In Isaiah, chapter twenty-four, verse twenty-one, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.” These powers (the host) are satanic and demonic spiritual forces opposed to God. At the end of history, they will shut up in prison, judged and punished, including Satan himself.
Believers may be driven into the uttermost parts of the earth, but they are singing, not sighing. Here is terror to sinners; the prophet laments the miseries he saw breaking in like a torrent. He foresees that sin would abound, that evil pursues sinners. Worldly men think to dwell in the earth as in a palace, as in a castle; but it shall be removed like a cottage, like a lodge put up for the night. It shall fall and not rise again; but there shall be new heavens and a new earth, in which shall dwell nothing but righteousness. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; it is a heavy burden, under which it groans now, and will sink at last. The high ones, that are puffed up with their grandeur, that think themselves out of the reach of danger, God will visit for their pride and cruelty. Let us judge nothing before the time, though some shall be visited. None in this world should be secure, though their condition be ever so prosperous; nor need any despair, though their condition be ever so deplorable. God will be glorified in all this. But the mystery of Providence is not yet finished. Happy are those who take warning by the sentence against others; every impenitent sinner will sink under his transgression, and rise no more, while believers enjoy everlasting bliss.