WHY "THE FORTIFIED CITY IS LEFT SOLITARY".
(Isaiah 27:8-11 NEB).
The fortified city is the spiritual "city" of Spirit anointed sons of God worldwide; who receive communications from the Lord's spirit servants.
When the prophesied "man of lawlessness" was revealed "in human form" ("the disgusting thing" "standing in a holy place". 2 Thess 2:1-12 NWT NEB. Matt 24:15), who stood in a God-given place of authority (without their receiving the authority according to an anointing from God to do so), and who "trampled" upon these anointed ones by their usurpations, they made "solitary" the Spirit sealed members of His congregations. Then was the following scripture fulfilled: "His quarrel with her ends in brushing her away, removing her by a cruel blast when the east wind blows". This really happened! Then did God brush away these congregations of enforcement, of unGodly usurpations, and made it more clear by literal fire, bringing about a physical indicator on earth upon one of these lawless congregations. (See Page 25/4/86B of God's censure of an Australian congregation of so-called Witnesses). His Spirit "blast" desolated them. After that day --of this physical indicator for His anointed-- their past congregations became like "a homestead stripped bare, deserted like a wilderness". (See Rev 11:3-9). For without these anointed channels of communication they are deserted by God, having rejected Holy words from Him through Spirit anointed ones they have also rejected God. Now they are all stored up for "fire".
Their spirit condition is like boughs that "snap off when they grow dry, and women come and light their fires with them. For they are a people without sense". (Isaiah 27:11 NEB).
Interesting is the fact that Isaiah ends this prophecy by saying: "On that day the Lord will beat out the grain, from the streams of the Euphrates to the Torrent of Egypt; but you Israelites will be gleaned one by one." (V.12 NEB). God is now "beating out the grain" by famines in these countries, as ransom for His sons worldwide!
The "blast" on a "great trumpet" of Isaiah 27:13 is also the prophesied "seventh trumpet" of Revelation 11:15, and is when those dispersed in Egypt and Assyria "will come in and worship the Lord on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem." (V.13 NEB).
SOLITARY:
(a) One who retires into, or lives in, solitude from religious motives.20/2/88.