God’s Universal Reign
The word which aIsaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.Is 1:1
2 Now it will come about thataIn the last daysThe bmountain of the house of the LORDWill be established 1as the chief of the mountains,And will be raised above the hills;And call the nations will stream to it.Lit onMic 4:1-3Is 27:13; 66:20Is 56:73 And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,To the house of the God of Jacob;That He may teach us 1concerning His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For the 2law will go forth afrom ZionAnd the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.Or some ofOr instructionIs 51:4, 5; Luke 24:474 And He will judge between the nations,And will 1render decisions for many peoples;And athey will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.bNation will not lift up sword against nation,And never again will they learn war.Or reprove manyIs 32:17, 18; Joel 3:10Is 9:5, 7; 11:6-9; Hos 2:18; Zech 9:10
5 Come, ahouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the blight of the LORD.Is 58:1Is 60:1, 2, 19, 20; 1 John 1:56 For You have aabandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filled with influences from the east,And they are soothsayers blike the Philistines,And they cstrike bargains with the children of foreigners.Deut 31:172 Kin 1:22 Kin 16:7, 8; Prov 6:17 Their land has also been filled with silver and goldAnd there is no end to their treasures;Their land has also been filled with ahorsesAnd there is no end to their chariots.Deut 17:16; Is 30:16; 31:1; Mic 5:108 Their land has also been afilled with idols;They worship the bwork of their hands,That which their fingers have made.Is 10:11Ps 115:4-8; Is 17:8; 37:19; 40:19; 44:179 So athe common man has been humbledAnd the man of importance has been abased,But bdo not forgive them.Ps 49:2; 62:9; Is 5:15Neh 4:510 aEnter the rock and hide in the dustbFrom the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty.Is 2:19, 21; Rev 6:15, 162 Thess 1:911 The 1aproud look of man will be abasedAnd the bloftiness of man will be humbled,And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.Lit eyes of the loftiness of menIs 5:15; 37:23Ps 18:27; Is 13:11; 23:9; 2 Cor 10:5
A Day of Reckoning Coming
12 For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoningAgainst aeveryone who is proud and loftyAnd against everyone who is lifted up,That he may be abased.Job 40:11, 12; Is 24:4, 21; Mal 4:113 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,Against all the aoaks of Bashan,Zech 11:214 Against all the alofty mountains,Against all the hills that are lifted up,Is 40:415 Against every ahigh tower,Against every fortified wall,Is 25:1216 Against all the aships of TarshishAnd against all the beautiful craft.1 Kin 10:22; Is 23:1, 14; 60:917 The pride of man will be humbledAnd the loftiness of men will be abased;And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,18 But the aidols will completely vanish.Is 21:9; Mic 1:719 Men will ago into caves of the rocksAnd into holes of the 1groundBefore the terror of the LORDAnd the splendor of His majesty,When He arises bto make the earth tremble.Lit dustIs 2:10Ps 18:7; Is 2:21; 13:13; 24:1, 19, 20; Hag 2:6, 7; Heb 12:2620 In that day men will acast away to the moles and the bbatsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves to worship,Is 30:22; 31:7Lev 11:1921 In order to ago into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffsBefore the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.Is 2:1922 1aStop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;For 2bwhy should he be esteemed?Lit Cease from manLit in whatPs 146:3; Jer 17:5Ps 8:4; 144:3, 4; Is 40:15, 17; James 4:14