Isaías 35
H.A. Ironside · Citado em PreceptAustin
Isaías 35
Ironside - THIS precious portion, which concludes the first division of our book is a beautiful inspired poem, setting before us the delightful conditions which will prevail in this world after the binding of Satan as depicted in Revelation 20:1+, and the enthronement of our Lord Jesus Christ as Sovereign of the universe. Isaiah’s own heart must have been thrilled as he looked forward to this time of peace and righteousness following the long years of strife and wickedness which have caused such grief and suffering throughout human history. Even creation itself will share in the blessings of that day of Jehovah’s power. (Isaiah 35 - MILLENNIAL BLESSING) Larry Walker - Chapters 34-35 form an appendix to the preceding parts of the book; they contrast the storm of God’s wrath with the blessings yet to come. From judgment, the prophet turns to the redemption of Israel. The somber picture of death and destruction in chapter 34 is transformed into one of vibrant life and rejoicing in chapter 35. Contrast—the setting of one condition or situation against another—was Isaiah’s favorite method of teaching. In chapters 2-4, he contrasted the ideal Zion of the messianic age with the moral corruption of the real Zion (Jerusalem) of his day. In Isa 9-11, he set the terrible treatment of Israel and Judah at the hands of Assyria over against the future glory and permanence of the redeemed remnant under the Messiah, the Root of Jesse. Now he contrasts the deserts of Edom, filled with hyenas and wild goats (Isa 34:14), with Israel’s blooming desert (Isa 35:1-2). This change is symbolized by the blooming of the desert as nature enters into the joy of God’s redeemed people. (See context in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations Cornerstone Bible Commentary) Holman note- This chapter is a mirror image of chapter 34 where God announced that He would turn the nations into a wilderness. In chapter 35, He proclaimed that He would transform the people of God (ED: THE JEW IN CONTEXT) from a wilderness into a garden. The principle (APPLICABLE TO ALL BELIEVERS) of both chapters is that God's people should trust Him, not the nations. (See context in The Holman Illustrated Bible Commentary) W E Vine - The Millennial conditions of peace and prosperity foretold in this chapter and the definite contrasts with what is predicted in chapter thirty-four, make clear that the judgments of the wrath of God foretold in that chapter are those to be carried out at the close of the present age. The overthrow of the antichristian powers by the Second Advent of Christ will be followed by what set forth. In contrast to the barren condition of Edom, the land of Palestine will “blossom as the rose” (Isaiah 35:1). “The glory of the Lord, the excellency of our God” will be manifested (cp. Isaiah 40:5). (Collected Writings) J
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Ironside - All that is lovely in the present condition of the world, such as the grandeur of Lebanon, the beauties of Carmel and Sharon’s plains will be retained in that new era, and to these will be added many additional testimonies to the Creator’s joy in the world which He brought into being by the word of His power, but which has been so terribly marred as a result of man’s sin. Every fruitful field or orchard, every lovely garden, presents a foretaste of what in Messiah’s day will be everywhere prevalent, when the parched deserts will give place to verdant meadows, and the thorns and thistles brought in by the curse will vanish, and trees and shrubs bearing fruits to appeal to the appetite and flowers to delight the eye, will spring up instead. But the physical and spiritual blessings that will come to all mankind will transcend all of these material changes. (Isaiah 35 - MILLENNIAL BLESSING) D L Moody - I THINK there is a difference between happiness and joy. Happi-ness is caused by things which happen around me, and circumstances will mar it, but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution and opposition; it is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring which the world can’t see and don’t know anything about. The Lord gives His people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to Him. G Campbell Morgan on Isaiah 35:2 - In this brief but beautiful chapter we have the concluding note of the first part of this great book of Isaiah. It is a perfect song of restoration. It begins with a recognition of the wilderness, the dry land, and the desert (verse r). It ends with Zion, the city of God, the realization of the Divine order (verse to). This is the note found in all these Hebrew prophets. No men saw the corruption of life more clearly, or denounced sin more vehemently. At times their messages were dirges, almost, but never quite reaching the level of despair. Never quite, for they saw Jehovah, and that vision made despair impossible. Through all the clouds and darkness, the travail and terror, they saw the day of God coming; and His day was a day of restoration as to its