Isaiah 2 Commentary
The Day Of The LORD
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KEY THOUGHT: For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, [Isaiah 2:12a NKJV]
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Isaiah 2 NKJV
The Future House of God
2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning [a]hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
The Day of the Lord
5 O house of Jacob, come and let us walk
In the light of the Lord.
6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with eastern ways;
They are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they [b]are pleased with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is also full of silver and gold,
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land is also full of horses,
And there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is also full of idols;
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made.
9 People bow down,
And each man humbles himself;
Therefore do not forgive them.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty.
11 The [c]lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
14 Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills that are lifted up;
15 Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;
16 Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.
17 The [d]loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
18 But the idols [e]He shall utterly abolish.
19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the [f]earth,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
22 Sever[g] yourselves from such a man,
Whose breath is in his nostrils;
For [h]of what account is he?
Footnotes
a. Isaiah 2:4 knives
b. Isaiah 2:6 Or clap, shake hands to make bargains with the children
c. Isaiah 2:11 proud
d. Isaiah 2:17 pride
e. Isaiah 2:18 Or shall utterly vanish
f. Isaiah 2:19 Lit. dust
g. Isaiah 2:22 Lit. Cease yourselves from the man
h. Isaiah 2:22 Lit. in what is he to be esteemed
New King James Version (NKJV)
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Isaiah 2 Commentary
Isaiah is full of symbols. Verses 1 to 5 introduce us to the Mountain of the LORD. It will tower above all the other mountains. The timing of this event is sometime in the ‘last days’.
Could the scripture be referencing Jerusalem’s prosperity?
Yes, but prosperity is not commerce and industry, nor political power nor technological advancement. We can recheck it. The nations will come to Jerusalem to learn the ways of the LORD.
Could the scripture be referencing the times of the Christ? Yes.
We can underline this: the prosperity of Jerusalem that comes with the Mountain of the LORD has nothing to do with physical prosperity.
Jerusalem is at its lowest when the house of Jacob is filled with eastern ways – the pagan ways. When they are soothsayers like the Philistines, their land is also full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures. Verses 6-7
The reader is drawn back to the time of the Christ. The Mountain has risen above all others. The reader is among the nations making trips to Jerusalem’s temple – the LORD Jesus Christ. An indestructible temple that stands tallest amongst all others. He teaches us the ways of the LORD.
From Jerusalem’s Temple comes peace and joy. Of course, it is never peace as per world standards. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.” John 14:27a
Isaiah then turns his attention to the Jerusalem of his time. It was no different from the Canaanite peoples that the LORD had driven out. Consequently, and in keeping with the solid promise of the LORD, Jerusalem would be wiped out – exactly like the Canaanites.
The LORD scatters sin and the sinful!
We can read this chapter with many thoughts running through our minds. True to this word, Jerusalem was scattered. And from the Book of Lamentations, we shall see just how bad the physical conditions were for the people. You don’t want to think about it.
Probably the most comforting thought can be drawn from verses 12 to 18. The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty. Against all swaggering big names; against all giants; against every soaring skyscraper; against ocean-going luxury liners.
The LORD has the last word. The coming of the Christ is the big day of the LORD. It’s always in the present. The work of the Christ brings down loftiness while elevating humble hearts to kingly status as originally designed.
But don’t judge the kingly status of the saved soul by broken and poorly fitted lenses. Don’t use the devil’s lens. He is a liar.
Which saved soul won’t describe their salvation as the greatest gift ever? Yes, the greatest gift came on earth’s greatest day – the Day of the LORD.
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