Read Isaiah 14 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
13:6-14:2 {s} Babylon overthrown at the hands of the Medes
14:3-23 {s} The proverb against the king of Babylon, who exalted himself, but who will be brought low
14:24-27 {p} The yoke of Assyria removed from the land of YHVH
14:28-32 {p} Do not rejoice, O Philistia, for destruction is determined against you
The Strong theme:
11:11-14:27 {sx4+p} The return of Israel/ overthrow of Babylon, its king, their Assyrian yoke
The Chiastic structure:
We find from the Chiastic structure that the king of Babylon here is equated with the Shining One, translated “Lucifer” in the Vulgate and in the King James. He is the son of the dawn, who aspired to set his throne above the stars of God (prophetic symbolism for angels, Rev 1:20), and was fallen from heaven.
How can a king of men be fallen from heaven?
We have another clue in Ezekiel, where the king of Tyre is described with unmistakable qualities of an anointed angel from of old (Eze 28:11-16).
How can a king of men be in Eden, and be an anointed angel, and yet be a king of men during the lifetime of Ezekiel?
Again in Daniel, ‘one having the likeness of a man,’ yet whose appearance is as the gleam of burnished bronze, appears to him, announcing that the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood him twenty-one days until the angel Michael came to help him (Dan 10:12-13).
Michael is identified as an archangel (Jude 1:9), the great prince who stands watch over the sons of the people of Israel (Dan 12:1), and the leader of the army of angels who fought the dragon—the devil and Satan—and his angels, who were cast out of heaven. (Rev 12:7-9).
How can a prince of men withstand an angel for twenty-one days?
Scripture is teaching us that there are kings in the spiritual world who correspond to kings in the natural world, ruling over the kingdoms of this world. Natural kings are men, who live and die; spiritual kings are great princes who are from of old, and who are at war. The Greek Testament calls them, principalities and rulers of darkness, spiritual wickedness in heavenly places (Eph 6:12). The spiritual king corresponding to the kingdoms of this world, embodied by Mystery Babylon the Great and its worldview and ideology (Rev 17:3-5), is the Shining One. He is opposed to the kingdom of our Lord and of His Messiah (the kingdom of heaven, Rev 11:15, see also Psa 2:2).
But soon the King of kings and Lord of lords will come, and the war will end, He being victorious over His enemies. And the whole earth will be at rest and quiet (Isa 14:7)!
If there are questions, these are good resources:
The Babylon Connection – Christine Miller
Revelation 17, Mystery Babylon the Great – Christine Miller
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