ultimate, although a day of wrath and consuming fire in its processes. The words we have emphasized are the most revealing, in their portrayal of the final world order. The word "They," in the Hebrew "These," refers to the wilderness, the dry land, the desert. "They shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God." That glory is the glory of Lebanon, the mountain of cedars; that excellency is the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, the places of fruit-fulness. This is the final victory of God in the earth. It is the victory, not of creation, but of ransom, redemption, regeneration, renewal. Not that Lebanon should flourish and Sharon and Carmel rejoice; but that the wilderness and the desert places rendered desolate by human pollution, should come to see the glory of Jehovah. When Isaiah heard the seraphim sing, he heard them declare that the whole earth is full of the glory of Jehovah (Isaiah 6:3). Here he declares that this glory shall be manifested in spite of desolations widespread and long-continued. (See Life applications from every chapter of the Bible ) Isaiah 35:3 Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. KJV Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ESV Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. NLT Isaiah 35:3 With this news, strengthen those who have tired hands, and encourage those who have weak knees. YLT Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen. Isaiah 40:1,2; 52:1,2; 57:14-16; Judges 7:11; Job 4:3,4; 16:5; Luke 22:32,43; Acts 18:23; Hebrews 12:12 ENCOURAGE THE FEEBLE AND FAINT-HEARTED Parunak - The unnamed company that inspires the wilderness is not proud and strutting, but stumbling and discouraged. This is a people that has been under bondage and oppression, through divine chastisement. Thus Heb 12:12-13 uses this text to speak of the encouragement of those under divine discipline: (Heb 12:12+) (Isaiah 34-35 Commentary) Jennings - There is a very delightful truth in verse 3. God does not even strengthen His weak people directly; He seems in the depth of His grace to make Himself dependent, as it were, upon them. Let us suppose that we have a very weak Christian—it is not a difficult supposition—God could of course lift up those down hanging hands and strengthen those tottering knees by Himself alone; but no, He admits others to share that gracious ministry with Him, and thus He makes us "workers together" with Himself, spreading thus His blessing, not merely over the one direct object of it, but over the many others who seek to strengthen the feeble one; is not this a very much better way? There have always been, and never more than today, real, true Christians whose hands are hanging down, who are relatives of "Little-faith and Despondency, his daughter," as John Bunyan speaks. We have precisely the same cheering basis for encouraging each other as in our prophecy: "Say to the trembling heart, Be strong, for your God comes." The hope of that coming was to give strength to the fainting Israelite, and it is the hope of His coming that shall today strengthen the faint heart of the Christian. (Isaiah 35 Commentary) Encourage the exhausted - Literally "Strengthen the weak hands." Those who are able are called to strengthen those who are not as fit. Others are so tired, so worn out that they cannot even grasp anything with their hand. Have you ever felt like that? Hopefully a brother or sister recognized your state of exhaustion and came alongside to encourage you. That is the thrust of Isaiah's two commands (exhortations) to encourage and strengthen others in need. But encourage (Parakaleo in the present imperative ) one another day after day (HOW OFTEN?), as long as it is still called “Today,” (WHY DO WE NEED TO BE DAILY ENCOURAGERS) so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin (SEE SIN'S DECEITFUL CHARACTER). (Heb 3:13+) Encourage is the Hebrew verb chazaq which means to strengthen or cause to grow strong and is frequently translated encourage (12 times in NAS). Our English word "encourage" means literally “with heart.” To encourage in a sense is to give others new heart. Shallow sympathy makes people feel worse --- true spiritual encouragement makes them feel better. It brings out the best in people. It means to give or inspire courage, hope, or confidence to; embolden. To hearten. The etymology of encourage is instructive - from Old French encoragier "make strong, hearten," from en- "make, put in" + corage "courage, heart". Encourage is translated in the Septuagint (Lxx) with the verb ischuo which in the aorist imperative is a command (exhortation) to those who are able to be strong in heart toward those who are exhausted. This passage is applicable to all of God's people, for even if you have nothing else to give, you can always give encouragement. (See related devotional). It may seem insignificant To say a word or two, But when it is encouragement, What wonders it can do! —K. De Haan Keil and Delitzsch - Those who have become weak in faith, hopeless and despairing, are to cheer up. (Ed: While that sounds good, that is not the likely sense of Isaiah's exhortation, for it is difficult when you are down to pull yourself up. It is far better to have someone who is stronger come alongside you and encourage and strengthen you. Matthew Henry's explanation below make more sense.) Matthew
