Isaiah 60: 1 – 22
The Comeback Kids
1Arise, shine; or your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. 5Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you. 6The multitude of camels shall cover your land, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba shall come; They shall bring gold and incense, and they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD. 7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, and I will glorify the house of My Glory. 8“Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like doves to their roosts? 9Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and to The Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you. 10“The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I have had mercy on you. 11Therefore your gates shall be open continually; They shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, and their kings in procession. 12For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly ruined. 13“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious. 14Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; And they shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations. 16You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, and milk the breast of kings; You shall know that I, The LORD, AM your Savior and your Redeemer, The Mighty One of Jacob. 17“Instead of bronze I will bring gold, instead of iron I will bring silver, instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. I will also make your officers peace, and your magistrates’ righteousness. 18Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. God the Glory of His People 19“The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; But the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended. 21Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified. 22A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. I, The LORD, will hasten it in its time.”
Why do people hate the Jews so much? I mean, have you ever taken the time to just slow down and consider why this group of people has been hated so much through time. Is it jealousy? After all they are so successful in all that they do in businesses. Is it spiritually? Why did God pick these people out of all those who dwell on the earth?
The Jewish people were selected by El Shaddai, Almighty God, because He can choose whoever He wants. He Is the Boss of all things.
I have heard many Jewish people respond that they wish God would have picked someone else. For being God’s people comes with a hefty price. If you haven’t experience this then I would be wasting my time trying to explain it because the persecution comes in all forms and ways against the Lord’s own.
But throughout all this we hold on as others before us to the promises our Great God has told us about. We have been forgiven of all our sins. We are now sons and daughters of The Creator and Sustainer of all life. And He has promised us everlasting life.
I think the greatest difficulties that we face are ‘Trust’. Even though our Holy Master has done great things for us our motto is ‘what have You done for me recently.’ So, when we face a new challenge we feel that God will not come to our rescue.
Our Holy Father has given us His word to store in our hearts so that we will not fall victim to our doubts and fears. He has shown us from the lives of His people things we need to take to heart, such as a belief that He will fulfill His promises.
When you go through the whole bible you see how the Jews, did everything to kick God out of their lives. And even though you might think you are some kind of Holy Roller, we all do the same thing. Yet, Our God Is One Of A Kind. He Is Awesome. He puts up with us bundles of dirt and just loves us back to Himself. Thank you Lord.
The Old Testament looks like God has had it with the Jewish people. And like Noah it seems like He wants to start over with a new set of people. Not so! Although we are faithless He remains faithful. Our Holy Adoni Yahweh puts it down in writing that He will restore the loving and close relationship to the ones who have met the consequences of sinning against The Pure and Holy Jehovah Elyon, The Lord Most High.
He has promised to take a people in last place, hated by the whole world, who would rather see them wiped off the face of the earth, and make them the number one team in the world again. Do you believe this? Do you think this will happen?
We all love comeback teams who are restored to prominence. In this chapter we will see Our Precious God’s declaration that this will indeed happen.
1Arise, shine; or your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.
We find here an echo of chapter 8 verses 22 through chapter 9 verse 2. Here we have a further description of the coming King. His light will descend on Zion as we have read in chapter 4 verses 5. He will come like a shining light among His own. And those who are His will respond to His light. They will see the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ as the apostle Paul points out in the book of 2 Corinthians 4.6. The Servant will be a light to them prior to becoming a light to the Gentiles. Thus will Jacob respond to Him, and Israel be gathered to Him which chapter 49 verse 6 has pointed out.
