Isaiah 66:1-24

Isaiah: God controls the nations

God’s promises to his special people

Isaiah Chapter s 58 to 66

Norman Hillyer

Chapter 66

The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those people whose *worship is merely traditional and empty (without any real meaning). And there are those people whose *worship shows a sincere desire to love God (see Isaiah 57:14-21).

Right *worship

v1 This is what the *Lord says: ‘Heaven is my throne (royal seat). The earth acts as my footstool (a rest for my feet). Heaven is vastly superior to any palace that you could ever build for me, your *Lord. The whole earth is immense to you. But to me it is merely a place on which to rest my feet. You cannot produce anything like that. v2 In fact, my own hands have created the heavens and the earth. And everything that is in them. They are all mine. But I am always ready to look with sympathy and love upon anyone who suffers. Or who is in despair. And to give a welcome to the humble person who trembles because of my word of judgement.’