Isaías 35
Thomas Constable · Citado em PreceptAustin
Isaías 35
Constable - Those who are alive at the end of the Tribulation will be a small remnant of believers and some unbelievers (ED: see Remnant of Israel). Isaiah called the reader to encourage the exhausted and feeble believers of his or her time. They would need to keep their eyes on God. God would come to take vengeance for them and to deliver them (cf. Dt. 31:6–7, 23+; Josh. 1:6–7, 9, 18+; Rev. 13:9-10+; Rev 14:12+). He would reward them; they will enter Messiah’s millennial kingdom. (Isaiah 35 Commentary) (Ed: So who enters the Millennial Kingdom? ONLY redeemed people. One third of Israel will have been redeemed (Zech 13:8-9+) and an unknown [I cannot find any Scripture on this] number of Gentiles who have been redeemed. So saved Jews and saved Gentiles will be the only ones allowed into Messiah's Kingdom. Now, in that Kingdom, life will continue and children will be born, but we know that not all come to believe in Messiah even though He is actually present in Jerusalem! How do we know? Because of Rev 20:8+ which says that when Satan is released at the end of the 1000 years, he "will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore." Obviously those Satan deceives are non-believers, not the redeemed.) Recompense (01576)(gemul from gamal = to deal fully or adequately with, deal out to, wean, ripen) is a masculine noun which means recompense, benefits, something deserved, dealings, doings. Gemul indicates the dealings with others (Jdg. 9:16). The dealing of a nation or person returns on them (Ps. 28:4; Pr. 12:14; Isa. 3:11; Oba 1:15). Gemul refers to a receipt which is deserved whether the recipient accepts it or returns it (Joel 3:4, 7). It speaks of the recompense of the Lord (Ps. 28:4; Isa. 35:4; 66:6). Ps. 103:2 says "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits (recompense, reward; Lxx = antapodosis = reward) The Septuagint (Lxx) translates gemul in this passage with antapodidomi which means to repay or give back, and in this context speaks primarily of payback in a negative sense, in which God will mete out deserved punishment and revenge on the inveterate enemies of the little nation of Israel. They will experience payday someday! (Isaiah 40:9) Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!” 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him (REWARD FOR THE REMNANT) and His recompense before Him. Matthew
Isaías 35
Constable comments that "While what Isaiah described here parallels to a limited extent the Jews’ return from Babylonian captivity, the context of the chapter as well as its terminology point to a fulfillment in the future that the return only prefigured. Another foreview was the streaming of pilgrims to Jerusalem from all over the world to celebrate the annual feasts of Judaism. Amillennialists interpret this chapter as depicting the blessings that would come to the church through the first advent of Christ (cf. John 16:33)." (Isaiah 35 Commentary) No lion will be there Nor will any vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found there - In ancient Palestine lions and other predators were common and they and other wild animals made traveling dangerous. As an aside one "lion" that praise God will not be there is our old "adversary, the devil, (who) prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." (1 Pet 5:8+). The apostle John tells us why writing at the beginning of the Millennium... I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. (Rev 20:1-3+) But - Thank the Lord for this blessed term of contrast. We whose sins were once as scarlet, by the blood of the Lamb have been made as white as snow (cf Isa 1:18+). Jesus has paid the toll fee that we may forever walk on the highway of holiness to Zion! Praise His Holy Name! A HIGHWAY ONLY FOR THE REDEEMED The redeemed will walk there - Those who have been bought with the price of Messiah's precious blood, Jew and Gentile, men and women, all who have gained entry into the earthly Kingdom of God (See commentary on Luke 17:20 that addresses the question of when is the Kingdom of God coming?) by grace through faith. Redeemed (01350)(goel/ga'al - see in depth study) means to buy back or out of bondage (in OT literal slavery, spiritually speaking slavery to Sin and Satan). Of the 83 uses of ga'al in the OT, 18 are translated as our Redeemer. Christ is our Goel or Kinsman-Redeemer. (See study of Goel -- Kinsman Redeemer) Redeemed is translated in the Septuagint (Lxx) with the verb lutroo which means to free another by paying a ransom price. As alluded to above, the price for a life was blood, for the life is in the blood (Lev 17:11+) and only the blood of a spotless Lamb, the Lamb of God (Jn 1:29+), could perfectly and forever atone for our sins (cf Heb 9:22, 25+, Heb 10:4-9+, Heb 10:10+)! Hallelujah What a Savior! or this version. Motyer - Redeemed (gā’al), appearing here for the first of twenty-four times in Isaiah, stresses the person of the redeemer, his relationship to the redeemed and his intervention on their behalf. The participle gō’ēl is the technical term for the next-of-kin who has the right to take his helpless relative’s needs as his own (Lv. 25:25; Nu. 5:8), and is often used of the ‘avenger’ of a murdered person. This is a good indication of the substitutionary nature of the relationship (the one being dead, the other taking over and acting; Nu. 35:12; Dt. 19:6). In its classical expression the work of ‘redeemer’ was a right which no other dare usurp (Ru. 3:12; 4:1–6). It was a right rather than an inescapable duty, calling for willingness. It speaks here, therefore, of the Lord as the only one who can redeem his people, identifying with them as their next-of-kin, willingly shouldering, on their helpless behalf and in their place, all and every one of their needs, paying their price (Lv. 27:13, 19, 31).