Then the people who walk in ‘darkness’, who are in gross darkness like the ‘darkness’ that covers the earth as described here, will see a great light, and the light will shine on them as we read in chapter 9 verse 2, “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
It will be the light revealed by Yahweh’s true people resulting from His having shone upon them. It was ever to be the prayer of the priests of Israel, that Yahweh would make the light of His face shine on them which is taught in the book of Numbers 6.25, “The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you”
All this was symbolized by the lamp stand in the Temple. This is an awakening call. Those who are His chosen will respond. To men in darkness there is always the possibility of arising into His light, into spiritual understanding, into truth, into awareness of Him and His glory. The people who would be of Zion must therefore awaken because the light has now come, and that light is ‘the glory of Yahweh’ which has risen on them. The world will be in darkness, the peoples in gross darkness, having the understanding darkened, being in the darkness of ignorance and despair, but on His own true people Yahweh will arise and His glory will be seen on them.
And, as chapter 9.1-7 reveals, this light will come in the child Who will be born, in the Son Who will be given, who will be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of peace. He Himself Is the glory of Yahweh arising on His people.
In Matthew chapter 4.16 the great light of Isaiah is applied to the fact that our Lord Jesus has come with the Good News. And constantly in John’s Gospel our Lord Jesus portrayed Himself in terms of a light having come.
Paul amplifies this in the New Testament when he declares in 2 Corinthians 4.4, ‘if our good news is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost, in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, shine on them’.
The constant use of ‘light’ in this way is typical of Isaiah. It is found but rarely in the other prophets.
. 3The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
The result of the coming of Yahweh Father God’s light in the child Who is to be born; in the coming of The Servant; and of the response of His people to our Adoni Yahweh’s instruction coming through Him, is that nations will come to the light of Zion, and kings to the brightness of its rising. People will seek the Lord of Heaven. And they will find Him through His people who will be like the sun rising to dispel the darkness. This will result because they carry God’s Instruction (Torah) to the world. Their light will shine before men who will see their good works as a result from their true obedience to our Holy Lord’s instruction.
‘Nations’ and ‘kings’ together represent both peoples and the authorities who are over them. This process of God’s light shining on them began among the Jewish Dispersion as Gentiles sought light in the teaching of Israel and in the Scriptures. And it continued in the coming of Jesus Christ, in which it was fulfilled even more emphatically as nations and kings did respond to the word taken out, first by John, then by the Son of God, our Lord Jesus, and then by the Jewish Christian Apostles, (the Apostles saw themselves as the true Israel going out to the world from Jerusalem) so that John in Revelation could speak of redeemed kings bringing their glory into the new Jerusalem, a new Jerusalem founded on the Apostles, and with its gates named after the tribes of Israel, and with redeemed nations walking amidst its light.
4“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. 5Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.
If you are a somewhat biblical student you will be well aware that this promise from our Most Holy Master is being fulfilled before our very eyes -‘Yours sons will come from far. The coming of their ‘children’ is described earlier in chapter 54.1-4 where the idea was of such abundance that Israel could not believe it. For Israel will be expanded by the in grafting of those of the nations who respond to the call of Yahweh as declared by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans chapter 11.13-24, “11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?”
Take a look again at the statement ‘And your daughters will be nursed on the side.’ That is borne in cradles slung in such a way that as babes they are kept safe and provided for. The emphasis is on God’s care for His people’s welfare.
Zion and God’s people will become radiant as they see the multitude of those who come to them. They will be filled with excitement, and a deep sense of satisfaction, and will be given a welcoming heart so as to receive the abundance of those who will come.
Gentiles will come bearing their riches. Zion will receive all that their hearts have looked for, the giving of tribute to Yahweh and to their King. The abundance of the seas may signify wealth such as that of the great maritime cities on the Phoenician coast, for example Tyre and Sidon, noted for scouring the seas and bringing back riches, or it may be seeing the nations as ‘the sea of nations’, a picture later regularly used to describe them. Either way it is depicting the glorious future for Zion, with its benefits rejoiced in by God’s people.
