The chapter ends with a note of victory! Which means this whole Section of Isaiah (chapters 24-27) does as well, pointing toward the future golden Millennium! (Isaiah 24-27 has often been called “Isaiah’s Apocalypse,” due to the nature of its material. Prophetic, largely Tribulational, to the core.)
Here’s today’s Text: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” Isaiah 2:13, what a grand “finale!”
This is God’s Trumpet, which can certainly “warn” at times, but also “summon, gather” a scattered people! (Probably Numbers 10 is the great “go-to” chapter concerning God’s Trumpets!”)
Just think: a “trumpet” sounds at the Rapture. (“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the TRUMP of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first ….” 1st Thessalonians 4:16)
Now notice: a “trumpet” some day sounds, regathering Israel to her “Promised Land!” Here in our Verse today, it is even termed a “great trumpet!”
From the major nations of the world they come! From “Assyria” (northeast) and “Egypt” (southwest) God calls them “home!”
And look how the Lord describes these poor Jews, or should I say these “blessed” Jews?
Those “ready to perish!”
And the “outcasts!” (Meaning “banished, unwanted.”)
And they also (in this verse though the Miracle is not described in any detail) Israel (the Remnant) are SAVED!
How do we know this?
The last clause of our Text … “and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” Where “shachah” means “to bow down, to fall down and adore!” It is in Hebrew a Piel Stem verb, too … suggesting intense, emotional, heart-felt worship!
In “Jerusalem!”
At the Temple, the “Holy Hill!”
And what can any of us Gentiles say to this amazing Event … but “HALLELUJAH?”
Wow!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
Isaiah sure knows how to end an “apocalypse!”
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