Isaiah 66:19

19. The achievements just named, no doubt, are the conversion of so large a part of the Gentiles.

I will set a sign Not an “ensign,” (chap. Isaiah 11:12,) a rallying flag around which Gentiles are bidden to throng. It is one of the words used for miracle, the miracle of most extensive Gentile conversions, opened from the time of the great pentecostal occasion. Acts 2:0.

Will send those that escape of them Dispersed Jews and proselytes converted to Christ at the great feast of the pentecost, return as missionaries in every direction to their respective homes, which are here enumerated, but not exhaustively. Tarshish, (western end of the Mediterranean;) Pul, and Lud, (in Africa, Jeremiah 46:9;) Tubal, (in Northern Asia, Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 32:26; Ezekiel 38:2-3; Ezekiel 39:1;) Javan, (in Greece; and Ionian isles and maritime coasts, etc.) This includes the missionary results, not of the pentecostal occasion alone, but of the apostolic labours as well.

Escape of them These converted ones of Israel are of those on whom the fiery judgments of Jehovah were not to fall, as upon the apostate Jews. The prophet, in these verses, writes of events in the manner of foreshortened prediction; that is, of events as occurring quite in his own times, or somewhat later, but which, in point of fact, extend into the far future. They reach, evidently, the apostolic age, and no doubt they qualifiedly cover ages beyond, during which missionary work shall be in demand for the conversion of the entire world the scope of time required by St. Paul in Romans 10:11.