ISAIAH CHAPTER 2
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 2, VS 1-4
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.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 2, VS 1-4
While, in one application, this is clearly speaking of the end times when Jesus will come back and rule the earth, it also has an internal application for each of us who has accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour.. We need, in these times, more than ever, to put Our Lord in His proper place in our lives. He MUST be exalted, above everything and everyone in our lives. We must sit at His feet in our hearts and spirits, and learn His ways, guide us, chastise us, comfort us and love us. We must obey every command He whispers in His still Small Voice to our hearts, for this is our law. He has written His law in our hearts in these latter days. We must live peacefully with all men, as is in our power, but be strong in standing for the Lord in times of persecution.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 2, VS 5-8
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 2, VS 5-8
But some don’t put the Lord first. Some who call themselves Christian, are living like the world…enjoying the things of this world, as idols before the Lord. Our time can be an idol. What do we do with it? These times afford us idle time, and pleasures never dreamed of years ago, which we sometimes “worship” .
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 2, VS 9
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 2, VS 9
Many “Christians” today bow to the whims and sins of the world. They accept the sinful lifestyles of others as normal, and bow down to them in tolerance, which is disgusting in the eyes of Our Lord. This is the mean man—-the average man who calls on the Name of the Lord. The “great man”—the leaders of our nations, even some of them who call themselves Christian, seem fearful of the sinful lifestyles, and make laws to put them on a higher level than the Lord Himself in their lives and their nations.