Israel’s Coming Age – It’s Coronation

Pastor Bill Farrow

Isaiah 2:2b

“…That the mountain of the LORD’S house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.”

The mountain of the Lord’s house - The temple was built on mount Moriah, which was hence called the mountain of the Lord’s house. The temple, or the mountain on which it was reared, would be the object which would express the public worship of the true God. And hence, to say that that should be elevated higher than all other hills, or mountains, means, that the worship of the true God would become an object so conspicuous as to be seen by all nations; and so conspicuous that all nations would forsake other objects and places of worship, being attracted by the glory of the worship of the true God.  We might also see the poetic aspect of this statement as well.  Daniel spoke of the coming Kingdom of Christ as a great mountain that grew to fill the earth.  What is certainly in view here is the Kingdom of Christ, not in its invisible sense, as we see it manifest now, but in its visible and overt sense, which we will see at that final day.  It is then that the Mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains!  Christ’s Kingdom, long prophesied and long awaited shall arise and exert itself over all the kingdoms of men.  We learn some things about that Kingdom from the following phrases.

Shall be established – The Kingdom, as it appears then, shall be fixed, rendered permanent.  it shall never pass away after the time that it is established.  Once again we are forced to note that this is not a reference to the invisible Kingdom, it cannot be, for that invisible Kingdom was already present in Isaiah’s day and could not be said to be yet future then.  No, this must refer to a yet future, literal rule of Christ, as King on earth.  That rulership, once enacted, will never end.

In the top of the mountains - To be in the top of the mountains, would be to be “conspicuous,” or seen from afar. In other words, the Kingdom would be made known to all people.  It will be a public and conspicuous rule.  It will not be hidden or secret.  It will not be visible only to a few, or to a select group.  It will not be dependent on a set of circumstances or any specific set of criteria to be seen or understood.  It will be conspicuous and very, very visible to all men.

Shall flow unto it—This is a figurative expression, denoting that they drawn to the true religion. It indicates that they would come in multitudes, like the flowing of a mighty river. The idea of the “flowing” of the nations, or of the movement of many people toward an object like a broad stream, is one that is very grand and sublime; (compare Ps. 65:7). This cannot be understood of any period previous to the establishment of the gospel, and from our point of view, from any time period previous to this one!. At no time of the Jewish history did any events occur that would be a complete fulfillment of this prophecy. The expressions evidently refer to that period elsewhere often predicted by this prophet (Isa. 11:10; 42:1, 6; 49:22; 54:3; 60:3, 5, 10; 62:2; 66:12, 19), when “the Gentiles” would be brought to the knowledge of the true religion. In Isa. 66:12, there occurs a passage remarkably similar, and which may serve to explain this:

‘Behold I will extend peace to her (to Zion) as a river;

And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.’

Under the Messiah, through the preaching of the apostles and by the spread of the gospel, this prophecy was to receive a grand accomplishment, but the full accomplishment yet awaits the time of the end when the Lord will draw all men, like a mighty river, to Christ.