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.1-2Isaiah 2:1-2XWaiting for response 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.3Isaiah 2:3XWaiting for response 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.4Isaiah 2:4XWaiting for response 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.1-4Isaiah 2:1-4XWaiting for response should encourage us to “walk in the light of the LORD”, receiving his word and obeying it. This exhortation was given to Israel v.5Isaiah 2:5XWaiting for response but to little effect. They placed their trust in soothsayers, money, horses, and idols vs.6-9Isaiah 2:6-9XWaiting for response and therefore God forsook them v.6Isaiah 2:6XWaiting for response and brought his judgments upon them and the land.vs.10-21Isaiah 2:10-21XWaiting for response 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.19Isaiah 2:19XWaiting for response Then false worship will be abolished v.18Isaiah 2:18XWaiting for response and people will learn not to trust in men v.22Isaiah 2:22XWaiting for response 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.17Isaiah 2:17XWaiting for response