Isaiah 26:21

"For behold Jehovah cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."

This is a clear warning of the final judgment when Adam's rebellious race (the inhabitants of the earth) shall receive their final reward. This conclusion is required by the fact of the whole earth's "disclosing her blood," that is, by God's exposing all of earth's murders, such an event being clearly scheduled for the last day. Rawlinson said that this refers to, "The many murders men have committed on earth." In the same place, he also wrote that:

"Isaiah denounced murder in his very first chapter (Isaiah 1:27). Manasseh's murders were the main cause of the first destruction of Jerusalem (2 Kings 24:4). The second destruction was equally a judgment for the innocent blood that had been shed upon the earth "from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias (Matthew 23:35). Bloodshed cries to God for vengeance (Genesis 4:10); and bloodshed will be one of the main causes of the world's final destruction at the last day (Revelation 16:6; 18:20).[24]

"The earth shall no more cover her slain ..." "In the last day, there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and nothing hidden that shall not be known" (Matthew 10:26). "Every murder, however secret, will be brought to light; and every murderer, however unsuspected previously, will be denounced and punished."[25]

The implications of what is said here compel the identification of this event with the last day. Therefore, the punishment of the wicked promised in Isaiah 26:21 is a reference to the consignment of Satan and all who have followed him in the "eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41).