I am currently going through the book of Isaiah, gleaning from it what I can. One thing that I have continually noticed was this idea that the God of the Old Testament is different than the God of the New Testament. We tribute God with Holiness, Sacrificial, Righteousness and Judgement. He is the God of punishment. That is until Jesus arrives. But what I am finding in Isaiah is that He continually shows mercy and grace to people. He watches out for every individual who seeks after Him.

So I am getting to that point where Isaiah is prophicing about the end time. “In that day the Lord will punish the fallen angels in the heavens and the proud rulers of the nations on earth.” “Woo Hoo!” I shouted. That was until I was reading my commentary which does not view some of these prophicies as the “end time” but states that most of these had taken place much earlier.

Here is what was said for this verse.

“There is a rabbinical saying, to the effect that ‘God never destroys a nation without having first of all destroyed its prince…’ Just as, according to the scriptural view, both good and evil angels attach themselves to particular men, and an elevated state of mind may sometimes afford a glimpse of this encircling company and this conflict of spirits; so do angels contend for the rule over nations and kingdoms, either to guide them in the way of God or to lead them astray from God; and therefore the judgment upon the nations which the prophet here foretells will be a judgment upon angels also. The kingdom of spirits has its own history running parallel to the destinies of men.”

Compare this with Ephesians 6:12.