Final Judgment and Glory of the Lord. Isaiah 66:15-24
VII. NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, Isaiah 58-66
2. The Redeeming God, Isaiah 63-66
77. Where is God’s chosen home? With what vision does the prophecy of Isaiah conclude?
FINAL JUDGMENT AND GLORY OF THE LORD
For indeed, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots will be like the stormy wind, To render His anger with rage, And His rebuke with flames of fire.
For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all mankind, And those slain by the LORD will be many.
“Those who [vainly attempt to] sanctify and cleanse themselves to go to the gardens [to sacrifice to idols], Following after one in the center, Who eat swine’s flesh, detestable things and mice, Will come to an end together,” says the LORD.
“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time is coming to gather all nations and languages, and they will come and see My glory.
I will set up a [miraculous] sign among them, and from them I will send survivors to the nations: Tarshish, Pul (Put), Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant islands and coastlands that have not heard of My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare and proclaim My glory among the nations.
Then they shall bring all your countrymen (children of Israel) from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD–on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels–to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
I will also take some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will remain and endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “So your offspring and your name will remain and endure.
“And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon And from Sabbath to Sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down and worship before Me,” says the LORD.
“Then they will go forth and look Upon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] men Who have transgressed against Me; For their worm (maggot) will not die, And their fire will not go out; And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
77. Where is God’s chosen home? With what vision does the prophecy of Isaiah conclude?
ALL FLESH SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD
The prophet makes it clear that, whatever blessings accrue in the golden future, they will be apportioned to those alone, who are the Israel of God, not merely by descent but in heart and life. They must be what the Apostle describes in Php_3:3. Those who were bent on practicing idolatrous rites, such as passing in procession, with priests as teachers, through gardens and groves devoted to impurity; or who, by partaking of the flesh of animals forbidden in the Levitical law, had become as Gentiles, must suffer with the heathen.
Isa_66:19 suggests that the restored Jewish remnant are to become the future missionaries of the world; and the book closes with a vision of the Holy City as the focus and center of the religious life of mankind. It is as though, like John, Isaiah beheld her descending from God out of heaven, with wide-open gates, through which the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor, Isa_66:20. The lot of all enemies of goodness is depicted in the everburning fires of Tophet-the rubbish heaps of which are significant of uselessness, Isa_66:24.
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