THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IN IASIAH

I BEHELD THE EARTH. Jer. 4:23 What an awesome sight lay before him. The earth once again in complete chaos. Without form, Hebrew, tohuw, to lie waste, a desolation (of surface). Confusion, empty place. Void, bohuw, means, to be empty, indistinguishable. This is the same wording
that is used in Gen. 1:2 No one could live through such a wholesale destruction and find their way into the Millennial age. There will be no sinners in the thousand years of rest. Isaiah confirms this horrific judgment. Even adding to it by declaring that the earth will be turned upside down. At the same time it will be emptied of inhabitants and devastated. Isa. 24:1 None will escape, one judgment alike to all. v.2 The land shall be completely emptied and utterly spoiled. This is truly a, 
thus saith the Lord. He has spoken it and it will be absolutely accomplished. v.3 The prospective for this earth is exceedingly bleak. It will mourn or dry up, it will languish or wilt. This seems to coincide somewhat with the environmentalist are saying about our earth. Man has destroyed and
continues to do so of much of the beauty and worth of our planet. But the ultimate judgment will come from the Lord. He has reserved that for Himself. The haughtiness, the pride of man will cause him to be destroyed at the same time. v.4 The cause for all this is again mankind. Man has defiled the earth, environmentally but far more than that, by corrupt living and utter wickedness. They live in direct disobedience to the laws of God. As base as things are today, by the time Jesus comes the earth and its inhabitants will be utterly given over to ungodliness. They violate the statutes or the ordinances of the Lord. They have disregard the everlasting covenant of salvation and in general have spurned the living God. v.5 We must understand that the world will be utterly corrupted at the time of the coming of Christ and therefore deserves the judgment that is given. This is a condition that will exist during the tribulation period. Jesus will come the Second Time in great judgment because the iniquity of man will have reached its climax. The tribulation period is a time of excessive godlessness and the fullness of iniquity. Because of the extreme sinfulness that characterizes this time, a curse is upon the earth and its inhabitants. Those living in that day must bear the consequences of this blatant and rebellious iniquity. Earth dwellers will be burned. Those 
left are they who are caught up and out of the blast of the Lord against sin. v. 6 The theme of utter destruction is taken up again as Isaiah proclaimed that the earth would be broken up, split asunder and completely shaken. v.19 The earth to reel like a drunkard, certainly out of orbit, shaken and 
swayed like a hut in the wind. The guilt of its transgression is so great that it  will never rise again. The prophets spoke in no uncertain tones of the end of the earth as it now is. The second coming of Christ is not a casual happening. There will be tremendous changes that take place. The earth 
of the Millennium will not be like the one that now exists.