Isaiah 27:1-13
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.”
King James Version
Isaiah's 'little apocalypse' closes with the LORD punishing leviathan with His 'sore and great and strong sword,' Israel blossoming to 'fill the face of the world with fruit,' and a great trumpet gathering the outcasts from Assyria and Egypt to worship 'in the holy mount at Jerusalem.'
Fulfillment References
Matthew 24:31 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Revelation 20:2
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalThe serpent of Eden, the dragon of the deep, and the devil of Revelation are one enemy with one appointment — the great sword; and one trumpet gathers one people to one mount.
JewishThe shofar of ingathering (v.13) enters the daily Amidah ('Sound the great shofar for our freedom') — this verse is prayed three times a day worldwide.
CatholicThe trumpet and gathering inform the Church's reading of the general resurrection and final assembly.
ProtestantLeviathan's defeat frames history: chaos personified is not managed but slain — the apocalyptic hope in its oldest Israelite form.
DispensationalThe regathering trumpet (v.13) is read with Mt. 24:31 as Israel's end-time ingathering, distinct from the church's catching away.
AcademicLeviathan derives from the Ugaritic Lotan (ltn) of the Baal cycle — a deliberate demythologizing polemic: what Baal battles eternally, YHWH dispatches on a scheduled day.
Scholarship & Sources
The Lotan/Leviathan parallel (KTU 1.5) is standard comparative material (see Day, God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea); the Amidah's tenth blessing quotes v.13.
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