WHEN WOULD THEY SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS “FALL ON US” AND TO THE HILLS “COVER US”?
Isaiah 2:2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days (“last days” KJV) 10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the LORD…19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks And into the caves of the earth,…From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
Notice again the context here… the latter days, the last days is associated with the day of the Lord, a day of judgment for the proud and haughty and lofty would also be a time when the mountain of the Lord’s house, which is the kingdom of God, will be exalted above the hills which are the little kingdoms and nations.
Jesus applied this passage to HIS day, not a future day.
In Luke 23 Jesus is being led to his death and he turns to the women who are weeping for him and this is what he said,
“27 And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. 28 But Jesus, turning to THEM, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for YOURSELVES and for YOUR children. 29 For indeed the days ARE COMING in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
THEN…
Revelation 6:15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
What Isaiah calls the last days, Jesus says is coming soon TO THEM in THEIR DAY, and then the same thing is said in Revelation BECAUSE it all refers to the same event.
Revelation has been fulfilled in the fall of Jerusalem in AD70.
Chuck Crisco

Did you realize that every time God “comes down” or that he “comes in the cloud”, it is always about judgment?

Genesis 11:7 – Babel

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Genesis 18:21 – Sodom

that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

Deuteronomy 33:26

“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,

who rides across the heavens to help you

and on the clouds in his majesty.
Psalms 104:3

and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.

Jeremiah 4:13-14 – Jerusalem

Look! He advances like the clouds, his chariots come like a whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us! We are ruined!

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved.

How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

Ezekiel 1:28 – 2:1

Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Daniel 7:13 – Jerusalem AD70

“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.

His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

Matthew 24:30 AD70
“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 AD70

After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Revelation 1:7 AD70

“Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.”

So shall it be! Amen.

Revelation 14:14

I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Revelation 14:16

So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

So.

Do you know see what is the coming in the clouds?
It is always speaking about judgment. Not rapture.

There is one more thing I want you to see. Revelation 14 records the actual coming in the cloud mentioned by Jesus. Now pay attention to this. What would happen?

Revelation 14:16

So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
Now let me ask you this question. When was the earth harvested?

Matthew 9:37 AD30-33

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.”

Do you realize it was during the generation spoke about?
Let’s close with a fascinating thought. If that is about AD70. It would mean that’s the final time he came and went back.

It also means his final coming was found in Revelation 21. It was hence also about AD70.

Let me show when was the final coming.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

He now already dwells with his people. Did you know since then he hasn’t gone back for him to go back. His dwelling is no longer in the clouds.

It’s among his people. You.
God bless you.
Simon Yap