Today, I am reading and commenting on Isaiah 22-25.

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Isaiah spoke of all of the preparations the people of Jerusalem made to defend against the siege they saw coming.  Then he condemns them for having the foresight to make these preparations but not once turning to God.  He tells them that God had called them to weep and mourn, but instead of doing so they had chosen to feast and party.  I take this to heart to some degree.  I am facing a serious problem that will take God’s intervention.  Have I failed to sufficiently mourn my circumstances?  Have I failed to follow God’s desire that I weep for my state?  I have prayed to God about my circumstances, but should I have done more?  I will strive to turn further towards God and reduce the time I spend on distractions.

In today’s passage, Isaiah prophesies that Tyre will be laid ruin for seventy years.  I am not sure why I never noticed it before, but I noticed that there are multiple prophecies which speak of something going on for seventy years.  I know that in the Book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah prophesied that the Babylonian Exile would last for seventy years.  Throughout the Bible the number seventy is used to indicate that something is complete.  So, Isaiah’s prophecy here that Tyre would remain desolate for seventy years was not meant as a literal seventy years but rather as an indication that it would remain desolate until its time of desolation was complete.  I am not going to do more to interpret this prophecy, because I am not sure that is the point we should take from them.  Instead I just want to bring up the point that when the number seventy appears in the Bible the indication of completeness or fullness carries more significance than the actual number.  A couple of examples of this: In Genesis we are told that the number of Jacob’s family who settled in Egypt was seventy.  This does not mean that the count was seventy (although it may have been), rather it indicates that it was an entire, a complete, people who settled in Egypt for a time.  When Jesus sent out seventy disciples it represented the complete number of the nations of the earth.  In this case, I do believe it was actually seventy whom Jesus sent out, but I think He chose that number for its symbolism.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.