THE COMING OF THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH (Isaiah 65:13 to Isaiah 66:24 ). The final vision of Isaiah centres on the fact that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. Old things will pass away and all things will become new, just as he has constantly promised. read more
The Final Triumph (Isaiah 66:22-24 ). Isaiah 66:22 ‘For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will remain before me, so will your seed and your name remain.’ Once again we are reminded that God has made all things new. And they are permanent and everlasting as He is everlasting (they ‘will remain before Him’). But equally everlasting are the seed of these whom Yahweh has gathered. The Abrahamic promise now belongs to them as well. And their name will remain (contrast Isaiah... read more
Isaiah 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme— the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious— is pursued now on one side, now on the other. Isaiah 66:1-Numbers : . An Attack on the Projectors of a Rival Temple.— Those Jews who refused to accept the reformed religion apparently proposed to set up a rival temple. Yahweh scornfully demands of them in what manner of building they would house Him, whose habitation is the universe. These things— a temple and a... read more
This whole verse is only a promise of the perpetuity of the gospel church, and the not failing of the additions to it of such as shall be saved till the world shall have an end. The new heavens and the new earth; the new state of the church to be raised up under the Messias. As I intend that shall abide, so there shall be a daily succession of true believers for the upholding of it; for if believers could fail from the earth, the church, made up of them only, as the true members of it, must... read more
DISCOURSE: 1025THE JEWS TO CONVERT THE GENTILESIsaiah 66:18-24. It shall come, that I will gather all nations and longues; and they shall come, and see my glory. And I will set a sign among them; and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. And then shall bring all your brethren for an... read more
Chapter 66Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? ( Isaiah 66:1 )They're going to build a new temple, but God says, "Hey, don't need it." And this is that temple that will probably be built at the covenant of the antichrist. Thus saith the Lord, "The heaven is My throne, the earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build for Me? Where is the place of My rest?"For all... read more
Isaiah 66:1 . The heaven is my throne. This chapter applies to Isaiah’s time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the contrite and with the tremblers at his word. It seems from the connection to import, that God would forsake his sanctuary, and dwell with those who worship him in spirit and in truth. Where is the house that ye build unto me? These words are spoken to designate the grandeur and immensity of the... read more
Isaiah 66:18-24It shall some, that I will gather all nations and tongues.The conversion of the worldI. FUTURE PROSPECTS OF PROVIDENCE RESPECTING THE GLORIOUS WORK OF THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD TO CHRIST. II. THE MEANS BY WHICH IT SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED. III. THE EXTENT TO WHICH IT SHALL REACH. IV. THE HOLY AND BLESSED EFFECTS WHICH SHALL BE PRODUCED BY IT. (J. Snodgrass, D. D.)The Gospel to be preached to the uncivilizedNo regard seems here to be paid to that favourite maxim with many, that the... read more
Isaiah 66:22For as the new heavens and the new earthThe perpetuity of the true IsraelThe bulk of the heathen world and also of Israel perish, but Israel’s name and seed, i.. Israel as a nation with the same ancestors and an independent name, remains for ever (cf. Jeremiah 31:35 f.; Jeremiah 33:20-26), as the new heaven and the new earth. And just because Israel’s calling in regard to the heathen world is now fulfilled and all things are made new, the old fencing off of Israel from the heathen... read more
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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 66:1-24
This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of the established government of God, and then proceeds to show how that for those who had chosen their own ways He will choose delusions, and that because when He called they did not answer. Those who had trembled at His word He will deliver, in spite of all difficulties. In the final message the... read more