Why should the Spirit of the Lord rest on who God is? It is precisely because through Him He will be revealed, through Him that the actions of the Spirit will finally become available to all people, and these gifts of the Spirit, which will rest perfectly in Christ, will also be transmitted to believers.

3.8. Prophecies about the fate of the pagan nations and about Jerusalem

As with other prophets, vengeance turns out to be associated with a world catastrophe.

"Weep, for the day of the Lord is near, coming as a destructive power from the Almighty. That is why everyone's hands dropped, and everyone's heart melted. They were terrified, convulsions and pains seized them; they are tormented like a woman giving birth, they look at each other in amazement, their faces are aflame. Behold, the fierce day of the Lord comes, with wrath and burning wrath, to make the earth a desolation, and to destroy its sinners from it. The stars of heaven and the luminaries do not give light from themselves; the sun is darkened at its rising, and the moon does not shine with its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquities, and I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and I will humble the arrogance of the oppressors; I will make men more precious than pure gold, and men more precious than the gold of Ophir. For this I will shake the heavens, and the earth will be moved out of its place because of the wrath of the Lord of hosts, in the day of His burning wrath" (Isaiah 13:6-13).

Even in the prophecies about the punishment of certain peoples, there is something more. In the fall of Babylon, we see an image of the fall of Satan.

"And it shall come to pass in that day, when the Lord shall make thee out of thy affliction, and out of fear, and out of the heavy bondage to which thou wast enslaved, thou shalt utter a song of victory against the king of Babylon, saying, 'As the tormentor is gone, the robbery is stopped!' The hell of hell has been stirred up for thy sake, to meet thee at thy entrance, Thy pride has been cast down into hell with all thy noise; a worm is laid under you, and worms are your covering. How thou hast fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the dawn! He was dashed to the ground, trampling down the nations. And he said in his heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on a mountain in the assembly of gods, at the end of the north; I will ascend to the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High." But thou hast been cast down into hell, into the depths of hell. Such is the decree decreed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out against all nations, for the Lord of hosts has ordained, and who can abolish it? His hand is outstretched, and who can turn it away? " (Isaiah 14:3, 4, 9-15, 26-27).

The twentieth verse in Slavonic reads as follows: "As a robe soaked in blood shall not be clean, so thou shalt not be clean: for thou hast destroyed My land, and hast slain My people. Thou shalt not abide in eternal time." Commenting on the above passage, St. Basil the Great says: "Here is another part of the lamentation for the prince of Babylon and for his deeds. After the Lucifer who fell from heaven said in his heart: "I will ascend to heaven, I will be like the Highest"; in proof of how far from being likened to the Holy One who has defiled himself with all impurity and murder, he is likened to a garment, which by its nature is made for the adornment of man, but because it is soaked in blood, it cannot be taken by man for use. From this it is evident that the evil one has impurity in himself not because of his structure, but because he has stained himself with blood, having destroyed the land of the Lord and killed people through sin" [8, part 2, p. 319].

3.9. Eschatological Prophecies: Isaiah's "Great Apocalypse"

Chapters 24-27 again deal with judgment. Here again the universal scope of the sermon is manifested in the fact that the prophet proclaims judgment not only against Samaria, not only against Jerusalem, but against all nations. Thus, Isaiah speaks of Damascus, of the Moabites, of the Philistines, of Tyre – God's action extends to all nations and to all kingdoms. This section is sometimes called the Apocalypse of Isaiah, because it speaks of the Judgment in such a way and on such a scale that the particular judgment grows to the size of the end of the universe and the Judgment of the whole world.

Let's see in what features this court is presented. "Behold, the Lord destroys the earth and makes it barren; He changes its appearance and scatters those who dwell in it. Terror and pit and noose for you, inhabitant of the earth! Then, he who flees from the cry of terror will fall into the pit; and whoever comes out of the pit will fall into the snare; for the windows from the heavenly heights will be dissolved, and the foundations of the earth will be shaken. The earth is crushed, the earth is disintegrated, the earth is greatly shaken; she staggered like a drunken man, and swayed like a cradle, and her iniquity weighed down on her; it will fall down and not get up again. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall visit a host on high high, and the kings of the earth on earth. And they shall be gathered together as prisoners in a pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days they shall be punished. And the moon shall be red, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and there shall be glory before his elders" (Isaiah 24:1, 17-23). Let us pay attention to this: many times the prophets speak of the Lord's impending enthronement in Zion. But look at the events that precede this: the earth sways like a cradle with a child, disintegrates, staggeres like a drunken man, the exalted, that is, the heavenly hosts, the kings of the earth, gather together in one pit, for judgment. It is clear that this enthronement, of course, is not just the coming of such a messiah, of whom the Jews dreamed, who will rule, good and just, in the city of Jerusalem, and the pagans will bring all kinds of gifts, lick their feet, as the prophet Isaiah further says: dust under the feet of the Jews, etc. Everything looks much more terrible.