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When Jesus lived in Israel he used God’s power to give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, and he healed many other disabled people of their disabilities. In the future age he will do this again on a greater scale, and the saints will co-operate with him in this vs.5-6.Isaiah 35:5-6XWaiting for response
The faithful will walk in the way of holiness v.8Isaiah 35:8XWaiting for response for they are the redeemed v.9.Isaiah 35:9XWaiting for response All God’s people will be brought to the land. Israel will be gathered out of the nations into the promised land and the saints will be brought out of their graves to rule them with Jesus for “the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away” v.10.Isaiah 35:10XWaiting for response
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Isaiah 35:1-4XWaiting for responseIn the age to come the promised land will become a paradise, providing evidence to the nations that the God of Israel has intervened to bless his people: “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose” v.1.Isaiah 35:1XWaiting for response This is in stark contrast to her neighbour, Idumea, who persecuted Israel through the ages and whose land will “lie waste from generation to generation” Isaiah 34:10.Isaiah 34:10XWaiting for response The Holy Land “shall blossom abundantly for them” vs.1-2,Isaiah 35:1-2XWaiting for response i.e. for those who “seek out the book of the LORD, and read” Isaiah 34:16,Isaiah 34:16XWaiting for response who will possess the land from generation to generation as it is their lot, or inheritance Isaiah 34:17,Isaiah 34:17XWaiting for response according to God’s promise to Abraham and his seed. Therefore God exhorts all such, saying: “Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you” vs.3-4.Isaiah 35:3-4XWaiting for response