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Ironside - When Jesus came the first time all the signs of the coming age were manifested as sickness of every form fled away at the sound of His voice or the touch of His hand; when blind eyes were opened, deaf ears made to hear and the tongues of the dumb to sing. To some extent these signs followed the preaching of His apostles who could say with authority to the lame and helpless, “In the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk,” and whose very shadow at times had healing power. All of these wonders were but foretastes of what shall be everywhere prevalent in millennial days (Isaiah 35 - MILLENNIAL BLESSING) Jennings - At that most happy epoch of the coming of their God, all those sad consequences of sin suffered by man's body, will be removed. So at the proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven as having drawn near (as it surely had in the Person of its King), samples, as we may term them, of this blessed condition were given, and wherever He came this prophecy (Isaiah 35:5-7) was illustrated, for did not the blind see, the deaf hear, and the lame leap as the hart? Surely they did. These are now the "powers of the age to come" (Heb. 6:5), and it is in that age that our prophet's feet are standing, for God the Holy Spirit can carry His servants forward any length of time, as He does our prophet John in the book that he has given us. It is a delightful scene. Everything that sin has turned up side down shall be turned back to normal, but yet not even precisely as it was; it shall over-abound in blessings. God never merely mends what Satan and sin have marred. The Paradise of God (Rev. 2:7) is not a mere Paradise recovered as it was in Eden.. Only the Tree of Life will be there; for its dwellers will be under no trial of that kind. No longer in that day shall the mirage deceive the traveler, and mock his parched lips by disappearing as he approaches, but it shall be found a springing fountain—"water, water everywhere and every drop" life-filled! Beautiful, external figure of the internal flood of blessing, in the Spirit springing up in every heart. (Isaiah 35 Commentary) Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams in the Arabah. KJV Isaiah 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. Then the lame will leap like a deer Matthew 11:5; 15:30,31; 21:14; John 5:8,9; Acts 3:2,6-8; 8:7; 14:8-10 And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy Isaiah 32:4; Ps 51:15; Matthew 9:32,33; 12:22; 15:30; Mark 7:32-37; 9:17-25; Luke 1:64; 11:14; Colossians 3:16 For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams in the Arabah. Isaiah 41:17,18; 43:19,20; 48:21; 49:10,11; Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11; Nehemiah 9:15; Ps 46:4; 78:15,16; Ezekiel 47:1-11; Zechariah 14:8; John 7:37-39; Revelation 22:1,17 LAME SHALL LEAP! MUTE SHALL SHOUT!
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Ironside - The way into God’s presence is ever the way of holiness. So in that day when men’s hearts shall be turned to the Lord, He will lead them to Himself along the highway of holiness, to Mount Zion where His throne will be established (cf Zech 8:3, Ps 9:11, 132:13, Isa 8:18) and from which His law will go forth into all the earth. Under His beneficent and righteous reign sorrow and sighing shall come to an end and joy and gladness take their place. While we who belong to the Church, the Body of Christ, have our hearts fixed on the heavenly hope, as we look for the coming of our Lord Jesus and our gathering together unto Him, we cannot but rejoice to know that God has such blessing in store for Israel His earthly people and for the nations of the earth who have been the prey of such distressing circumstances throughout their history, circumstances which they are so powerless to change. It is most humbling to man’s pride, to realize that all our boasted civilization is utterly unable to prevent war and oppression in spite of Peace Conferences, a now effete League of Nations and our present United Nations Council. Christ alone can put things right. His return is man’s only hope for lasting peace. (Isaiah 35 - MILLENNIAL BLESSING) (Bolding Added) Notice it is a highway of holiness which introduces an interesting play on words, because the Hebrew word for holiness is qodesh which is translated some 65 times as Sanctuary. Indeed this HOLY HIGH way is leading to the HOLY PLACE, the SANCTUARY, the throne of the MESSIAH. This reminds us of Isaiah's earlier prophecy Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD (THE SANCTUARY) Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:2-3+) And again Isaiah prophesies of a highway... And there will be a highway from Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt. (Isaiah 11:16+)