our Father, which means ignorance of His Word, and to be in a state of 'confusion', 'babel' or Babylon. When is this 'day of the LORD'?  We just covered it in the last Study of Isaiah being the time of Christ's return and the setting up of His Kingdom upon earth. So this verse definitely points to a future event, and not to Cyrus' time at all. Where's this destruction coming from then? This verse is also giving us that; it comes from THE ALMIGHTY.
      It's interesting to note at this point that the phrase 'the day of the LORD is at hand' was used repeatedly by the ill woman Margaret McDonald in Scotland in 1830 while upon her deathbed, who was claiming visions from our Father. I doubt she intended the stir and future doctrine that certain ones would create out of it. Some of the religious heads of the day gathered around her and started proclaiming the 'Any Moment' doctrine, and the first false ideas of being 'raptured' away before the first tribulation of Satan began. This Margaret McDonald, who held a pre-tribulation deliverance view before her revelation, began to speak in an 'unknown tongue', even though there is no such thing as an 'unknown tongue' in God's Word.² There in; Acts 2: (...and they were filled with the Holy Ghost.)

 

 The 'tongue' which the Apostles spoke on Pentecost Day, was understood by all the peoples of the different nations in the crowd, even in the dialect from which they were born. This 'unknown tongue' which many speak today, is 'babel'. You well know the meaning of that word 'babel' by now, as it means 'confusion', and that's what that tongue is. This is why most who speak that 'unknown tongue' today are also caught up in the false doctrine of pre-tribulation "secret rapture" before Satan comes as Antichrist, because both of those deceptions were widely presented together there in Scotland after that ill woman's hallucinations. There's not much record of the so-called "secret rapture" doctrine in Christian writing before that time of 1830.³  Do you think God is trying to tell those caught up in that doctrine a lesson here in Isaiah 13, with the idea of babel and Babylon, i.e., confusion?

Isa 13:7   Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

     This phrase 'all hands be faint' just means that man's mortal arms and hands will droop down at the sides of the body, in weakness, or really powerless, at the coming of our Lord and Saviour. Their hearts will be full of shame at Christ's coming. Why?  Because those non-believers of the earth refused Yeshu'a Jesus Christ, and those 'five foolish virgins' are in bed with the Antichrist, as they will believe on the fake 'morning star' Lucifer and they will have thought he was the True Messiah, so they've already been gathered or 'harvested', but out of season.
     This idea of a false messiah coming first before Jesus does also give us the true meaning of the Greek word 'antichristos' which is translated in the KJV to 'antichrist'. That Greek word 'anti' means 'in place of, or instead of', not against; which most are so taught. So Greek 'anti' and 'Christos’ put together actually means the 'instead of Christ' (Strong's no.500; 473; 5547).

 

Isa 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.

     This verse is pointing to the analogy of being 'with child' when The Bridegroom (Christ) returns. As stated before, these who have these 'birthing pangs' are those who have jumped into bed with the wrong messiah, i.e., Satan, who comes to earth first.
     If you think this analogy is too strong for virgin ears, then you're missing one of the most important Messages from God to us living at this time today. The whole problem throughout this flesh age is how Israel (both houses) has turned away from God, and gone a 'whoring' after idols representing Satan's false kingdom upon earth, Babylon. God uses this analogy very strongly even with His prophet Hosea, as He told him to take a prostitute for wife in order to symbolize the 'harlotry' by His People turning away from Him.

 

 Hosea 1-5 Hosea was a prophet to the Ten Tribes (or Northern Kingdom), but he had warnings for Judah also, as well as promises of future blessings.  2: The beginning of the word of the Lord by