49:20,21
God’s plans go far beyond anything we can think or imagine. His purposes are far greater than ours. We have too small a view of God, and of His purposes. At present Jerusalem was in a mess. The “children born during her bereavement” are those born during the time of exile, born into a desolate ruin. Yet even they would live to see a time when the space was too small. Zion will wonder where the children have come from. Zion saw her people as limited to the Jews, but in the gospel we see that God brings people into His kingdom from all over the world, and this is a fulfillment of the promise to Abraham in Gen 12:2,3. They were born while Zion was barren, we could now see this as the thousands of years after AD70 up to the present.
4:22
God now makes it clearer what He will do. He will “beckon to the nations”, ie the gospel will go out to the world. The people who come in will be “your children”. As Paul says in Ephesians 2:11-22, God is making one people. There will be perfect unity between the believing Jews and Gentiles, for all will be united in Christ.
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