God interrupts things here, just for a moment, to stop looking at peoples from different directions, to look at what they are going to — the city of God. What we’re talking about is not a literal city, but it is a picture of the church of Jesus Christ of all ages, all the elect of God. Christ is now […]

The question is being asked: ‘Who are these people that are coming in?’ The prophet, at least, and perhaps the whole people of God, really don’t know who or what or how this happens to be. They have not understood very well that God, for His glorious sake, will be bringing in people from all over the world. As they […]

This entire prophecy is about the coming of the nations to God in Christ. Some commentators have thought that the sons and daughters here are the remaining Israelites, scattered by exile in Assyria and later (in Isaiah’s day) the Babylonians. Let’s remember, though, that place after place in Scripture, Old and New Testaments, teach that the nations would be incorporated […]