The last sentence of Isaiah 65:16 inspires the loftiest flight of the prophet's imagination. The "former troubles shall be forgotten" in the glories of a new creation, in which all things minister to the welfare of Jehovah's regenerate people.
Verse Isaiah 65:17. _I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH_] This has been variously understood. Some Jews and some Christians understand it _literally_. God shall change the state of the atmosphere,...
FOR BEHOLD - The idea in this verse is, that there should be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were to be made. I CREATE NEW HEAVENS - Calamity and punishment in the Bible a...
CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...
THE COMING GOOD FORTUNE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Yahweh again is the speaker. My people shall rejoice in the satisfaction of their wants when ye, rebellious ones, are wailing in your need. Nought shall be le...
NEW HEAVENS, &C.: i.e. new, in respect to the old. Not the "new" of 2 Peter 3:13, or Revelation 21:1. Note the contrast of this with the only two references to the history of Revelation 21 :...
DISCOURSE: 1021 THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH Isaiah 65:17. _Behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice...
FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE, &C.— Vitringa observes, that these expressions signify a new and better form of religion, to be introduced into the church, the old and inferior one being abolished. It is plain...
3. CREATED TEXT: Isaiah 65:17-25 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in...
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth. As Caleb inherited the same land whi...
1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...
The same language is in NT. applied to God's final interposition and restoration of all things (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1). Nature itself will be transformed to be in harmony with regenerate Israe...
At the present time, the people can see nothing but the great damage that enemies have done. Those enemies ruined both the *Temple and the city. But this situation will not continue. The *Lord is maki...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4. • In chapter 2:1-...
BEHOLD, I CREATE NEW HEAVENS... — The thought reappears in many forms in the New Testament — verbally in 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1, substantially in the “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21), in...
כִּֽי ־הִנְנִ֥י בֹורֵ֛א שָׁמַ֥יִם חֲדָשִׁ֖ים וָ...
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
A NEW EARTH FOR GOD'S SERVANTS Isaiah 65:13-25 Notice the wide difference that religion makes to the soul. The children of God are secured against the evils which visit all others. _They_ eat; _they...
In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...
For, behold, I create (y) new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (y) I will so altar and change the state of my church, that it will seem to dwell in...
New earth, in eternity, (Clarius) or here indeed, (2 Peter iii. 3., &c.; Houbigant) having purified the former by the general conflagration, which many assert will take place at the end of 6,000 years...
These blessed promises are fulfilled in a gracious sense, when sinners are made new creatures in Christ Jesus; and more fulfilled in that upper and brighter world, which John saw in a vision; Revelati...
17._For, lo, I will create new heavens and a new earth. _By these metaphors he promises a remarkable change of affairs; as if God had said that he has both the inclination and the power not only to re...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...
FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH,.... This prophecy began to have its accomplishment in the first times of the Gospel, when through the preaching of it there was a new face of things...
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Ver. 17. _For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth._] I am making of a new worl...
_For behold, I create new heavens_, &c. I will tell you yet a more admirable thing: I am about wholly to change the state, not only of my people, freeing them from the afflictions and troubles by whic...
THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH...
For, behold, I create new heavens, the plural being applied to the abode of the blessed in many passages of the Bible, AND A NEW EARTH, Cf Revelation 21; AND THE FORMER, that which was here infested w...
COME INTO MIND: _ Heb._ come upon the heart...
17-25 In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miseries of the human race, shall be no more rememb...
FOR, BEHOLD, I will tell you yet a more admirable thing, I am about wholly to alter and change the state not only of my people, who are now afflicted, restoring them to a more lightsome state, more fr...
Isaiah 65:17 create H1254 (H8802) new H2319 heavens H8064 new H2319 earth H776 former H7223 remembered H2142 ...
GOD'S CHOSEN ONES WILL RECEIVE GREAT BLESSING, BUT IT WILL NOT BE SHARED BY THESE WHO HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED. AND GOD WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, AND A NEW JERUSALEM. THE OLD WILL HAVE PASS...
BEHOLD Verse 17 (Isaiah 65:17) looks beyond the kingdom-age to the new heavens and the new earth (see refs. At "create"), but verses 18-25 (Isaiah 65:18) describe the kingdom-age itself. Longevity is...
CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...
Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...
_For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth_ “NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH,” “New heavens and a new earth,” _i._a new universe, Hebrew having no single word for the Cosmos. The phrase sums up a...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:17 Isaiah uses word pictures to describe the joys of the world to come. The description goes far beyond anything the world has ever seen. ⇐...
SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...
2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 51:16; Isaiah 66:22; Jeremiah 3:16; Revelat
I create — I am about wholly to change the state not only of my people, but to bring a new face upon the world, which shall abide until a new heavens and earth appear, in which shall dwell nothing but...