Secrets from Beyond The Grave

glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. --Isaiah 63:1-4, KJV Isaiah foresaw the future Messiah (Christ) treading out His winepress (Rev. 14:19), and He was alone ("there was none with me"). The Messiah is declaring the day of God's vengeance in order to redeem His remnant on Earth (Isa. 61:4). Notice the region of the battle is Bozrah, and the imagery fits with the Apocalypse, where Christ has a blood-covered garment from fighting this battle alone for this remnant seed (Rev. 19:13). When we compare John's vision of the return of Christ in Revelation 19 to the predictions of Isaiah 63 where the Messiah returns to Bozrah, we can see the parallel prophecies, indicating both prophets are seeing the same event, although their visions were hundreds of years apart: "Treads the winepress" (Rev. 19:15)--"trodden the winepress" (Isa. 63:3) "Robe dipped in blood" (Rev. 19:13)--"blood sprinkled upon My garments" (Isa. 63:3) "Makes war" (Rev. 19:11)--"I have trodden . . . and trampled them" (Isa. 63:3) I believe the reason for Christ returning to this region is that Petra, the future hiding place of a Jewish remnant, is located about sixty miles from Bozrah in the mountains of Moab. Isaiah further gives a prediction about the area of Bozrah and Idumea in Isaiah 34. Its streams shall be turned into pitch,

And its dust into brimstone;

Its land shall become burning pitch.

It shall not be quenched night or day;

Its smoke shall ascend forever.

From generation to generation it shall lie waste;

No one shall pass through it forever and ever.

--Isaiah 34:9-10

This area, situated from the middle to the southern part of the Dead Sea, will be turned into pitch, brimstone, and burning pitch. In the Hebrew text these words are an important link to a future lake of fire that the Bible predicts will exist during the future millennial (one-thousand-year) reign of the Messiah! The word pitch is a liquid form of asphalt. The brimstone is a form of sulfur, and the burning pitch indicates that the area will become a fire pit that continually burns with the substances located in the area. When the New Testament describes hell or the future lake of fire, it is a "lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Rev. 19:20) where the "smoke . . . ascends forever and ever" (Rev.