Isa 13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
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.
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.
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.
The "day of the LORD" is when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ returns on His Second Advent as Messiah. That's when the final Babylon false one-world kingdom of Satan will finally be defeated upon this old earth. Paul the apostle would refer to events taking place on this future 'day of the LORD' in...
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It certainly is an analogy to the birth of a new age, but look closely at verse 8 with the phrase "their faces shall be as flames". That's symbolic of shame upon their faces when this day of the LORD happens. But who will experience that kind of shame when our Lord returns? Who's this 'travail' upon? Not so fast... let's build up to the answer for that question.
Isa 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Now the idea of giving birth to a 'child' is added to this analogy. The coming future age of Christ's return being like birth cramps, or 'pangs' is a simple enough analogy to a time of trouble, such as tribulation. But the next step... actually giving birth to a child; well that extends this analogy to a deeper level doesn't it? What's our Father trying to tell us with the 'child' symbol in all this?
These particular verses from Isaiah 26 are about the 'house of Judah' declaring themselves having been 'with child', past tense, and Christ having returned at that point (rightly divide God's Word as to its timelines). Who else is this a Message to from our Father's Word?
Here are only some of the references from God's Word of whom this travailing 'with child' is upon. Here in Isaiah 21 and back in Isaiah 13 Babylon has the birth 'pangs'. In Isaiah 26, Jer.6, and Micah 4 Judah and Jerusalem suffer these 'pangs'. In Jer.30 the 'pangs' are upon both 'Israel' (house of Israel, i.e. the Ten Lost Tribes - now the Western Christian Nations), and 'Judah' (house of Judah). In Jeremiah 48, Moab suffers the woman's birth 'pangs'. In Jeremiah 49 Edom (Esau) suffers the birth 'pangs' of travailing. Ephraim (leader of the 'house of Israel' today) in Hosea 13 suffers these 'pangs' of a 'travailing woman'. In Jer.50:43 the 'king of Babylon' actually suffers the birth 'pangs' himself. Satan is the final king of Babylon for our future.
These examples cover most all nations upon the earth today. And each example is about past historical events of God's wrath upon various peoples, including His chosen People. They are also a type or blueprint for the tribulation time of Satan for today also! The analogy of being 'with child' is about spiritual adultery, playing the spiritual harlot, with a false messiah (antichrist, Satan) of our future. Historically in The Old Testament times, their 'with child' experience was still of Lucifer; remember the peoples falling away from God, and turning to those with 'familiar spirits', to the 'wizards', to the 'charmers', and to 'idols'? (Isa.19:3 in Egypt's case only, but all nations guilty also). So then, is everyone destined to experience this 'travailing with child', staying deceived and worshipping the 'another Jesus' (2 Cor.11) instead of waiting for our True
