Journal Through the Bible: Week 67 Monday

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Isaiah chapter 66

Does God issue any commands?

• Those who love Jerusalem are to rejoice and be glad with her even those that mourn for her now! 

Does God make any promises?

• God promised to return their own delusions and fears upon the wicked because they would not answer Him when He called them.
• God promised that those who tremble at His word shall rejoice when their Lord appears and those that abused them will be ashamed. God will recompense.
• Those who love Jerusalem will share in her abundant blessings. God will extend peace to her like a river. God will comfort His children in Jerusalem.
• God will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. Many will be slain. (verses 15-16)
• God would send His people to the far corners of the world to declare His glory among the Gentiles.
• The nations would return the remnant of Israel to their land.

Does this chapter teach anything about Jesus?

• Jesus is the warrior-judge who comes with fire and sword.
• Jesus is the God that sent His people to the far corners of the world to declare His glory among the Gentiles. We call it the Great Commission and it is found in Matthew 28.

Does this chapter teach anything about yet-future events?

• The earth will bring forth her children in one day. God will bring her to the birth and enable it to happen.
• The redeemed who love Jerusalem will share in rich blessings. And there will be peace there.
• All nations and tongues will come to see the glory of the Lord.
• The new heavens, the new earth, and the seed and name of Israel will remain forever.
• All believers will worship God in the set seasons and sabbaths. They will witness the destruction of the wicked.