Isaiah 2

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Isaiah 2:1-22 (KJV)

 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 

Isaiah speaks again.  He speaks the Word of God.

2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

God will rule over the majority.  All mountains will be beneath Him.

The human mountain

The wealth mountain

The poverty mountain

All mountains will submit to God.

 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from 

Jerusalem. 

There will be many people who will submit to the will of God.  God goes further to do all he can to save us.  He sent us His Son, He sent us His Word and He will send us Jesus once more to show us what our Father expects of us.  This is more than anyone can ask for.  He is bending over backward to save us.  What kind of love is this.

4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 

All people of every nation will be judged.  Jesus will show us our wrongs and show us what our Father has never and will never tolerate.  He will show us what He will not accept and rebuke us for doing what we knew we should have not been doing.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. 

6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 

We walked away from God and He allowed us.  It breaks God's heart to watch go after all the things we were not designed to have.  We went into an evil nation and brought back their culture and took children who knew nothing of God and showed them evil conducts and they practiced those conducts and they never met or knew of the true and living God. 

7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots: 

They had military force and trusted in themselves.  There was plenty of money and life seemed good.  When we count upon mass weapons of destruction we waste time.  God looks down on us and waits for us to look up to Him.  We start wars and we have no earthly idea of what we are doing to ourselves.

8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 

We make homemade idols/gods of wood.  We worship idol music, clubs, building with God's name but lack the presence of His Word.

9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. 

When common people see people of power bow down, they think within themselves, I must bow too.  Mean men and great men are called because they have no reverence for God's Word even though they have influence.

10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 

People will run when they see the beauty of God.  For example:  if you mistreated a person and they showed you, unfailing love, by helping you and going beyond the call of duty to help you and you know you did them wrong; this is how it will be when we see Love unfeigned with our own eyes.  We won't be able to stand the presence of that kind of love.  God told us it will be as He said and we will see every Word He spoke just like He said it would be.

11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 

12 For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 

13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 

14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up, 

15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 

16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Every single thing man lifted up and made gods of will be made low.

Every rich man, wealthy man,  famous man, educated man; every big house, big building, all expensive things, and every strong nation; everything that caused a man to look at it rather than God will be made low.

 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 

God will abolish everything man-made idol to worship. 

19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 

People will run like rodents trying to find a hiding place.  People will fear the Living God.

20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 

People will destroy the gods they made.  How much they paid for them will not matter.  They will care nothing for what they once thought they could not live without.

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 

Listen, if we do not obey God, we will do exactly these things He spoke through the prophet Isaiah.

22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

The most powerful thing that man owns is his breath.  If God stops the breath, then what?  Stop fearing men.