I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. And In Those Higher Qualities – Living The Love Of Our “Mighty I AM Presence” – Allowing The Light Of The Living God To Radiate Through Our Beings; A Love So Smooth And Easy… So Quiet And Gentle… Yet Mighty And Powerful… When Used With Purpose And Intention… Not Only Transforms And Raises Up Individuals Consciously… In Turn Vibrationally; But Just Simply And Sincerely Existing As The Love Of Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”… And Radiating That Love Wherever We Journey… Can Transform And Raise All God’s Children And Creation… To The Heights Of Heaven… While Living… When We Choose… To Sincerely Radiate… Those Higher Qualities. Amen… 🤗💜💜💜
Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life… 🙏🏾💞
And Y’all Be Love… 💗💗💗
“… Now it is here promised, That Christianity shall be openly preached and professed; it shall be prepared (so the margin reads it) in the top of the mountains, in the view and hearing of all. Hence Christ’s disciples are compared to a city on a hill, which cannot be hid, (Matthew 5:14). They had many eyes upon them. Christ himself spoke openly to the world, (John 18:20). What the apostles did was not done in a corner, (Acts 26:26). It was the lighting of a beacon, the setting up of a standard. Its being everywhere spoken against supposes that it was everywhere spoken of. That it shall be firmly fixed and rooted, it shall be established on the top of the everlasting mountains, built upon a rock, so that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, unless they could pluck up mountains by the roots. He that dwells safely is said to dwell on high, (Isaiah 33:16).
… “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, though it be uphill and against the heart, yet it is the mountain of the Lord, who will assist the assent of our souls towards him.”
Note. Those that are entering into covenant and communion with God themselves should bring as many as they can along with them. It becomes Christians to provoke one another to good works, and to further the communion of saints by inviting one another into it, not, “You go up to the mountain of the Lord, and pray for us, and we will stay at home”; nor, “We will go, and you do as you will”; but, “Come and let us go, let us go in concert, that we may strengthen one another’s hands and support one another’s reputation”; not, “We will consider of it, and advise about it, and go hereafter”; but, Come, and let us go forthwith.
… Now see here, (1) What they promise themselves in going up to the mountain of the Lord: There he will teach us of his ways.
Note. God’s ways are to be learned in his church, in communion with his people, and in the use of instituted ordinances – the ways of duty which he requires us to walk in, the ways of grace in which he walks towards us. It is God that teaches his people by his word and Spirit. It is worth while to take pains to go up to his holy mountain to be taught his ways, and those who are willing to take that pain shall never find it labour in vain. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.
(2) What they promise for themselves and one another: “If he will teach us his ways, we will walk in his paths; if he will let us know our duty, we will by his grace make conscience of doing it.” Those who attend God’s word with this humble resolution, shall not be sent away without their lesson.
The means by which this shall be brought about. Out of Zion shall go forth the law, the New Testament Law, the Law of Christ, as of old the Law of Moses from Mount Sinai, even the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. The gospel is a law, a law of faith, it is the word of the Lord, it went forth from Zion, where the temple was built, and from Jerusalem. Christ himself began in Galilee, (Matthew 4:23). But when he commissioned his apostles to preach the gospel to all nations, he appointed them to begin in Jerusalem, (Luke 24:47). Though most of them had their homes in Galilee, yet they must stay at Jerusalem there to receive the promise of the Spirit, (Acts 1:4). And in the temple on Mount Zion they preached the gospel, (Acts 5:20). This honour was allowed to Jerusalem, even after Christ was crucified there, for the sake of what it had been. And it was by this gospel, which took rise from Jerusalem, that the gospel church was established on the top of the mountains. This was the rod of divine strength, that was sent forth out of Zion, (Psalms 110:2).
The erecting of the Kingdom of the Redeemer in the world. He shall judge among the nations, He whose word goes forth out of Zion shall by that word not only subdue souls to himself, but rule in them, (Isaiah 2:4). He shall, in wisdom and justice, order and overrule the affairs of the world for the good of his church, and rebuke and restrain those that oppose his interest. By his Spirit working on men’s consciences, he shall judge and rebuke, shall try men and check them.
His Kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world. … Come then, and let us live accordingly. Whatever others do, come, O come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. Let us walk circumspectly in the light of this knowledge. Will God teach us his ways? Will he show us his glory in the face of Christ? Let us then walk as children of the light and of the day, (Ephesians 5:8). Let us walk comfortably in the light of this peace. Shall there be no more war? Let us then go on our way rejoicing, and let this joy terminate in God, and be our strength, (Nehemiah 8:10). Thus, shall we walk in the beams of the Sun of Righteousness.
… To startle and awaken secure sinners, who cry peace to themselves, and bid defiance to God and his judgments, (Isaiah 2:10): “Enter into the rock. God will attack you with such terrible judgments, and strike you with such terrible apprehensions of them, that you shall be forced to enter into the rock, and hide yourself in the dust, for fear of the Lord. You shall lose all your courage, and tremble at the shaking of a leaf, your heart shall fail you for fear, (Luke 21:26); and you shall flee when none pursues”, (Proverbs 28:1). To the same purport, (Isaiah 2:19). They shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, the darkest the deepest places; they shall call to the rocks and mountains to fall on them, and rather crush them than not cover them, (Hosea 10:8). It was so particularly at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, (Luke 23:30), and of the persecuting pagan powers, (Revelation 6:16). And all, for fear of the Lord, and of the glory of his majesty, looking upon him then to be a consuming fire and themselves as stubble before him, when he arises to shake terribly the earth, to shake the wicked out of it, (Job 38:13), and to shake all those earthly props and supports with which they have buoyed themselves up, to shake them from under them.
Note. (1) With God is terrible majesty, and the glory of it is such, as sooner or later will oblige us all to flee before him. (2) Those that will not fear God and flee to him will be forced to fear him and flee from him to a refuge of lies. (3) It is folly for those that are pursued by the wrath of God to think to escape it, and to hide or shelter themselves from it. (4) The things of the earth are things that will be shaken; they are subject to concussions, and hastening towards a dissolution. (5) The shaking of the earth is, and will be a terrible thing to those who set their affections wholly on things of the earth. (6), It will be in vain to think of finding refuge in the caves of the earth when the earth itself is shaken. There will be no shelter then, but in God and in things above.
… To humble and abase proud sinners, that look big, and think highly of themselves, and scornfully of all about them, (Isaiah 2:11), The lofty looks of man shall be humbled. The eyes that aim high, the countenance in which the pride of the heart shows itself, shall be cast down in shame and despair. And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, their spirits shall be broken, and they shall be crestfallen, and those things which they were proud of, they shall be ashamed of. It is repeated, (Isaiah 2:17), The loftiness of man shall be bowed down.
Note. Pride will, one way or other, have a fall. Men’s haughtiness will be brought down, either by the grace of God convincing them of the evil of their pride, and clothing them with humility, or by the providence of God depriving them of all those things they were proud of and laying them low. Our Saviour often laid it down for a maxim that, he who exalts himself shall be abased; he shall either abase himself in true repentance, or God will abase him and pour contempt upon him. Now here we are told why this shall be done. Because the Lord alone will be exalted.
Note. Proud men shall be vilified because the Lord alone will be magnified. It is for the honour of God’s power to humble the proud, by this he proves himself to be God, and disproves Job’s pretensions to rival with him, (Job 40:11-14). Behold everyone that is proud and abase him, then will I also confess unto you. It is likewise for the honour of his justice. Proud men stand in competition with God, who is jealous for his own glory, and will not suffer men either to take to themselves or give to another that which is due to him only. They likewise stand in opposition to God; they resist him, and therefore he resists them; for he will be exalted among the heathen, (Psalms 46:10). And there is a day coming in which he alone, will be exalted, when he shall have put down all opposing rule, principality, and power. (1 Corinthians 15:24).”
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible: Isaiah 2:1-10, by Matthew Henry, 1706
