Be ‘able to withstand’ in what ‘evil day’? ‘In that hour’ of temptation, when delivered up to the synagogue, to allow testimony by the Holy Spirit speaking through the elect against Satan, that’s the ‘evil day’, howbeit, more evil for Satan since the Word will dispel all of his lies and convert many to the Truth. This is a particular time, and has not happened yet. It will happen in our time, for we are living in the last generation on earth. Matthew 24: Mark 13: Luke 21:

About that generation, the generation of the fig tree. I also have two studies on the 'parable of the fig tree' in my Archives).

Eph.6:14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

     Now we know what the ‘girdle of their loins’ in Isaiah 5:27 was, a ‘girding’ of God’s Truth. This act of 'girding' is what the soldier did in preparing for battle by bringing the belt up and securing their garment for running. The ‘breastplate of righteousness’ is symbolic of the Hebrew priest, which God’s elect are in the spiritual sense.

Eph.6:15  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

     Note this says ‘with the preparation of the Gospel of peace’? That means knowing what God’s Word says, understanding the Plan. That’s what gives true ‘peace’, and is also the ‘armour of God’. This is the ‘latchet of their shoes’ back in Isa. 5:27 that will not be broken.

Eph.6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

     If there is no faith, there is no Holy Spirit. They both go hand in hand. God’s Armour is manifested by His Holy Spirit; the power to battle against Satan doesn’t come from us, but from the power of The Lord. As a servant of The Lord, having faith, means relying on Him, and not man.

Eph.6:17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

     This is the weapon of the elect, the Word of God. We could say that 'salvation' is the 'chin strap' holding the 'helmet' on. Anything else won’t cut it. Those who battle Satan with the sword of men, i.e., guns, etc., will perish.

Only with God’s ‘two-edged sword’ that ‘cuts both ways,’ will we obtain victory. That ‘Sword’ is Jesus Christ, and He is the Hope of our salvation by believing on Him. Now back to Isaiah:

Isa 5:30   And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof."

     To ‘look unto the land’, are those who seek refuge at that time to other things instead of God. These are six woes, which is also the number of Satan, who comes on the sixth seal, the sixth trumpet, the sixth vial, = 666. Many teach that this ‘man’, who is the number 666, is a human Antichrist that will be born of woman. Not so, for even God calls Satan ‘a man’ in Ezekiel 28. The name Gabriel in the Hebrew means ‘man of God’, and Gabriel is referred to as a man in.

 Daniel 9:21: Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

 Flesh man was made in the image of God. We have the image of God, so we favour Him in likeness as do the angels. The ‘antichrist’; which is another name representing Satan, will not be born of woman, for it is written nowhere in God’s Word. The word 'man' there refers to the 'antichrist' in Rev.13:18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number Six hundred threescore and six.

This is part of the word that has caused many interpretations to stray.

Rev 6:12-17: Sixth Seal.

Rev 9:13-21: Sixth Trumpet.     The dragon.