Isa. 66:19

19 And I will set [suwm] a sign ['owth] among them, and I will send [shalach] those that escape [paliyt] of them unto the nations [gowy], to Tarshish [Tarshiysh], Pul [Puwl], and Lud [Luwd], that draw [mashak] the bow [qesheth], to Tubal [Tuwbal], and Javan [Yavan], to the isles ['iy] afar off [rachowq], that have not heard [shama`] my fame [shema`], neither have seen [ra'ah] my glory [kabowd]; and they shall declare [nagad] my glory [kabowd] among the Gentiles [gowy]. KJV-Interlinear

19 And I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations. NASB

In these last few chapters of Isaiah, he has listed the promises and prayers to God, that the remnant of the Tribulation will rely on to get them through their trying time.

We have already seen that those who pursue God and their spiritual life, become the recipients of blessings. Those who reject God, ignore God, try to modify Gods principles for their own purposes, will become the recipients of cursing.

Just so there is no mistake, Isaiah now describes the no excuse principle of life.

In history, if a people has never heard of God, then they can t really be held responsible for their actions in life. For example, a child who is simply too young to understand life, when he dies, he is automatically saved. We studied this in the study of David, when he lost his first son.

God promises a sign and a message to the rest of the world. Isaiah refers to the four directions on the compass relative to Jerusalem. Tarshish is a reference to the west, Put to the south, Meshech and Tubal to the north and east, Javan to he north. The distant islands, is a reference to lands far, far away, or everywhere else across the planet.

Gods glory is revealed around the entire world. And the world knows of God, knows of Christ, and knows of the scriptures. The world has no excuse.

Remember, when we studied the opening round of the Armageddon war, how the powers to the North and South, knew of the prophecies concerning themselves, but ignored them. Those prophecies spoke of their plans, spoke of their movements and methods of attack, of the double-cross that the Northern Power would play on the Southern Power, and the inevitable destruction of the Northern power.

Those nations knew of the prophecies, but ignored them. They thought that they could outsmart the prophecies, as though knowing of an outcome in advance would give them an edge. The wisdom of humanity is not so wise, most of the time.

Since Isaiah s time, the Israelites have been removed from their country several times. They had exile movements when attacked by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

And, since the time of Christ, or since 70 A.D., they have been more or less in exile during all of this Church Age. There are currently many more Jewish peoples living around the world, than are living in present day Israel.

And again, since the time of Christ, the Gentile nations have been evangelized continually.

When our Church Age ends with the Rapture, even though there will be no believers on the planet immediately following the Rapture, many folks will see the event and believe in Christ. Evangelism will not stop just because the Rapture occurs. There will be two remarkable evangelists and 144,000 Jewish evangelists who will go to work re-evangelizing the world.

The gospel and doctrine will be available around the clock and around the world. No one who lives during the seven-year period of the Tribulation, will have any excuse for not knowing something about Christ and the spiritual life.

Evangelism will come out of Israel, to the four corners of the world, even to places that have not heard of Christ. And those places will include anywhere that doctrine is not being taught, for obvious reasons, and it will include places where Christianity is prohibited.

Oddly enough, during the Church Age, the bulk of all Bible teaching comes from the gentile nations of the world. After the Rapture, during the Tribulation, the bulk of the Bible teaching will come out of Israel, where is has long been rejected for these many past centuries.

The entire world will be an unbelieving population immediately after the Rapture, but still many millions of people from around the world, gentiles, will come to Christ as a result of the evangelism which will come out of the nation, Israel, who most rejected God and Christ.

As for signs, this is probably one of the more remarkable signs of the end times, that the Tribulation and the last seven years is indeed underway. People will recognize the very dramatic change in Israel, as Biblical teaching will come out of Israel as never before in history. Or, at least since Isaiah s time, and so they will refer to this passage in Isaiah.

The principle source of evangelism in the Tribulation, will come out of Israel. That is the dramatic sign from God.

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