Isaiah the key to Daniel and Revelation

Well, I have to confess, it appears I made a mistake when I was writing The Spirit of Prophecy!

No, not a theological mistake, not even an interpretation error, but a formatting error. You see I was building a case, in chapter 8, and I put the most important passage at the end of the chapter. This was a mistake.

This last weekend I was talking with my mother, who has been reading The Spirit of Prophecy, and she confronted me over the subject of chapter 8. She claimed to have read the chapter, but as I questioned her it appeared that she had no idea of the significance of Isaiah 4, in relation to End Times prophecy. My only conclusion is that she became indignant with the rest of the chapter, and put it down before getting to the most important part!

I must take full responsibility for not starting with Isaiah 3-4, and then building my case based on that passage. The next time I update the manuscript I will be sure to modify the introduction to Chapter 8, to clearly point to this passage, because it is the key passage to understanding Daniel 11:37. It may take some time until I am able to do that, so here is a brief introduction to the subject of Chapter 8 based on Isaiah 3-4;

It is commonly said that the book of Revelation is a companion to the book of Daniel. This is true, but in fact, if you only study these two books, in relation to the End Times events, you will end up with more questions than answers. There are more than 500 Old Testament references in the book of Revelation and only some of them refer to Daniel. A complete study of that book must include many references to Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Zechariah, Zephaniah, Joel, and others, as well as the Psalms, and even the Law of Moses!

Indeed, just as every book of the Old Testament has prophetic implications for the first coming of Christ, they all must be consulted in order to get a proper view of His second coming! This is not a subject for the faint of heart!

I’m going to narrow down this study to Isaiah 3-4 as well as the passages that are directly related to it.

Isaiah 3:1-23 is an indictment against ancient Israel. It is speaking about their sin and God’s judgment of it, leading to their captivity and exile. One thing that I have discovered (and not me alone) is that the sins that led to Israel’s exile, will still be continuing as they return to the land! Somewhere in this passage there is a shift in emphasis from the ancient times to the modern day Israel. The fulfilment of these verses is still future!


Sarit Hadad is one of my favorite artists.  She is extremely talented, but I find I usually can’t watch her live videos. There is too much sensuality displayed on stage, and it is not usually her, but the dancers she surrounds herself with. The following youtube video is a good example. (usually I convert her music to mp3s and listen as I drive)

or here

As I have noted elsewhere, there are two major defeats of Islam coming in the near future. These are the Psalm 83 war, and the Ezekiel 38-39 invasion of Israel.

Somewhere around 900 A.D. the exiled Israelite tribes living in Afghanistan and Pakistan, converted to Islam. I expect that there are others in other Muslim nations, though I can’t point to any particular group that fits this pattern. These people are actually a fulfilment of prophecy themselves:


One man told me that he thought that these tribes were cut off from Israel, and no longer recipients of God’s promises. I disagree. These tribes will one day return to Israel and will throw off the yoke of Islam, that has kept them in a straight jacket for some 1,100 years. Once they return to Israel the world will see them go wild, and the videos of Sarit Hadad will appear tame in comparison.

The time I am referring to is the time Isaiah wrote about in Isaiah 3, but the story does not end in verse 23. This indictment results in judgment from God. The passage is full of cause-and-effect examples. Verses 24-26 describe the result of Israel’s sin; they will be involved in a huge war.


Was this an ancient war, or is it a coming war? Yes! While this passage had a partial fulfilment during the Assyrian, and Babylonian, captivities of Israel there is yet a future war that will bring a complete fulfilment of this passage. How do I know?

As I said there is a cause-and-effect-relationship displayed here. The sins displayed in Isaiah 3:1-23 will result in the Tribulation and Armageddon, mentioned here in verses 24-26. Note that the men of Israel are going to die in this war. When the Antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, there will be a variety of reactions in Israel.

The believers in Jesus Christ will heed his warnings, from Matthew 24, and flee to the wilderness. The unbelievers, those who trust in themselves and the force of arms, will pick up arms to fight the Antichrist. These people, mostly men, will die fighting the Antichrist. It is not possible for him to be defeated by the force of arms. While their motivation is to protect the Temple, God does not need them to fight for Him, He wants them to obey Him!


The survivors of this war are spoken of in Isaiah 4:1. This verse is the key to Daniel 11:37, and shows why professing Christians will support the Antichrist!


These women and men are the survivors of Armageddon. This event is a direct result of Armageddon and occurs after it is over, and Jesus is setting up His reign on the earth. Notice that they are not asking for illicit affairs, but for marriage. This is what it means when they say “only let us be called by thy name”. You take your husband’s name when you marry him.