Like all people the children of Israel had to be spoken to in terms of what they could understand. Not for them was promised a Heaven above, a spiritual existence, for these would simply not have been understood (and would have been mixed up with ideas of the gods). But the glory that was to come was expressed in terms of a new Zion, a gathered people, the amassing of wealth, total security, an all-powerful world king with the nations at his feet, all that the heart dreamed of. But as we have seen, these promises were regularly put in terms that transcended earthly possibilities if applied literally. It will be the place where all are holy, where there is everlasting rejoicing, where all peoples will gather, where Yahweh will reign and His glory be revealed, where there is no light of sun and moon The idea was similar to that of the city of gold with gates of pearl founded on the Apostles as we learn in the book of Revelation chapter 21.10-27 and ‘the city that was to come’ of Abraham, whose builder and maker was God which was taught in the book of Hebrews chapter 11.10
6The multitude of camels shall cover your land, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba shall come; They shall bring gold and incense, and they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD. 7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, and I will glorify the house of My Glory.
This is but the beginning of the list of those who are seen as responding to the people of God and the new Temple of God. It first looks to the east, to the fabled wealth of Arab and related nations, the travelers of the highway who trade and bring prosperity. The Midianites were regularly found south and east of Palestine, and were infamous for their subjugation of Israel in the days of Gideon, something of which Isaiah was very much aware. Now they themselves will come in subjection and worship, bringing their wealth with them.
Ephah were east of the Persian Gulf, north east of Palestine. The combination with Midian would suggest inter-reaction between them as fellow trading nations. Sheba in the south east was famous as the place from which the Queen of Sheba came to Solomon in all his splendor, and was fabled for its wealth. Kedar in the east was renowned for wealth. Nebaioth is named together with Kedar in Assyrian records and may be the ancestors of the later Nabataeans.
And these will flock on their camels to ‘Zion’ in all its mysterious splendor bringing their riches there so as to present them before Yahweh, and telling of the triumphs of Yahweh as they speak of the wonderful things He is doing in men’s lives, ‘good news of the praises of Yahweh’. These travelling men were regularly those who carried good news (and bad news) from nation to nation. And they will bring of the abundance of their flocks and rams for offerings to Yahweh in His temple, and there those offerings will be acceptable to Him, a sign of the acceptability of those who brought them. And thus the house that contains His glory will be glorified and beautified.
The picture is one of triumph for Yahweh’s new Temple, seen as now standing, and therefore of triumph for Yahweh, and compares with 2.2-4 as the nations stream to His house. It should certainly be seen in that context, as depicting something beyond present reality, and the same may be seen as applying here.
8“Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like doves to their roosts? 9Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and to The Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.
Eyes now turn to the west, to the nations across the seas. The picture of ‘flying as the clouds’, and like white doves to their dovecotes, probably depicts the white billowing sails of the ships coming from far. The peoples of those nations, and the great ships of Tarshish (the largest ships of the day) will wait on Yahweh ready to bring back His people to Him, loaded with wealth. And it will all be for the honor of Yahweh and the glorifying of His name, and for the sake of the Holy One of Israel Who has glorified His true people.
Thus both east and west will in the future seek God, the only God, through the ministry of His people because the glory of Yahweh has risen on them. And the result will be that large numbers are added to the people of God from nations worldwide.
The continual emphasis on wealth has a twofold purpose. Firstly it reveals the true dedication of those who bring it. It is not brought to Israel, but to Yahweh. If we come to Christ without bringing Him all our wealth our coming is in vain, as the rich young ruler sadly discovered. But the wealth is not a means of obtaining salvation. It is the gift of grateful hearts because of His grace freely bestowed. And secondly it was a picture of richness of blessing for His people. It is a way of depicting fullness of blessing.
10“The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls and their kings shall minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I have had mercy on you. 11Therefore your gates shall be open continually; They shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, and their kings in procession. 12For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish and those nations shall be utterly ruined.
These words are addressed to Zion as the city of God where Yahweh dwells in His Temple on Mount Zion. They depict God’s final victory. All eyes are on Him and His service. The aim is the worldwide impact of His glory and His word. And that is what all will seek. All who respond to Him will partake of His future glory.
