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What is your favorite passage of Scripture?
Mine would have to be Lamentations 3.22-23
The contrasting ideas of light and darkness show up close to 40 times in the book of Isaiah.
Maybe the most famous is Isaiah 9.2
quoted by Matthew in Matthew 4.16.
The symbolic concepts of light and darkness permeate the New Testament.
Sin and Satan’s influence are referred to as darkness.
Every person who does not know Jesus as Savior and Lord walks in the darkness.
They are at home in sin.
Righteousness and faith and the Kingdom of God is referred to as a light.
Christians are told to walk in the light as He is in the light.
This theme is mentioned over 70 times in the New Testament.
Christians are to be people of the light who declare that Jesus is the light of the world.
Isaiah 60 emphasizes darkness and light.
It is more than just the darkness of their exile in Babylon, and their release.
It is also more a picture of Gentiles coming to faith in Jesus.
I believe Isaiah telescopes forward to the ultimate dark days of the Tribulation period, and the 2nd Coming of Jesus with GREAT GLORY.
As a matter of fact John quotes Isaiah in Revelation .
And God assures Jerusalem that they will have a role to play in those future days.
The Coming of God’s Glory
Glory used 20 plus times.
It is God’s “heavy” presence.
cloud by day, fire by night.
Showed up on Mt.
Sinai, the Tabernacle, the Temple, and in the person of Jesus.
The first time he came he was crucified for our sins.
The next times he comes, it will be as King of the World.
Arise shine.... Wake up, its a big day.
What a promise to Israel with a promise for us.
It won’t always be dark.
It won’t always hurt.
It won’t always be judgment.
It won’t always be heartache.
There is a promised better day.
The Return of a People
The Jewish people will return from all over the world.
Many people have put much stock in the rebirth of Israel in 1948.
When you walk the streets of Jerusalem it is not uncommon to have someone say to you “welcome home.”
This may be a precursor.
But it is NOT the fulfillment of these verses..
By the way, please note that God plan’s to “glorify his beautiful house.”
This is in keeping with the last several chapters of Ezekiel that promise an enlarged and restored Temple during this period.
But please don’t miss the big picture: Israel’s King will bring this glory.
He will be in charge and will bring about a restoration like no one could imagine.
(I believe God is always in the work of restoring broken down things, and using them for HIS GLORY!)
The Respect of the Nations
God gives Isaiah a glimpse of a restored Nation that the Nations looks to and adore.
It has always been God’s plan to use Israel and Israel’s King to be a light to he whole world.
Israel will once again prosper as it did in the days of Solomon.
Israel will be the spiritual lighthouse of the whole world.
The Restoration of a People
The rest of the chapter bares out the literal nature of this restoration to Jerusalem.
In order to make a prosperous, redeemed, restored people out of a Nation that was almost completely destitute and lost forever.
This was brought on by their idolatry, rebellion, and lack of faith.
But God has great plans to reach down to them with grace and love and mercy.
What’s the takeaway?
God intends to take his people out of darkness and bring them into the light of His Kingdom and His plan for their lives.
While the context deals with the nation of Israel, this speaks to all of us.
There is not a person in this room God doesn’t want to save, to redeem, to take from darkness to light.
There is no one too far gone.
No one too dark.
Some need to come to Christ today.
Child of God, God has great plans for you.
Walk in the light.
His best is there.
Point to the light.
Others need to see Jesus in and through you.
What is one way you can show other’s the light of Jesus this week?
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