The “reproach” they mention is the same reproach Rachel spoke of in Genesis 30:23, and by Elizabeth in Luke 1:25. In both cases the reproach is the inability to have children. These women of Isaiah 4:1 won’t have the ability to have children because with Jesus ruling the world, illicit affairs will be dealt with swiftly and harshly. Not only this but these women, and men, will be 100% believers, and will not want affairs, but will want the benefits of marriage.  The problem for them is there won’t be enough men to go around!

There is no way these holy women will approach men this way without having the permission of Jesus Christ first!

Before we move on, please note that while the passage is specifically speaking of Israel there are implications for the entire human race. Not only will the majority of the men of Israel die during Armageddon, the situation will be the same for the Gentile nations who send their armies to fight Jesus at His return. Every person who picks up arms to fight Jesus at his return will die, and since most armies are mainly male in gender, there will be a shortage of men throughout the whole world.


God does not primarily mean that men will be pure like gold, but rather He will make them rare, the way gold is rare in relation to iron.

So, how do I know that this passage is referring to the return of Christ? Look at the next verse;


Who is the “branch of the Lord”? This is none other than Jesus Christ. Furthermore this can’t refer to his first coming for the same author says of that time “he had no beauty that we should desire him”. (Isaiah 53:2) Yet Jesus has always been beautiful in Heaven. This can only refer to His return!


These people will be called “holy”, yet today Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have their Gay pride marches.  It can’t refer to today or to any time from that day until the present.

This refers to everyone who escapes the wrath of God, at Armageddon. These daughters of Zion who have had their filth washed away, are the same women spoken of in verse 1. Some of them will be the same women spoken of in chapter 3, who were prancing around, and flaunting their sexuality. Something has happened to change their minds!

What has happened to them is the Tribulation period, the 144,000 witnesses, and Armageddon. These people are the ones who will repopulate the earth during the millennial reign of Jesus Christ. As I mentioned before, the Gentiles will find themselves in the same situation. Their men will die at Armageddon, and there will be many more female survivors than male.

Why would God do this? Why would he set up this generation to live in families of one man/seven women? For one thing, these people will have children in a 50/50 ratio of boys to girls. After this generation there will be no need for polygamy throughout the earth. These people will grow very old, and some of them, perhaps even the majority, will actually live throughout the entire millennial reign of Christ! (1,000 years!)

These people will be eye witnesses of the events of the Tribulation and Armageddon. They will be able to tell their descendants of the events they have seen for many generations. The fact that they are in families of such an unusual makeup, will cause their descendants to ask questions. They will have ample opportunity to witness to both the power of God and to his salvation. Thus, at the end of the millennium, when there is one final rebellion against the rule of Jesus Christ. The rebels will have no excuse for they will have heard the story of Armageddon from people who were there!


Here in the closing verses of Isaiah 4 we see more references to events that are yet to happen, and will not happen until Jesus reigns on the earth. Again confirming that this chapter is totally related to the millennial reign.

So how does this passage relate to the person of the Antichrist? Daniel tells us;


The king here is the Antichrist. Notice that he does not regard, or care about, the God of his fathers. This is a monotheistic God, probably the Allah of the Qur’an. Notice the next phrase: “Neither shall he regard… the desire of women”. Some have said that this is “the god that women desire”. This is incorrect. What god is desired by women? This is a direct reference to the desire of women as articulated by the women in Isaiah 4:1, and is also related to the way women are treated by the followers of the God of his fathers.

Islam has always allowed polygamy. During the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s there were a million men killed, and yet you don’t hear of large numbers of widows in those nations. Their religion allows them to double up on their men. There is a lot wrong with Islam, but the fact that it allows polygamy is not one of them. The subjugation of women is a problem, for the bible tells us that the soul of a woman is of equal value to God (Romans 10:12). God allows polygamy because of His love for women, and because he wants to fill the earth with people.


The Antichrist will be an official over the nations destroyed after the Gog and Magog war. Those nations have always allowed polygamy, and when one of six soldiers returns after that war it will be natural for the survivors to expect one man to be allowed to marry several woman. This is when the Antichrist will prohibit polygamy. By doing so he will endear himself to western Christianity!  Christians will support the Antichrist because they have believed “Christian” tradition, rather than studying, and believing, the Word of God!


During the millennial reign, God will restore the Garden of Eden conditions on this planet, and its population will blossom like never before. The contrast between the reigns of Jesus Christ and the Antichrist is there in Scripture, but is hidden from those who refuse to believe!

Now that you know the biblical basis for Chapter 8 of The Spirit of Prophecy you can go and read it with a greater understanding. We go back to the Law of Moses and show that Jesus never contradicted anything in the Law. We study the life of David and discover that his view of morality was the same as Jesus’.  You will see that everything I have said here is found in the bible, and there is so much more evidence that these things are true.

