How do we justify taking Isaiah as a description of the second coming/end times rather than the specific fall of the near east nations of the time? [Spirituality & Religion]

The destruction and judgement seems pretty specific and rather local in scope so how do Christians determine that this actually describes the end of the world?

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REMsleep · 41-45, F

Isaiah was a prophet so it is understood that the Bible includes a long line of prophets and the ultimate message is the salvation thru the Messiah.

Isaiah was quoted many times by Jesus himself in the Gospels.

Pikachu ·

@REMsleep

Well maybe the ultimate message is that...but the book of Isaiah is awfully specific and it just doesn't seem to concern most of the world.

Honestly is seems to me to be the same thing that we see when people apply the predictions of Nostradamus to every fucking thing.

It's one thing to predict a specific event and quite a less impressive thing to take old predictions and apply them to whatever you want.