138 Isaiah Prayer

Having described at length in the previous chapter the wonders performed for Israel throughout its history, Isaiah concludes with a heartrending prayer that God would once again have mercy on His people, despite their low spiritual state. Isaiah begins with a poetic description of God’s awesome power. The passage begins with the pleading for the Lord to come down and let the nations realize His presence. He implores the Lord to assert His power over the nations. The full prophetic scope of this prayer looks forward in time which embraces the dark time of the Tribulation. This will be when Israel’s enemies (and the Lord’s Psalm 2:1-3) attack them and they cry out pleading for help by the Lord. Isaiah pleads for divine help. The remnant’s cry was that The Lord would rend (tear open) the heavens, which had seemed as solidly closed as brass, and come down to deliver them (Exodus 19:18; Psalms 18:9; 144:5; Micah 1:3-4; 3:13). That is exactly what Christ will do at His glorious second advent. This will occur in answer to this prayer (Matthew 23:39), which is the vision in response to their prayer begging Him to make His departure from Heaven with the saints and angels, ready to smash all the Gentile world powers, headed up by the Antichrist (Daniel 2:34-35).

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