Isaiah 2: 1: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2: And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3: And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
In yesterday's article, we saw that the Lord declared that in the last days of the Mosaic economy the Lord Jesus Christ would establish and exalt his church in a way that his people through the law could never do. (See "In The Last Days")
Today, we see the second work the Lord Jesus performs in establishing and exalting his house. The passage speaks of all nations flowing unto the Lord's house. We read that many people, not just his elect from among the Jews, shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. Also, note that it is the Lord who shall do the teaching; that he shall teach, not of man's ways, but of his ways. The prophet says that when he teaches his people they will walk, not in the path of the little obstinate-stiff-necked hills, but in the Lord's paths. All this is because the law and the word of the Lord are going forth out of Zion from the top of the mountains and out of his Jerusalem. (Jer 23: 1-8.)
After our Lord established and exalted his church by his life, his sacrifice and his ascension, God the Father gave him all power in heaven and in earth to send forth the gospel from heaven through his church on earth that he might rule in the midst of his enemies (Psa 110: 1-4; Mat 28: 18-20; Col 1: 21-23.) From his throne in the mountain of glory, Christ Jesus the Lord is now establishing his church by drawing his redeemed people from the north, the south, the east and the west; an elect people out of all nations.
From heavens Zion our victorious King Prophet is teaching his people through the local assemblies and pastors which he has established and raised up. His people rejoice to hear of his way of electing grace, of establishing them complete in God's presence in righteous judgment by his own wisdom, righteousness and holiness. They delight in his way of regenerating his spiritually dead children when he comes in power and grace to each of them; his way of preserving them by the word of his power and of faithfully fulfilling his every promise. As he draws them to his house one-by-one, it is not a grand spectacle or something even noticed by the world of religion who reject the gospel for another jesus. Yet, by the work that he alone is performing, his elect, hear his voice from heaven through his church on earth and they follow him. Christ has made the path free of all thorns of sin and stones of ignorance; they know he is the Way and therefore they walk in his path.
This is the second manner in which the Lord establishes and exalts his house above the insignificant hills of falsehood (Jer 51: 25-26; Mic 3: 9-12; 4: 1; Zec 8: 1-3.) Read tomorrow's article for the third application.
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