Isa 28:20     For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

     Recall back to verse 15 where many make a 'covenant with death' and their 'refuge' is in lies and falsehoods. That's a false covering of protection, and is definitely not our Lord's Covering of His Word with understanding. So our Lord is giving an analogy here with a short bed and a short blanket being symbolic of the false covering in refuge of lies. Have you ever had to sleep on a short couch, or in a small child's bed as an adult? You're feet probably stuck out a foot over the edge, and a child's blanket wouldn't even give enough cover over a grown-up's body. That's what the pact with death and refuge in lies has to offer. That's not much comfort friends. Actually, it would be indecent exposure for some today. Again, how does that sad state come about upon some of God's People? Simply by not staying in His Word line upon line, and never getting around to real Bible study with 'understanding', but playing religion instead. Stay with The True Covering of our Heavenly Father's Word Jesus Christ, disciplining yourself in Bible study (see the Bible Resources page for more help). That way you won't be 'ashamed'.

Isa 28:21    For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act."

     This "Perazim" refers to "Baalperazim", an area of the Philistines which GOD delivered into David's hand; and "Gibeon" was a place of defeat for the Amorites through Joshua, by GOD's Hand.

 

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Our LORD even cast down "great stones from heaven" to defeat them:

Josh 10:10     And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
11    And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

     Therefore, this Isaiah 28:21 verse is given as a comparison to those historical events in Baalperazim and Gibeon, but; this Isaiah 28:21 verse is yet future to us even. It is a prophecy of the time of our LORD's return with the battles of Armageddon and Hamongog, when the great hailstones of...

 

 Revelation 16:21. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: ans men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

 

Ezekiel 38:22, And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

 

 Will occur, that will be God's wrath upon the wicked. It is not upon those who love our Lord Jesus who also stay on Him, and are not deceived into false worship. God's wrath is not upon His People who love Him through His Son, and who wait for Him.
     What does this "Baalperazim" mean? It means 'lord of the breaks' (Strong's 1188; BDB definition). It refers to the breaking forth of God's judgment in wrath against... the false ones of