My Text this morning: “And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” Isaiah 25:9, our chapter for nearly this whole week, focuses on the Millennium, the coming time when Jesus rules the earth.
Israel particularly is saying this. But the nations (gentiles) of the earth, by then, will freely agree!
“This is our God.” Is that not a personal, albeit collective, confession of faith? It may be the “Behold the Man” parallel of the Old Testament, quoting John 19:5. Or the “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” Sentiment, from John 1:29.
But the next clause, “We have waited for him,” is the real “clue” to what’s happening. The Hebrew verb “qavah” means “to hope for” someone or something! Actually this sentence occurs twice in our relatively short verse! “We have waited for him.” For emphasis no doubt! The seven year Tribulation will probably make its survivors (few in number) “eager” for the Messiah, the Deliverer, the Saviour!
By the way, we Christians today are yet to be “waiting for the Lord!” As in 1 Thessalonians 1:10 … “And TO WAIT for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” With “waiting” here implying our being “residents on earth with our hearts in Heaven!” It’s spelled “anameno.”
But back to Isaiah 25:9, this great watershed verse. “He will save us.” Is that not believing faith? Here is Israel (at least Israel, if not nearly all then-alive humanity) expressing the spirit of John 6:68 … “Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to WHOM shall we go? THOU hast the words of eternal life.”
Amen!
“He will save us” merely claims in advance such verses as Romans 10:13, written in a Jewish context anyway. “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Or Acts 16:31, written in a gentile context. “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
Then the verse reveals the general result of such glorious salvation … “We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” Happiness and joy (unspeakable) in the saving Grace of God! He saved us, Hallelujah!
Wow!
Isaiah 25:9 is at least an amplification of Romans 11:26 … “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.”
It’s going to happen, dear students! Of if you prefer, dear readers! (I like to think of us as fellow-learners in the Word of God.)
Jesus is coming again!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
What a verse to sequentially appear in our series on the Millennium, for THIS SATURDAY! The day we bury my precious Son Joel. A Preacher (Pastor) who believed every word of our Text.
Who looked up Wednesday, having been ushered into the Presence of the Lord, and said “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
Enjoy, Son!
We love you.
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