(See The Prophecy of Isaiah) Redeemed (goel/ga'al) in Isaiah - Notice the prevalence of the truth about redemption in the last one third of Isaiah's prophecy, the "Comfort of God" (see chart above) - Isa. 35:9; Isa. 41:14; Isa. 43:1; Isa. 43:14; Isa. 44:6; Isa. 44:22; Isa. 44:23; Isa. 44:24; Isa. 47:4; Isa. 48:17; Isa. 48:20; Isa. 49:7; Isa. 49:26; Isa. 51:10; Isa. 52:3; Isa. 52:9; Isa. 54:5; Isa. 54:8; Isa. 59:20; Isa. 60:16; Isa. 62:12; Isa. 63:9; Isa. 63:16 And remember that the redeemed will be indwelt by the Holy Spirit enabling them to walk on the Highway of holiness.. “For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. 25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. 28 “You will live in the land (THIS REFERS ESPECIALLY TO THE TIME OF THE MILLENNIUM) that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God. (Ezek. 36:24–28+). Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. KJV Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. And the ransomed of the LORD will return Isaiah 51:10,11; Matthew 20:28; 1 Timothy 2:6 And come with joyful shouting to Zion Ps 84:7; Jeremiah 31:11-14; 33:11; John 16:22; Jude 1:21; Revelation 14:1-4; Revelation 15:2-4; 18:20; 19:1-7 And sorrow and sighing will flee away Isaiah 25:8; 30:19; 60:20; 65:19; Revelation 7:9-17; 21:4 THE GOAL OF THE JOURNEY ON THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS Isaiah repeats this verse in Isaiah 51:11 - this reiterates the goal of the pilgrim travelers and the success of their journey. W E Vine comments "The whole passage closes with a promise, which is repeated in Isaiah 51:11, the assurance marking both parts of the book with the same message of comfort." So the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, And everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. Jennings - This brings us to the ending of the first main division of our book. Blessed, oh, how blessed, for us that the end of all ways with His people is, as here, always one of blessing. To Him—three Persons, one God—be glory now and forever. (Isaiah 35 Commentary) J
Isaías 35
Constable writes that verse 10 "not only climaxes chapter 35 but also the whole section of Isaiah dealing with God’s sovereignty over the nations (chs. 13–35). (Isaiah 35 Commentary) Oswalt - adds that Isaiah 7–12 posed a question: ‘Is God Sovereign of the nations?’ Can God deliver from an Assyria? Or is he just one more of the gods, waiting to be gobbled up by a bigger god? In short, can God be trusted? Chs. 13–35 have sought to answer that question in four main sections: chs. 13–23; 24–27; 28–33; 34–35. In the first, God’s lordship over each of the nations is asserted. In the second, it is shown that God is not merely the reactor to the nations, but is in fact the sovereign Actor on the world’s stage. In the third, the superiority of God’s counsel over that of the merely human leaders is shown. Finally, the last two chapters show the ultimate results of the two courses of action, with Isaiah 35 ending at exactly the same point as Isaiah 11–12, with the promise that God can, and will, redeem. He may be trusted. However, the issue remains: is this merely abstraction or can it become concrete reality? Ahaz had proved that the nations cannot be trusted. But what of God? Can his trustworthiness be demonstrated or only asserted? Must his promises for the distant future be clung to blindly or can an earnest of their reality be experienced now? This is what Isaiah 36–39 are about.” (The Book of Isaiah - NICOT) Midrash Rabbah, Exodus XXIII, 11.… But in the Messianic Age, there will no longer be any troubles, for it says, Because the former troubles are forgotten (Isa. LXV, 16), and They shall obtain gladness and joy (ib. XXXV, 10). Obsolete by Richard DeHaan Read: Isaiah 35 - The ransomed of the Lord . . . shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. —Isaiah 35:10 Pastor and author Joseph Parker (1830-1902) commented about the closing words of Isaiah 35:10, “Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” He said, “Looking through the dictionary, you will occasionally come across a word marked ‘obsolete.’ The time is coming when the two words sorrow and sighing shall be obsolete. The things which mar life here and now will then belong to the past.” Human existence has been marked by tragedy, heartache, disappointment, and evil. It’s comforting to know that the time is coming when sorrow and death will pass away, and God Himself will wipe all tears from our eyes. Then we will experience the truth that “the former things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4). Are you burdened today by some seemingly insurmountable problem? Are you lonely, heartbroken, and disappointed? If you are a child of God, dwell on this reassuring thought: “The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18+). A brighter day is coming when words such as sighing, death, and tears will all be obsolete. God's tomorrow is a day of gladness, And its joys shall never fade; No more weeping, no more sense of sadness, No more foes to make afraid. —Ackley Heaven—no pain, no night, no death, no tears.