Who will be affected by the Tribulation judgments in Isaiah 24:2?
Isaiah 24:2 declares that the Tribulation judgments fall on every social and economic class alike: people and priest, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, taker of usury and giver. The passage emphasizes universal impact—no group escapes the cataclysmic seven-year period.
Les explains that Isaiah 24 is a graphic description of the Tribulation, the final seven years of human history. After verse 1 says the Lord makes the earth empty, waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants, verse 2 lists pairs: people and priest, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, taker of usury and giver. Les stresses that everyone will come under this tremendous cataclysmic seven-year period. Verse 3 adds the land will be utterly emptied and spoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word, and verse 4 says the earth mourns and fades under these judgments. The context identifies these Gentiles as being picked up in Isaiah 24.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.