Throughout Israel’s history as you know the nations have attacked Jerusalem and tore down its walls. Therefore our Great God’s words bring hope and encouragement. - ‘And strangers will build up your walls, and their kings will minister to you.’ There is a contrast here with nations knocking down its walls. Instead of alien nations coming to batter down Zion’s walls, they will come as its servants to build them because they will want to glorify Yahweh.
God’s people will watch in wonder as nations and kings come to serve our Holy God and Ruler Instead of war there will be peace, and all will seek to uphold that peace.
Earlier Isaiah has stated that the stranger who has joined himself to Yahweh will have equal part in the worship of Yahweh (56.3-8). We are probably therefore justified in seeing these strangers as such worshippers, for the building of the walls is in order to ensure the peace and safety of the city, part of their service for Yahweh. Thus the thought is that ‘strangers’ and their kings have been conjoined with Yahweh, and with the people of God in the city of God, and share with them the task of ensuring the safety of the city and of the service of Yahweh. Here we have God’s universal people described. They have become one with Zion.
If you have ever experienced the discipline of the Lord, then I suggest that you write this down and post it where you can see it daily - ‘For in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.’ And this will be because Yahweh has revealed His favor towards His chosen place which reflects His elect people. Having first had to smite them in His wrath, as previously described by Isaiah, He is now revealing His mercy and grace, and multiplying them as He promised.
Indeed the gates of Zion will be constantly open so that the wealth of the nations may pour in both day and night, and their kings will come in submission, whether gladly or otherwise. This also indicates the perfect safety of the city. It has no need to close the gates for it is protected by Yahweh, and they need to be constantly open because of the fullness of God’s provision. There will be a constant stream of traffic. The wealth of the nations is not, however, coming in order to make the people rich (that was the mistake made in some later interpretations). It is coming to the city of God in order to be offered to Him. All submission and homage will be to Him and to His anointed King. It is tribute to Him. It is His wealth.
Look at how the nations will come to worship The Lord of Lords and King of kings, -‘Their kings led along.’ They are led along by their people in triumphant procession because they are welcome there. The kings are seen as coming to Yahweh, bringing not danger, but submission and worship.
‘That nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, those nations will be utterly wasted.’ The basic principle is that those nations and kingdoms that do not contribute to the welfare of God’s Zion, and do not submit themselves to Him, will be destroyed. Again we are reminded that this Zion is the place where God Is worshipped, and where He has gathered His people, and to which the nations have streamed in response to the word of God, and where His king rules
We may see as a comparison how ‘the whole world’ came to Solomon in Jerusalem (1 Kings 10.24) seeking his wisdom. That was a fore-glimpse of this picture. It was he who received the tribute, the people shared in his reflected glory. It was to him that every knee bowed. So here it is to Zion as The Servant, our Lord Jesus Christ that the peoples come in obeisance, bringing their wealth. They are coming in submission to Yahweh and His great representative, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
13“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious.
The point here is that just as Solomon’s Temple was built from the trees of Lebanon so will it be again. But this time the providers will come gladly because of their love for Yahweh. There will be no charge for the supply here, and they will provide the very finest. The desire of all will be to make God’s dwelling place beautiful and glorious, for it is His holy place, the place where He puts His feet (His footstool). It is His place of contact with man
14Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; And they shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
We note that the subservience is due to what the city is in relation to our Holy Yahweh. In chapter 49.23 we see the comparison where the point is that those who had demanded Israel’s obeisance would now bow down to them. However, it is reasonable to assume that this is because of the status they will have as priests of Yahweh. It is because it is the place where Yahweh is that they will bow down, so in reality it is before Yahweh that they will bow down in order to receive His verdict on them. The oppressors, those who have badly treated God’s people, will find themselves called to account. But those who are there, who have borne their suffering because they were His people, will have the satisfaction of seeing their former oppressors having to submit to God, the Holy One. All rebellion will be over and God will be all in all.
