Isa 14:14 | JFB | STEP | 14. clouds-- rather, "the cloud," singular. Perhaps there is a reference to the cloud, the symbol of the divine presence ( ; ). So this tallies with , "above all that is called God"; as here "above ... the cloud"; and as the Shekinah-cloud was connected with the temple, there follows, "he as God sitteth in the temple of God," answering to "I will be like the Most High" here. Moreover, , , represents Antichrist as seated in Babylon, to which city, literal and spiritual, Isaiah refers here.

‏ Isaiah 14:14

14. clouds--rather, "the cloud," singular. Perhaps there is a reference to the cloud, the symbol of the divine presence (Is 4:5; Ex 13:21). So this tallies with 2Th 2:4, "above all that is called God"; as here "above ... the cloud"; and as the Shekinah-cloud was connected with the temple, there follows, "he as God sitteth in the temple of God," answering to "I will be like the Most High" here. Moreover, Re 17:4, 5, represents Antichrist as seated in Babylon, to which city, literal and spiritual, Isaiah refers here.