NOT GIVE THEIR LIGHT: THE SUN SHALL BE DARKENED IN HIS GOING FORTH, AND THE MOON SHALL NOT CAUSE HER LIGHT TO SHINE.
Changes in the heavens? Effects in the atmosphere of nuclear disasters? Astronomical catastrophes.
Isaiah 13:11] AND I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD FOR THEIR EVIL, AND THE WICKED FOR THEIR INIQUITY; AND I WILL CAUSE THE ARROGANCY OF THE PROUD TO CEASE, AND WILL LAY LOW THE HAUGHTINESS OF THE TERRIBLE.
Isaiah speaks against sinners in general and against the proud. Pride is very damaging. Many Scriptures speak against pride. We are all proud. Some pride may be necessary for survival but on the whole it is a negative trait.
Isaiah 13:12] I WILL MAKE A MAN MORE PRECIOUS THAN FINE GOLD; EVEN A MAN THAN THE GOLDEN WEDGE OF OPHIR.
“OPHIR.” Some say Ophir is Peru. King Solomon took gold from “Ophir”. The name “Ophir” may be related to the term “Africa” and the original Ophir have been in South Africa. On the other hand a recent article of ours pointed out that "Africa" could also mean the British Isles and Western Europe. See: "Africa means Western Europe! The Lost Ten Tribes in Afriki." https://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/africa.html
An interesting point is that a lot of very precious gold objects have turned up in archaeological finds in Ireland, es[ecially from the Ancient Bronbze Age. There is an opinion among the experts that this gold is so plentiful that it must have come from Ireland. Wikipedia has an article about it. It is opined that the gold of Ireland may have come from Cornwall in England or from the East Coast of Ireland. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_gold
# In 2008 a major discovery was announced near Clontibret, estimated at 500,000 troy ounces (16,000 kg). The mining is run by Conroy Gold and Natural Resources and Anglo Asian Mining. Total resources could be as high as 20,000,000 troy ounces (620 t). #
Clontibret is in County Monaghan on the border with Northern Ireland.
All gold found in Ireland is legally the property of the Irish Government. Otherwise a lot more might well turn up. In my opinion they should allow at least 70% of what is found to go to the finder. Brit-Am/Hebrew Awareness is in need of extra funds. The People of Ireland could hire our advisory services for a modest sum. This might alleviate both our problems. [Half spoken in jest].
Isaiah 13:13] THEREFORE I WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS, AND THE EARTH SHALL REMOVE OUT OF HER PLACE, IN THE WRATH OF THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND IN THE DAY OF HIS FIERCE ANGER.
Isaiah 13:14] AND IT SHALL BE AS THE CHASED ROE, AND AS A SHEEP THAT NO MAN TAKETH UP: THEY SHALL EVERY MAN TURN TO HIS OWN PEOPLE, AND FLEE EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN LAND.
Repatriation? People going back to their ancestral roots? Immigrants returning to their homelands?
Isaiah 13:15] EVERY ONE THAT IS FOUND SHALL BE THRUST THROUGH; AND EVERY ONE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THEM SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD.
Isaiah 13:16] THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE DASHED TO PIECES BEFORE THEIR EYES; THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE SPOILED, AND THEIR WIVES RAVISHED.
Isaiah 13:17] BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES AGAINST THEM, WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD SILVER; AND AS FOR GOLD, THEY SHALL NOT DELIGHT IN IT.
Media was in northwest Iran. Many inhabitants of Iran may be descended from the Ancient Medes. The Medes are from Madai son of Japhet (Genesis 10:2) and the Persian Language is considered an Indo-European one. Iran however is often identified with Elam and Elam son of Shem (Genesis 10:22) may have contributed more to the Persian population. It has been claimed that the native language of most Ancient Persians was Elamite. It was mostly the ruling classes who used Persian. Cush from Ham was also important in Ancient Persia. An outpost of Cush in the past was often identified with the Iranian province of Khuzestan. This was "one of the centres of ancient civilization, and one of the most important regions of the Ancient Near East, based around Susa. The first large scale empire based here was that of the powerful 4th millennium BC Elamites." Susa is another name for Shushan the capital of ancient Persia in the Book of Esther. There may also be elements from Media among Baltic and Slavic peoples. The Lithuanian Language is said to be close to that of Ancient Media.
Isaiah 13:18] THEIR BOWS ALSO SHALL DASH THE YOUNG MEN TO PIECES; AND THEY SHALL HAVE NO PITY ON THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB; THEIR EYES SHALL NOT SPARE CHILDREN.
Isaiah 13:19] AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEES' EXCELLENCY, SHALL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
The Hebrew word translated here as "Chaldees" is "Kasdim."
Isaiah 13:20] IT SHALL NEVER BE INHABITED, NEITHER SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION: NEITHER SHALL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENT THERE; NEITHER SHALL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR FOLD THERE.
The original site of ancient Babylon is now desolate and deserted. The Arabs are afraid to pitch their tents in its vicinity. This is the way of prophecy. Events that occurred in the past are taken as prototypes of what will happen in the future.
Isaiah 13:21] BUT WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT SHALL LIE THERE; AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE FULL OF DOLEFUL CREATURES; AND OWLS SHALL DWELL THERE, AND SATYRS SHALL DANCE THERE.
Isaiah 13:22] AND THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLANDS SHALL CRY IN THEIR DESOLATE HOUSES, AND DRAGONS IN THEIR PLEASANT PALACES: AND HER TIME IS NEAR TO COME, AND HER DAYS SHALL NOT BE PROLONGED.
Here is an alternate translation of the last 2 verses:
Isaiah (CTC) 13:
21 AND MARTENS (weasels) SHALL DWELL THERE, AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE FILLED WITH FERRETS, AND OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL THERE, AND SATYRS SHALL DANCE THERE.
SATYRS. In Hebrew "Sair," plural "Sairim." The word "sair" also means hair. The word connotes some type of demonic ghostly hairy creature.
22 AND CATS SHALL DWELL IN HIS PALACES, AND SERPENTS IN THE TEMPLES OF PLEASURE, AND HER TIME IS SOON COMING, AND HER DAYS SHALL NOT BE EXTENDED.
We are returning to our ongoing overview on Scripture. We are giving a brief explanation on salient points but do not want to over duly discuss details. Our main emphasis is intended to be that which directly concerns the Lost Ten Tribes.