Behold Your Future! - Isaiah 65 - (Part 33)

Isaiah 65:17a (ESV) “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. . . Isaiah 65:18 (ESV) But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy . .. Isaiah 66:8 (ESV) Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Isaiah 66:12 (ESV) For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river . . . Isaiah 66:14 (ESV) You shall see . . . the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies. Isaiah 66:15 (ESV) “For behold, the LORD will come in fire, Isaiah 66:18b (ESV) And they shall come and shall see my glory, Isaiah 66:19c (ESV) And from them I will send survivors to the nations . . . that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) “And they shall go out and look on . . . Isaiah 40:6 (ESV) A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. Isaiah 66:16 (ESV) For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many. Isaiah 66:23 (ESV) From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD. Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” Revelation 21:1–2 (ESV)Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had 2 passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 1 Peter 1:10–11 (ESV) Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to 11 be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. Isaiah 65:18-19 (ESV) But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to 19 be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. Deuteronomy 28:30b–32 (ESV) You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a 32 vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. . . . Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing 33 for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, Deuteronomy 28:41 (ESV) You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. Isaiah 59:2 (ESV) but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Isaiah 11:6–9 (ESV) The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf 7 together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down 8 together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the 9 adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 1 Kings 8:27 (ESV) “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built! Isaiah 66:3a (ESV) “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. Isaiah 66:5-6 (ESV) Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name’s sake have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame. 6“The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies! Isaiah 66:8 (ESV) Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. Isaiah 4:2–4 (ESV) In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 3And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded 4 for life in Jerusalem, when the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. Isaiah 66:10–11 (ESV) “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with 11 her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.” Isaiah 66:14b–16 (ESV) and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his 15 indignation against his enemies. “For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke 16 with flames of fire. For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many. Isaiah 66:18b–21 (ESV) And they shall come and shall 19 see my glory, and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. John 12:32 (ESV) And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” Isaiah 52:13 (ESV) Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. Isaiah 53:5a (CSB) But he was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities; Isaiah 53:8b (CSB) For he was cut off from the land of the living; he was struck because of my people’s rebellion. Isaiah 53:12b (CSB) . . . .because he willingly submitted to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels. Acts 1:8 (ESV) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” “They enjoy the day of salvation, but they do not allow themselves to forget the day of vengeance.” bolding mine; J. Alec Motyer, Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 20, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 460.. “The purpose of visiting the cemetery is . . . to register again something loathsome . . . to be repelled and revolted; that is to say, to see again the wages of sin and the fruit of rebellion, and thereby to be newly motivated to obedience and love of the word of God.” bolding mine; J. Alec Motyer, Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 20, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 460–461.