In Isaiah, chapter fifty-four, verses nine through ten, “For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.” This prophecy points to Christ’s reign on earth with His people over the nations, as in Revelation chapters twenty through twenty-two. Therefore, that coming day, God will no longer be angry with His chosen nation.
The existing calamity is that God’s people, submerged in the flood of Babylonian captivity, is a repetition of the calamity of the downpour in God’s eyes. Its object is to purify his Church, as the object of the Flood was to purify the world. A righteous household survived in the one case; a righteous remnant would go forth in the other. And as God bound himself in Noah’s time not to repeat the calamity of the Flood, so now he binds himself not again to submerge his Church in a captivity like the Babylonian.
Today, the battle continues with those who accept Jesus Christ and decide to follow Him to the end. The challenge for believers is to overcome the world and sin to avoid separation from God. The church, similar to the temple, that is ourselves, the desire to be determined not to fail, as in Matthew sixteen, verse eighteen. “Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The more we are determined to live for God, the better.