The Road to Jesus Leads to Jerusalem
The United Nations building in NYC has a stone engraving outside that bears Isaiah’s description from 2:4. Of course, the UN has done very little to bring about peace. We have had and still have wars and bloodshed because neither the UN nor the USA can bring about lasting peace. Only the Prince of Peace can do that but He will not do that except as men humbly submit to His rule. Open your Scriptures to Isaiah 2:1-4.
The expression “in the latter days” (Isaiah 2:2) seems to pick up on Genesis 49:1, 10 and moves that prophecy (of the King from Judah) forward. This idea of “obedience of the peoples” is found here, in Isaiah 2, and in Micah 4:1. Another point might be made… The “mountain of the house of the Lord” (2:2) is certainly a reference to the temple (see also Isaiah 66:20).
What we have here, then, is a portrait of a new temple, a spiritual temple that was going to be established in Jerusalem to which would flow the nations in order to learn the ways of the God of heaven. Jesus, of course, is the temple of God (John 2:19-22) and His body, the church, is His temple by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:19-22).
As you already know, this prophecy of blessing has already been fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. Peter quotes Joel 2:28-32 in Acts 2:17ff but he begins that quotation by quoting the first few words of Isaiah 2:2: “In the last days.” The “word of God” or “word of the Lord” is found twenty plus times in Acts, with its roots here in Isaiah 2. Also at key points in the book of Acts as the church spreads and souls are saved, Luke highlights the power of the “word of God:” 6:7; 12:24; 19:20.
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What Isaiah 2 also indicates, as the “nations” are streaming to Jerusalem, is that we have Gentiles becoming spiritual Israelites (see Romans 2:28-29; Galatians 6:16). Also, observe the phrases “house of the Lord” in verse 2, “house of the God of Jacob” in verse 3, and “house of Jacob” in verses 5 & 6. Write down in your margin Luke 1:33, 69 which show us that Jesus would reign over the “house of Jacob” which is an equivalent term to the “house of David,” which is, of course, the church of Christ.
So, it was on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit guided Peter and the other apostles to begin preaching and teaching the Law of Christ that the reign and rule of King Jesus, the Prince of Peace, began.
Today, we are operating under the fulfillment of this prophecy. As the nations stream to Jerusalem to learn from Jesus, they can walk in His ways.
–Paul Hollad
