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Jehovah Pours Out Indignation Upon the NationsIsaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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By night or by day it will not be extinguished; to time indefinite its smoke will keep ascending.” (Isaiah 34:9, 10a)
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Jehovah Pours Out Indignation Upon the NationsIsaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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The smoke ‘ascending to time indefinite’ vividly illustrates this. When a house burns down, smoke keeps coming from the ashes for some time after the flames have died down, providing onlookers with evidence that there has been a conflagration. Since Christians today are learning lessons from the destruction of Edom, the smoke of Edom’s burning is still, in a sense, ascending.
16, 17. What will Edom become, and how long will it continue in such a state?
16 Isaiah’s prophecy continues, foretelling that Edom’s human population will be replaced by wild animals, implying a coming desolation: “From generation to generation she will be parched; forever and ever no one will be passing across her.
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Jehovah Pours Out Indignation Upon the NationsIsaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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This parched state of the land will continue, as Isa 34 verse 10 says, “forever and ever.” There will be no restoration.—Obadiah 18.
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