Isaiah 65:9 – 20: Contrast of Covenants, Old and New. Part Two
These last two chapters of Isaiah form bookends with the first two chapters of this book [1]. Themes introduced in the beginning are revisited in the closing chapters. Here are a few of these repea…
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Isaiah 65:9 – 20: Contrast of Covenants, Old and New. Part Two
Jerusalem will eventually become a Valley of Achor, spiritual Babylon stoned by Roman onagers. This passage is worthy of further study, the stoning of Achan a precursor to the stoning of Jerusalem, also, the earthly Mount Zion finally “made low”, Isa. 40:4 and “removed and cast into the sea”, Matt. 21:21.
But at this same place, starting with Calvary, the “door of hope” was opened up, streams of mercy and grace flowing up from the temple, greatly augmented at Pentecost.