# 43 2024 Dev. Isa.2. Blessings and Warnings! “Read all of chapter two first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Isaiah 1:1 “The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah.” (That is the title of this book) These four kings reigned from 792 BC to 680 BC. But Isaiah’s work started in the last year of Uzziah’s reign, 740 BC. In ch. 2 we have a different vision that goes on into ch.3 and 4. Chapter 2 is a vision of the last days,a and a vision of the Day of the Lord.
“The Mountain of the Lord.”
Vs.1-5 “This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: in the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.” This certainly is Christianity being described here. God gives His people of that day, all who would listen to Isaiah and kept covenant with God a vision of the future. We understand them to be the Old Testament church that became the church of Jesus Christ by the covenant of His blood.“And all the nations will stream to it.” This will be a time of God’s grace and peace “He will teach us his ways, so that we walk in his paths.” Isaiah is addressing us as well. Here all the nations are welcome as well as the “descendants of Jacob, let (all of) us walk in the light of the Lord.”
“The Day of the Lord”
Vs.6-9 The Last day describes the blessings of the faithful. “The Day of the Lord” describes those who have abandoned the Lord. The first four verses describe the shortcomings and the Inscincerty of the people.
The prophet could be describing our society today, the superstitions, the lust for gain and for power, the idols, the graft and corruption, the crime and the unaccountability.
Vs.10-11 “the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.”
Vs.12-18 describes what will happen to “all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted. (and will be humbled)…” This includes nature, the work of man’s hand, and all that are arrogant and proud, “the Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and all idols will totally disappear.” Idols? Yes, we have many today.
Vs.19-22 “People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.” This is describing the second coming of Jesus. We are warned! Stop trusting in yourself or other humans, trust in God and Jesus, your salvation! Amen and Amen.
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