Introduction
THE FULL REDEMPTION OF ZON: INVOLVING THE LAST CONFLICT AND DELIVERANCE.
The principle laid down in chapter 66 and chapter 1 of these bodies of prophecy by Isaiah, is one and the same, as well as of the same historical scope. It is a condemnation of ceremonial superstitions of all times and of all nations, but especially of the Jews from the days of the prophets onward, through times of temple building and rebuilding, (by Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod,) into the times of Christ and his apostles, with varying applications in every later age.
This last chapter is a distinct prophecy, the note on which it first strikes being in some sort different from that of any preceding discourse. Yet there are several points in it which coincide with those of chap. 65. There is the same line of demarcation in both chapters between worldly and pious Israelites, and Isaiah 66:12 of that chapter is repeated in Isaiah 66:4 of this one. As a whole, it is an express prediction of a complete change from one dispensation the Mosaic to another, the fully installed Messianic, with little or no doubt that the accumulating sway of the Messianic is held in view by the prophet to its victorious consummation.
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