Isaiah 2:1-5
“The word
that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall
come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the
mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall
flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of
Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For
out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem. He shall judge between
the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the
light of the Lord.”
I
desire to do what the author of 2 Timothy 2:15, teaches in this verse; “Do your best to present yourself to God as one
approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of
truth.” With that backdrop and looking to my teacher the Holy
Spirit, it seems Isaiah’s vision extended beyond the eighth century, and outside
of the Old Testament and to a time yet to come.
My friend Bill, taught me that you and I are time critters, and we
divide time into three parts; Past, Present, and Future, it is important to do
so to grasp some understanding of life on planet earth. Now for this to work for you, it requires you
to accept that there is a Creator, we refer to Him as God. He made everything
including time, and faith requires the time dimensions, and when time is no
longer needed time will cease to be.
Being God, He is not controlled by His creation and He is not
time-dimensional. God, much like a
person in a helicopter, views everything in your life as present tense, and
sees forever into what we call the past, present, and the future. Christ’s life is eternal, extending forever
into what you call the future and the past.
In Isaiah’s vision God opened his eyes to what we call the future.
Often, when the
Bible speaks of the last days, the uninformed will make statements like, is this
referring to the end of time or the end of the world? That is far from what Isaiah is seeing in the
vision. But the person is correct in
believing it is the end of something, the Church age. The Church will be gone, and the mighty One,
the Warrior, the Lamb of God, the only Son of God, the Messiah, the Christ will
come to reign on earth for 1000 years on planet earth. So with that backdrop, shall we begin the
trip into Isaiah’s vision?
When God’s word
addresses the same message more than once it’s wise to pay close attention, and
so let me encourage you to turn to Micah 4:1-4.
From the Back
Porch,
Bob Rice
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