David was indeed a “man after God’s own heart”.  God was telling us something very important by focusing so heavily on David.

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2 Responses to Isaiah the key to Daniel and Revelation

  1. M. Guenther says:

    Hi Dan,
    a very eye-opening article. Thank you for sharing these ideas with a broader audience. What immediately came to my mind after I’ve read this, is that it may relate very well to the theory of the german sociologist Gunnar Heinsohn. Based on that theory I would deductively (abductively) come to the following conclusions : a) young men get heavily distressed if they face a lot of competition and have not much opportunity to find a good wife and a good job. b) Young men who get heavily distressed tend to become angry and aggressive (role of testosterone, even in peaceful societies 90% or so of violent crime is done by men, not by women) c) the distress-aggression (d-a) increases with improvements in education of men, because this leads to higher expectations. d) The d-a increases further by improving education of women (of course I’m not against education of women at all). But before birth control would show any effects, women’s education would increase d-a of young men heavily by 1. increase the expectations of young women in their prospect husband (make them more picky), 2. Withdrawing young women from the “marriage market” and 3. Educated women would compete with men for jobs, which makes it additionally harder for the young men to accomplish something in life. To make things even more explosive we have to put the following three principles into the equation: A) Angry young men tend to get instrumentalised by older guys with bad intentions, who even increase the d-a potential by implanting mysoginistic thoughts in their minds and keeping the young men away from meeting women. Which leads to kind of military or paramilitary organisations that could be used to exert structural violence. B) Women always have relatively high demands in their prospect husband (high social skills, status in their peer group, ambitions; NOT necessarily money or a big car, huge misogynistic misconception which false teachers teach to manipulate the young guys to act according their own agenda). However, in a group of ten girls eight of them would probably be interested in the same one or two boys and would tend to discard the other eight to nine guys. Most men are less picky than women. You see the point, a lot of d-a for the boys who do not get so much attention or would even get pushed away by the girls in their peer group. C) The smart guys in the leading industrialised countries know the rules of the “game” and know it would not be in their interest to be confronted with a “youth bulge” of 1 Billion angry young men of Non-Western-States around the world. Very angry young men are considered to be terrorists, and USA/NATO/EU is engaged in war against terrorism, aren’t we.

    But of course we (USA/NATO/EU) are the good ones who would never ever do something evil as genocide. We just fight against terrorism. Unfortunately their are so many terrorists, but because they are terrorists it is not our fault if the get killed, it’s of course their fault. Sorry for being sarcastic, it’s not against you, it’s against the lies and hypocrasy in politics/ media.
    (see also I don’t like the CFR, but it’s interesting that they have picked up this topic.

    However, at the beginning of the millenium the man to woman ratio of 1:7 or so would be extremely favorably for peace. But at end of the millenium the rate again would tend towards 1:1. Men may not have much unmet materialistic needs during this time but each of them still would have the desire for greatness, to be something special in comparison to other men (see cain and abel), they would feel increasingly urged to go for that kind of greatness. Each man will not have seven wifes anymore but “only” one. The spare time would allow them to start again “making plans”, this time against God and Israel.

    Just my 2 Cents. What do you think about this?

    Best regards from Germany


  2. dknezacek says:

    Hi Mat,

    Thanks for reading, and for your thoughts on the subject.

    While I would agree with you that hormonal factors do play a part, I think a larger factor is the spiritual condition.

    With the first generation of the millennium having had the experience of living under the Antichrist, Armageddon, and then seeing Jesus return, and seeing what He does to the unbelievers, that generation will be totally devoted to Jesus. 100%!

    Like the descendants of Noah’s family, however, the children of the millennial generation will grow up in a perfect world, and will soon forget the lessons their parents learned. The first generation of children will likely see some of the ruins, and maybe a few skeletons lying around, however it won’t be long until the cities will be rebuilt, and the earth will experience Garden of Eden-like conditions.

    The rebellion at the end of the millennial reign is because Satan is released for a short time. While we could look at it from a human perspective, we also ought to look at it from a spiritual perspective as well. The final rebellion will not occur until Satan’s influence is felt again.

    While many of those born during the Millennial reign will not be saved, their sin will not bubble to the surface because of the conditions they live under, including Jesus’ rod of iron. In this sense Satan is actually a tool of God; his influence causes lost humanity to rebel again, in spite of the perfect conditions they live under. Satan’s influence creates a wider gap between the sheep and the goats.

    As for the male-female ratio, I think it will quickly return to 50:50 during the first generation born during the reign of Christ. At the same time, marriage is for life, and the families of one man and seven women will exist throughout most, if not all, of the millennial reign. Their marriages will stand out as a witness of the power of God to their descendants.

    Thanks again for your thoughts, it is readers, and thinkers, like you who make my life interesting.


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