Isaiah 34 A running Commentary Point 5

VERSES 1-8 CONTINUED

Here then, is the manifesto published, setting forth, seven points to consider.

Point Five

This great slaughter will be a great sacrifice to the justice of God 

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,

    it is covered with fat—

the blood of lambs and goats,

    fat from the kidneys of rams.

For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah

    and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

The Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah; there it is that the great Redeemer has his garments dyed with blood. Isaiah 63:1, God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption, "Who is this coming from Edom,

    from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor,

    striding forward in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.”

Bozrah? Bozrah is in the mountain district of Petra. Petra? Is the place where Moses struck his staff on a rock and the water of life sprang forth for God's people. I've told people. Several people. Satan himself told me that "Petra" was a trigger word for him. No wonder.

Sacrifices were intended for the honour of God. To show that he hates sin and demands satisfaction for it, and that nothing but blood will make atonement for it. It is to these ends this slaughter is made. That in it the wrath of God it may be revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. Especially their ungodly unrighteous hostility toward his people, which was the sin that the Edomites were notoriously guilty of. 

In great sacrifices abundance of beasts were killed,  an extensive loss of life offered, and their blood poured out before the altar. And so will it be in this day of the Lord’s vengeance. And thus would the whole earth have been soaked with the blood of sinners if Jesus Christ, the great atonement, had not shed his blood for us. But those who reject him, and will not make a covenant with God by that sacrifice, will themselves fall as victims to divine wrath. Damned sinners are everlasting sacrifices, Mark. 9:48-49, "where‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’Everyone will be salted with fire.Those that sacrifice not, which is the character of the ungodly, must be sacrificed. 

Ecclesiastes 9:2

"All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good,

    so with the sinful;

as it is with those who take oaths,

    so with those who are afraid to take them."