Journey Through The Scriptures

The final chapters of Isaiah continue the themes that are prominent in the second major section of the book (Isaiah 40–66). These include the need for the nation to recognize and repent the sins that caused her people to be led into exile. Like a surgeon who must wound before healing, the Lord brought Israel face to face with her failures. Isaiah identified with the people and confessed their sins before God as a representative of the nation, and chapter 59 ends with a repeated promise of God’s desire to heal and restore. The climax of this will be when “the Redeemer,” Messiah, comes to God’s people (59:20).

Messiah’s glorious arrival ushers in the golden age of Israel. The description of Messianic times in Isaiah 60 and the following chapters is awesome to contemplate. It includes the return of Israel’s exiles to the Holy Land from even the farthest corners of the earth (v. 4), a prophecy which is being fulfilled even today and which we are privileged to participate in through The Fellowship’s On Wings of Eagles ministry. The joy that will come when the Messianic age is fully come is well expressed in the glorious description of the nation’s future (Isaiah 62).