I create Jerusalem... — From the prophet’s stand-point, as elsewhere, both in 1 and 2 Isaiah, the earthly city, transformed and transfigured, occupies the central place in the new creation. In the New Testament we note the transfer of the promise to the unseen eternal city, the Jerusalem which is above (Galatians 4:26; Revelation 21:10).
Verse Isaiah 65:18. _REJOICE FOR EVER_ IN THAT _WHICH I CREATE _- "Exult in the age to come which I create"] So in Isaiah 9:6 אבי עד abi ad, πατηρ του μελλοντος αιωνος, "the father of the age to come,...
BUT BE YE GLAD AND REJOICE - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:11). FOREVER - It is not to be momentary happiness - like a bright morning that is soon overcast with clouds. The joy of God’s people is to en...
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...
FOR EVER. Chaldee Targum renders it "in the world of worlds": i.e. the most glorious world....
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...
_I create Jerusalem a rejoicing &c._ i.e. either an object in which one may rejoice (Isaiah 65:19, ch. Isaiah 60:15) or an abode of joy (ch. Isaiah 51:3;...
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...
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...
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Rejoice forever (in that) which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusale...
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...
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-...
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...
כִּֽי ־אִם ־שִׂ֤ישׂוּ וְ גִ֨ילוּ֙ עֲדֵי ־עַ֔ד
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...
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...
18.But rejoice ye and be glad for ever. He exhorts believers to rejoice, in such a manner as they ought, on account of such a benefit bestowed by God. And this was added for the sake of amplification;...
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...
BUT BE YOU GLAD, AND REJOICE FOR EVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE,.... This may refer either to persons converted, both at the beginning of the Gospel, and in the latter day, whether Jews or Gentiles; who...
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever [in that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Ver. 18. _But be glad and rejoice for ever._] What can ye be less than...
_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...
But be ye, the partakers of the glories in this new earth, GLAD AND REJOICE FOREVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE; FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE JERUSALEM A REJOICING AND HER PEOPLE A JOY, so that the believers of a...
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...
You that are my people, though you cannot rejoice with that degree of joy that attendeth a present fruition of good; yet be glad, and rejoice with the REJOICING OF HOPE, for the thing is certain what...
Isaiah 65:18 glad H7797 (H8798) rejoice H1523 (H8798) forever H5703 create H1254 (H8802) create H1254 ...
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...
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'...
1 Thessalonians 5:16; Isaiah 12:4; Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 44:23;...
You — The church, as well under the gospel, as under the law....