Isaiah was granted a marvellous vision of the future when Jesus reigns in Jerusalem, the house of God is rebuilt there, and all nations of the earth coming up to it to worship.vs.1-2Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:1-2 They will willingly do so, with a determination to learn the ways of the God of Israel and to walk in his paths; a result of the law and the word of the LORD going forth from Jerusalem to all nations.v.3Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:3 Jesus with his saints will administer this law with power to judge among the nations and cause them to destroy all weapons of war, establishing perpetual peace in the earth.v.4Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:4 This verse is inscribed on a monument at United Nations building to express the objective of that organisation, but it has failed to achieve it. However God has plainly stated that this universal peace will be effected by Christ when he reigns in Jerusalem over all.
Such a vision v.1-4Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:1-4 should encourage us to “walk in the light of the LORD”, receiving his word and obeying it. This exhortation was given to Israel v.5Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:5 but to little effect. They placed their trust in soothsayers, money, horses, and idols vs.6-9Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:6-9 and therefore God forsook them v.6Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:6 and brought his judgments upon them and the land.vs.10-21Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:10-21 The imagery of these verses is applicable also to our own day, for the time is very near when God will bring his judgments on the world for its wickedness. He will then arise to shake terribly the earth so that men flee into the caves of the earth for fear of the LORD and the glory of his majesty.v.19Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:19 Then false worship will be abolished v.18Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:18 and people will learn not to trust in men v.22Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:22 but in the living God, and “the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day”.v.17Waiting for response for Isaiah 2:17