God Did Say! Series

As we begin I want to point out how Great and Big Is our God. He Is A Blessed Holy Trinity. He Is One God of Three Equal and Same Unified Holy Ones Father [Yahweh], Son of God, Lamb of God, Master, King, Lord, and Savior [Yeshua] Jesus Christ, and Precious Holy Spirit, Adoni Holy Ghost. He Is Omnipotent [All Powerful], Omnipresent [Everywhere], and Omniscient [All Knowing]. He Is So Big that the earth with we think is huge is just His footstool.

I want you to copy what I just said about our Holy El Shaddai – Almighty God and think about it each day from now on. It will not be that time consuming on you. It will however keep your heart and mind focused.

The book of Isaiah ends where it began in facing men up to our Adoni Yahweh, and denouncing their formality in religious ritual. We note that like the first five chapters all the emphasis is now on our Holy God and Father Yahweh. The coming King, the coming Servant, the coming Redeemer, The One through Whom Yahweh will do His work, has been described in different ways in the main part of the book, but now the main focus is back again on Yahweh alone as at the beginning.

The chapter summarizes many themes of the book as it leads up to the final triumph of Yahweh. Warnings against formality and inclusivity in worship, the coming of the divine King, deliverance for His own, the establishment of the New Jerusalem, the judgment of the unrighteous, the condemnation of Canaanite religion, the gathering of the Gentiles, the return of the exiles, the new heavens and the new earth and the universal worship of Yahweh Who reigns over all, both the living and the dead.

1 Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? 2 For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist,” says the LORD. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word.

As Isaiah approaches the climax of the book he makes clear the basis on which all that he has said must be judged and interpreted. All must be interpreted in the light of one great fact, that Yahweh is not limited to an earthly Mount Zion, nor to an earthly dwelling place. Heaven is His throne, earth is His footstool, He Is over all, He spans all, He Is the Creator of all. He rules the heavens; the earth is subject to Him. Thus no house can be built that can contain Him, there is no house that can be sufficient for Him to find rest in. Everything has been made by His hand, and that is how they came to be. Thus He is too great to be limited to a tiny house in one part of His creation, even the temple on Mount Zion.

The prophet Isaiah wants all to recognize that the concept of Zion as Yahweh’s Dwelling place is not to be seen as putting any limits on Him. His dwelling in Zion is as the One Who Is above all things.

In His greatness God does have some on whom He will fix His eyes in love, those who are of a poor and contrite spirit, those who recognize their nothingness and the true state of their own spirits as lamed and limping, and who tremble at His word, because they recognize Him for what He Is, the High and Lofty One Who inhabits the everlasting (57.15). And because they worship Him, they want to serve Him, weak though they are. Isaiah understood this for he too had seen himself like this when he had seen the revelation of God in the earthly temple (chapter 6), and had humbly and tremblingly responded in offering himself for service