Immediately after Isaiah chapter 53 has described (in detail) the Death of Jesus on the Cross … believing Israel is invited to “sing!”

A Nation that has mourned so much throughout her existence … now jubilantly singing!

If you remember, she also sang after she came up out of the dry Red Sea bed … immediately after the armies of Pharaoh had been drowned! (Another instance of singing after salvation!)

Read our Text with me: “SING, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into SINGING, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.” Isaiah 54:1-3, and this Text just “begins” the list of blessings a saved (born-again) Israel will some day enjoy!

The implication here is that Israel will have more “children” (offspring, seed, inheritance) that any of the ungodly nations who did (with much travail) bear many sons and daughters.

Furthermore, Israel will have to “enlarge” her coasts! Growth is ahead, during the Millennium if no other time! (I am thinking of the prayer of Jabez, now.) That’s what the “enlarging” of the place of her “tents” means. The geographical territory called “Israel” will be widened and lengthened exponentially!

Also, according to our Text today, she is going to explode (“break forth”) into revival and expansive national health! She (her capital city Jerusalem) will be the center of the earth some day, in fact … “the joy of the whole earth!” According to Psalm 48:2, it’s Bible!

And again, WHY all this reversal, change of status?

Because of Jesus, His vicarious Death (again, Isaiah 53) and Israel’s subsequent trust (belief) in our Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour!

Did not the same thing happen to us Gentiles? Soon as we were saved? Colossians 3:16 … “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

When the WORD really gets “in” you … joyful singing apparently comes “out” of you!

Praise the Lord!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

My saved friend, sing some today!

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