Language was given to man on day six of the creation week. The man was able to name all the animals (Gen. 2:19,20). Later in the same day God created the woman and brought her to the man. With the gift of language he called her woman. Likewise he was given the ability to understand in as much as he knew that she was created by God from him (Gen. 2:21,22). By inspiration the idea of marriage and who can be married was declared in verse 24. Man and woman became husband and wife.
The whole world was of one language until the issues at the tower of Babel (Genesis 11). In the first century world God gave to certain ones the ability to speak in a language they had never been trained in. The purpose being to spread the gospel into all the known world before the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (Matt. 24:14; Col. 1:23). God used language to convey the truth about salvation to a lost world (I Cor. 2:13). The world saw the foolishness of preaching as to be nothing to be considered. We know through the words of the gospel that all men would have access to the truth whereby they might be saved (I Cor. 1:18; I Peer 1:22).
Keep in mind that God uses words and not impulses to present the truth to mankind. One does not trust their feelings or the fate of those whom they love. Instead man is to trust that which God has revealed. What is implied in that is that man can understand the truth thaT will set him free from the power of sin (John 8:32; Col. 1:13). What the Bible also affirms for us is that God is not the author of confusion (I Cor. 14:33). Using good rules of interpretation and considering all the scriptures dealing with any subject, man can come to know the will of God.
Confusion sometimes occurs because men get mixed up in their minds what it is that God has said. Some of that is caused because of man-made doctrines and the desire to maintain those doctrines. Hence men tamper with the Word of God to keep their doctrines afloat. Jesus came to open the prison in order for us to come out and become servants of righteousness (Isa. 61:1; Rom. 6:17,18). The prison is opened and men can walk free by accepting the truth which God has provided (Acts 17:11).
Isaiah wrote about the earth being made empty (Isa. 24:1). In the same chapter he speaks about the earth reeling like a drunk and being removed. The earth today is still standing and therefore the meaning must be not about the physical earth. The earth of verse 20 is said to be one that will fall and never rise again. God explains to us what is under consideration. Back in verse 5 the earth is described as having transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance and broken the covenant. The work of Isaiah was done in the nation of Judah. The reference then to the earth would speak of the nation of Judah and how they had broken the covenant.
God, through Jeremiah, said He would make a new covenant with His people (Jer. 31:31). The writer of Hebrews said the new covenant was the law of Christ written in the hearts and minds of God’s people (Heb. 8:10). What then would be the meaning from verse 20 of Isaiah 24 about falling and never rising again? Jesus by dying on the cross nailed the old law of Moses to His cross (Col. 2:14). That is once the law of Christ came into full effect the law of Moses would no longer be the source of authority for God’s people.
Confusion occurs because men look at Israel in the Old Testament and mix it with the Israel today in the land of Israel. Israel became a nation in 1948. Hence, preachers today see the Israel of 1948 as being the one whom the promises were made. The passage in Isaiah speaks clearly; it will fall and never rise again. Salvation will never be found in Jerusalem, Israel or any other place on earth. Salvation is in Christ and not in a city or nation.