15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations. 16You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, and milk the breast of kings; You shall know that I, The LORD, AM your Savior and your Redeemer, The Mighty One of Jacob.
Jerusalem represents the centre where God Is seen to be with His Servant, The Lord Jesus Christ, and includes the people who as a result of God’s active grace have sought His face and found forgiveness and mercy. And as we have seen above and elsewhere they include among them people from many nations, ‘strangers’. It represents the faithful in Israel. It includes all who have responded to Yahweh. And it must include all who have been raised from the dust. It represents all those incorporated into the Israel of God from wherever they come (Galatians 6.16). Thus it portrays the called out and chosen people of God through many generations (Galatians 4.26,31; Hebrews 12.22), both the old and New Testament churches. It is the multitude which no man can number (Revelation 7.9).
This new Zion, once forsaken and hated and avoided by men, will be given everlasting Excellency, it will be the joy of the people of many generations. The nations and kings will see that it is amply supplied with nourishment and with good things. There may also be the suggestion that its very inhabitants will be fed by nations and by kings for they will know that Yahweh is their Savior and Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
‘You will also suck the milk of the nations, and you will suck the breast of kings.’ here is a clear example that Isaiah is not speaking literally. They would not get much milk from the breasts of kings! But the idea is of maternal care and provision which they will enjoy from nations and kings, including the cup of cold water in His name, as all become one with God and with His people. This may partly represent care from those who have conjoined with them in the new Israel, as the Gentiles flock to Christ
17“Instead of bronze I will bring gold, instead of iron I will bring silver, instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. I will also make your officers peace, and your magistrates’ righteousness. 18Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. God the Glory of His People
The catalogue of perfection for the New Jerusalem continues. There will be an upgrade to gold and silver instead of bronze and iron; bronze and iron instead of wood and stones. All will be better than it has ever been before. Peace will be its overseers and righteousness its exactors, that is, it will be controlled in all things by peace and righteousness, and as they enjoy and delight in both of these, their ‘subjection’ will be their joy.
There will be no more violence, no more desolation, and no more destruction. All the forces of disorder and chaos will be gone. They will be guarded by the walls of salvation, and shut in by the gates of praise. Peace, righteousness, salvation and praise will be their inheritance. A wondrous city indeed is this.
19“The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; But the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended
There is no need of sun or moon like we learn in the book of Revelation 21.23 for Adoni Yahweh, Father God, will be our everlasting light, and our God will be our glory. He will be our sun and moon, thus the lights of sun and moon will no more go down or in some way hide themselves. There will always be light, for Yahweh Himself will be our everlasting light, and all our days of mourning will be over. The new earth that Isaiah envisages is nothing like any previous earth.
In the old world the sun and moon ruled day and night and determined times and seasons. But now God has replaced both sun and moon. All is now determined by Him. There will be everlasting light from Him, all that is needed for the heart of man. And there will be no more sorrows and no more tears. The picture is again one of perfection. Instead of depending on creaturely supply, all we need will come directly from the Source of all things.
21Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified. 22A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. I, The LORD, will hasten it in its time.”
And this will be reflected in the people. Everyone will be righteous. All of us believers will be the branch which He has planted, the work of His hands.
They are the branches that come from the Branch. And they will inherit the everlasting land for ever - All with a view to Yahweh’s glory. Even the smallest planting will become a thousand; the tiniest will become a strong nation. It is a picture of fruitfulness and blessing, the Israelite ideal. And Yahweh will hasten this on once the set time comes.
So as we come to the end of this description of the future of God’s ‘Jerusalem’, of that ‘portion’ which He has set apart for Himself and which He has peopled with His own people, of that which sums up the future of His true people through the ages, culminating in the everlasting glory, we have Isaiah’s picture of the ideal future. We see in it his attempt, in the light of the limitations of his day, to portray the eternal triumph and the eternal glory. But Who will bring all this about? The answer is found in ‘the Anointed One’.
