VI: The Prophets' Visions

Hiding in the Caves

the exposed powerful with no rebuttal

Root
Isa 2:19-21 · me'arah (H4631)
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 3:8-10
  2. Isa 2:10, 19-21
  3. Hos 10:8
  4. Nah 1:6
  5. Mal 3:2
  6. Rev 6:15-17
New Testament
Rev 6:15-17

Adam first hides "from the presence of Yahuah Elohim amongst the trees" (Gen 3:8). Isaiah sends the proud "into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth" (Isa 2:19), Hosea hears them say "to the mountains, Cover us" (Hos 10:8), and Malachi asks, "who shall stand when he appeareth?" (Mal 3:2). Revelation's hiding kings are the powerful who know they are exposed; the defense has no rebuttal. "Who shall be able to stand?" is answered in chapter 7. The secret-rapture teaching removes the assembly before this wrath, but chapter 7 answers the question with servants sealed and standing on the earth, not taken from it.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 81, 94