Salvation and righteousness are God's plan, and it His plan for the whole earth. Well meaning people talk about multiculturalism and respect for other religions, they object to Christianity being exclusive. Although they mean well, what they are doing is seeking to deny salvation to all people. God is not against the Muslim, the Hindu, the humanist. Rather He wants all of them to receive the salvation that is found in Christ.
Yet many object. And all who object are forgetting that we are created beings. They are like a pot that somehow imagines it came about of its own accord. This is foolishness, sometimes dressed up in pseudo-wisdom.
The Lord is God, He is the maker of all things, and He keeps all things together. The whole of history is in God's hands. This is a recurring theme in Isaiah and is still true today. We need to keep this in mind when we observe the events of going on around us.
For Israel things would work out in an amazing way. Verse 15 then contains a song or praise and the amazingness of God's plan. Paul does the same at the end of Romans. We cannot work out exactly how God is going to do all that He has promised, but we can be sure that He will. This applies to our own lives as individuals and to the world as a whole. It is not wrong to seek to understand, but we also need to have childlike trust in God as well. The bottom line is that we can trust our God completely.
This chapter finishes with God both challenging the nations, and calling on all the nations to turn to Him and be saved. God's salvation is for all people.
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