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ANOTHER ASSURANCE OF ISRAEL’S RESTORATION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Isaiah 62
Psalm 37:37-40
"Mark the perfect man,
and behold the upright…"
ANOTHER ASSURANCE OF ISRAEL’S RESTORATION
Isaiah 62 reads like Isaiah 54. The Messiah here seemed to be the speaker. He reassured Israel, the forsaken land and people, a day of restoration. In that day when Jerusalem will become the holy city indeed, shining forth in righteousness and dispensing salvation to the nations,she shall be called by the new name Hephzibah ("My delight is in her") and Beulah ("married"). No more will she be desolate as in days past, no more forsaken like a widow.
As the Jews regard marital bliss the highest blessing on earth, so the prophet here used this figure of speech to describe the joyful rehabilitation of the land when her sons will be regathered to her. The land is the bride, the people the bridegroom. Notice the same metaphor is used in Isaiah 54 of God the Husband and His people "a wife of youth" (Isa 54:6).
To doubly emphasize the certainty of that Day of Restoration, watchmen (i.e. prophets) will be raised up, which could include those of the Christian Church, who should herald the Gospel incessantly until Jerusalem becomes "a praise in the earth" (Isa 62:7). This is finally sealed by an oath from the Lord Himself who swears by His right hand that Israel in that Day shall be secure from all harassment by her enemies. A picture of millennial peace is expressed in Micah 4:4 as: "But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it."
The conclusion of this prophecy is dramatized by a calling to the heralds to go forth and summon the exiles to return to the restored City. The call is extended with the lifting of a standard to the people or peoples, even the Gentile nations, "unto the end of the world" (Isa 62:11).
THOUGHT: Am I prepared to meet my God?
PRAYER: Help me, Lord, to watch therefore: for I know not what hour Thou doth come.
Posted in Adult RPG
Isaiah 62
Psalm 37:37-40
"Mark the perfect man,
and behold the upright…"
ANOTHER ASSURANCE OF ISRAEL’S RESTORATION
Isaiah 62 reads like Isaiah 54. The Messiah here seemed to be the speaker. He reassured Israel, the forsaken land and people, a day of restoration. In that day when Jerusalem will become the holy city indeed, shining forth in righteousness and dispensing salvation to the nations,she shall be called by the new name Hephzibah ("My delight is in her") and Beulah ("married"). No more will she be desolate as in days past, no more forsaken like a widow.
As the Jews regard marital bliss the highest blessing on earth, so the prophet here used this figure of speech to describe the joyful rehabilitation of the land when her sons will be regathered to her. The land is the bride, the people the bridegroom. Notice the same metaphor is used in Isaiah 54 of God the Husband and His people "a wife of youth" (Isa 54:6).
To doubly emphasize the certainty of that Day of Restoration, watchmen (i.e. prophets) will be raised up, which could include those of the Christian Church, who should herald the Gospel incessantly until Jerusalem becomes "a praise in the earth" (Isa 62:7). This is finally sealed by an oath from the Lord Himself who swears by His right hand that Israel in that Day shall be secure from all harassment by her enemies. A picture of millennial peace is expressed in Micah 4:4 as: "But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it."
The conclusion of this prophecy is dramatized by a calling to the heralds to go forth and summon the exiles to return to the restored City. The call is extended with the lifting of a standard to the people or peoples, even the Gentile nations, "unto the end of the world" (Isa 62:11).
THOUGHT: Am I prepared to meet my God?
PRAYER: Help me, Lord, to watch therefore: for I know not what hour Thou doth come.
Posted in Adult RPG