Isaiah 24
SIBIsaiah 24:13-15
Such as are graciously preserved shall cordially and publicly acknowledge God’s great power and goodness in their preservation, and praise him in the countries where they sojourn. And your duty is to own his power, justice, and mercy, and to trust in him, and patiently wait for deliverance, in every fiery trial, and in every country, however remote
Isaiah 24:16
May either signify that, though once the whole land of Israel was filled with shouts of praise to a righteous and promise-performing God, yet there is now nothing but desolation, murder, pillage, and captivity, instead thereof; or that, though the Gentiles are in multitudes assembling to Christ and his worship, yet the Jewish nation reject him, and are rendered miserable on that account. 19, 20. The country is rendered desolate, and the inhabitants know not which way to turn themselves, and are tossed about from one place to another. 21, 22. May perhaps represent the final ruin of the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Romans, Antichristians, Turks, and other enemies of the people of God, as well as of the Jewish great men
Isaiah 24:23
The glorious reign of Christ in his church, particularly in the apostolic, millennial, and eternal periods, will obscure the lustre of all earthly grandeur and authority, and the greatest potentates shall stoop to him
REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXIV.—What a world of sinning and suffering we live in! What a theatre of disappointments, dishonours, confusions, sorrows, and deaths! No rank, no place, no thing, escapes the fearful effects of God’s curse: and, if men avoid one misery, they but fall into another. Nor are any more wretched than treacherous apostates from God, and rejecters of his Son. Nevertheless, God in the worst of times reserves a remnant for himself; and often makes the most terrible calamities an introduction to the most remarkable displays of his mercy and grace. In transcendent sovereignty did God bring in the accursed Gentiles to his church, when he rejected the seed of Abraham his friend. And in high sovereignty will Jesus hereafter, to the amazement of all beholders, convert both Jews and Gentiles to himself; and at last, for the eternal manifestations of his glorious perfections, translate his whole kingdom to the celestial mansions above