Isaiah 10 · Scofield
that when A permanent method in the divine government of the earth. Israel is always the centre of the divine counsels earthward Deuteronomy 32:8 . The Gentile nations are permitted to afflict Israel in chastisement for her national sins, but invariably and inevitably retribution falls upon them. See ; Genesis 15:13,14 ; Deuteronomy 30:5-7 ; Isaiah 14:1,2 ; Joel 3:1-8 ; Micah 5:7-9 ; Matthew 25:31-40 .
that day "That day": often the equivalent of "the day of the Lord" Isaiah 2:10-22 ; Revelation 19:11-21 . The prophecy here passes from the general to the particular, from historic and fulfilled judgments upon Assyria to the final destruction of all Gentile world-power at the return of the Lord in glory. (See "Armageddon," ; Revelation 16:14 ; 19:21 "Times of the Gentiles," ; Luke 21:24 ; Revelation 16:19, "The great tribulation," ; Psalms 2:5 ; Revelation 7:14, and (See Scofield " Isaiah 13:19 ")