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LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 62
ISAIAH 57:3 – 60:22 - PART 2
Isaiah 60:3a
"And the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) shall come to thy light,…" Whose light? Israel’s. Isaiah 60:3
"And the Gentiles shall come to thy (Israel’s) light (their Messiah, their Redeemer.) and kings to the brightness of thy rising." Now verse 4, here is the instruction for the nation of Israel.
thou shalt hearken diligently to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee (Israel, the nation) on high above all nations of the earth: (See that? That’s God’s promise even through the prophet Moses.) 2. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God."
"The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13. And the LORD shall make thee the head, (that is of all the nations of the world) and notthe tail; (Which they are now, you remember. All right, back to Isaiah chapter 60. I want you to keep this upper most in your thinking - that the day is coming when Israel will be a blessing to the Gentile nations, and they (Israel) will be the greatest nation on the earth.
Israel’s population is about 15 million today. There’ll only be a few in every Gentile nation, compared to five million Jews. Israel. Israel will be the greatest nation on earth.
Isaiah chapter 2 verse 2. Isaiah 2:2a
Isaiah 2:2b
Now mountains and hills in Old Testament symbolism are kingdoms and nations, or empires, however you want to put it.
Isaiah 2:2c
It’s going to be the headquarters, the capital of the world, because it’ll be the crowning nation to which all the Gentile nations will subscribe.
All right, now back to Isaiah chapter 60 again. When the Redeemer will come to Zion, and he will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Isaiah 60:6
The nations of the world are going to bring praise to the King of Kings, holding forth there in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 60:7
Isaiah 60:8-9a
Isaiah 60:9b-10
"…their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, (why?) because he (God) hath glorified thee (the nation of Israel) 10. And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls; and their kings shall minister unto thee: (See the obedience of all of the nations of the world to Israel’s king?) for in my wrath I smote thee, (back in their time of unbelief) but in my favor have I had mercy on thee." That we’ve got two sides of the question - Israel’s unbelief and God’s chastisement, Israel’s obedience and the blessings of God upon them. Isaiah 60:11a
"Therefore thy gates shall be open continually;…" Isaiah 60:11b-14
12. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee will perish; (Well, what does it tell you? yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 14. The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." Isaiah 60:16
Let’s come back to Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1 and we’ll jump in at verse 64. Luke 1:64
Luke 1:65-67a
67. And his father (John the Baptist’s father) Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit,…" Remember, the Holy Spirit was operating long before Pentecost. Luke 1:68-71a
"Blessed be the Lord God of (the world?) Israel; (this is all Jewish) for he hath visited and redeemed his people, (Israel.) That we (the nation of Israel) should be saved from our (sins? enemies,…" That Israel will be spared from all her enemies. The Arab world. The Gentile world. That the nation of Israel would be blessed supremely by the Creator God, but that also out of that nation would come the Redeemer for the whole human race. All right, back to Isaiah chapter 60, and verse 17.
Isaiah 60:17-18a
Isaiah 60:18b-19
"…wasting nor destruction within thy borders; (none of that) but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19. The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." Matthew 17:1-2
All right, back to Isaiah chapter 60 and then it’s almost time to wind it up. Verse 20:
Isaiah 60:20a
"Thy sun (not the sun out there in solar space, but Israel’s son, the Son of Righteousness, the God of Glory who is now ruling in Jerusalem) shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD (Jesus the Christ) shall be thy everlasting light,…" Isaiah 60:20b
Unbelief. Isaiah 60:21-22a
Isaiah 60:22b
"…I the LORD will hasten it in his time."

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