Isaiah 2:1 ¶ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
The second chapter of Isaiah begins by
establishing again the context of a pronouncement against Judah and Jerusalem.
However, from all appearances it looks forward with prophecy on the millennial
reign of Christ as this did not happen due to Israel’s disobedience.
According to John Gill, Rabbi Aben Ezra, a
noted rabbi of Jewish History, preaching in the 12th century AD or
Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord, said that whenever the last days
are mentioned it is a reference to the time of the Messiah to come. In
Christian understanding, as these two events, His first and last advent, are
conflated in the Old Testament, is that this is a reference to Christ’s
Millennial Reign from Jerusalem. All the nations shall flow into it.
Zechariah 8:20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet
come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
21 And the inhabitants of one city shall
go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek
the LORD of hosts: I will go also. 22
Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts
in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.23
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that
ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we
have heard that God is with you.
Christ’s rule from earth is clearly referred
to here.
Psalm 72:7
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long
as the moon endureth.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it
with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the
LORD of hosts will perform this.
Isaiah 11:6
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a
little child shall lead them.
7 And
the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and
the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea. 10 ¶ And in that
day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the
people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Micah 4:3
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar
off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
There is then a plea for the people of Israel
to walk in the light of the LORD, Jehovah, whom Christ is the visible image of.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If
ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye
know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip
saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long
time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
Colossians 1:15a Who is the image of the invisible God…
Hebrews 1:1 ¶
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in
these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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