12/18/20 WHAT’S NEW? #4 — Isaiah 62:2 (HCSB) Nations will see your righteousness and all kings, your glory. You will be CALLED BY A NEW NAME that the LORD’s mouth will announce.

Most of chapters 1-35 of the book of Isaiah involve God’s declaring His frustration with the faithlessness of His people, His rejection of them and His plans to remove them from the Holy Land. He predicts that other nations will regard them as a humiliated, rejected, useless people.

But in the last third of the book, Isaiah the prophet describes the character and mission of the Messiah—Who is the Conquering King AND the Suffering Servant. Then God promises to remember His covenants He made with Abraham, Moses, David and so on. Eventually, someday in the future, God will restore His people to their former position at the head of the nations of the earth. And their enemies will no longer refer to them with the slurs of the past. Because of God’s intervention, they will have a NEW reputation, indeed, a NEW NAME.

When our politicians, celebrities, news anchors, and even neighbors say awful things about Christians, let’s remember that God promises to set ALL things right someday, (hopefully) SOON!