What is Isaiah 24 describing?
Isaiah 24 is a graphic description of the Tribulation—the final seven years of human history—when the Lord makes the earth empty and waste, turns it upside down, scatters its inhabitants, and brings everyone, from priest to people and master to servant, under cataclysmic judgments.
Les explains that Isaiah 24 is a graphic description of the Tribulation, which he has been studying for weeks. He points out the cataclysmic events coming upon the planet during those final seven years of human history. The Lord makes the earth empty, waste, and turns it upside down; He scatters the inhabitants. The passage goes on to show that all social and economic distinctions collapse: as with the people, so with the priest; servant and master; maid and mistress; buyer and seller; lender and borrower; taker of usury and giver. Everyone comes under this seven-year period. Verse 3 says the land is utterly emptied and spoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. Verse 4 says the earth mourns and fades away under these judgments. Les also indicates that in Isaiah 24 he is picking up the Gentiles, after noting God has not forgotten the Gentiles even during the Tribulation, preparing some to enter the Kingdom in ordinary flesh and blood bodies.
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.