27:10,11
This paints a very desolate picture of Jerusalem. This did not happen in Isaiah’s lifetime, for the Assyrian invasion was thwarted at the last, as we will read in chapters 36-39. Isaiah was looking forward to the Babylonian conquest, when Jerusalem was utterly devastated, including the temple, and many people were taken into exile. Why did all this happen? Because “this is a people without understanding”. They had no appreciation of God, no understanding of who He was or His ways. So He would not have compassion on them. We need to appreciate the horrific depths of sin.
27:12,13
But the devastation was not the end, not the final chapter. The Lord would gather the people up from the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt. He would gather them up “one by one”. Remember that Jesus spoke of going after the one lost sheep, and of God counting even the hairs on our head, and not one bird falling from the sky without Him knowing about it. Isaiah, like the Bible, covers vast themes, themes about the whole of humanity, but it is also about the individual. It is not one or the other, but both. God cares for us as individuals, but we are also part of something much bigger. There will be a trumpet call and many will come to worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. Again, note this verse for appreciating verses in the New Testament that speak about the last trumpet.
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