Isaiah 60:21

‘Your people also will be all righteous,

They will inherit the land for ever,

The branch of my planting, the work of my hands,

That I may be glorified.

The little one will become a thousand,

And the small one a strong nation,

I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.'

And this will be reflected in the people. They will be righteous, all of them. They will be the branch which He has planted, the work of His hands. Compare for the branch Isaiah 11:1 and John 15:1. They are the branches that come from the Branch. And they will inherit the everlasting land for ever. All with a view to Yahweh's glory. Even the smallest planting will become a thousand, the tiniest will become a strong nation. It is a picture of fruitfulness and blessing, the Israelite ideal. And Yahweh will hasten this on once the set time comes.

So as we come to the end of this description of the future of God's ‘Jerusalem', of that ‘portion' which He has set apart for Himself and which He has peopled with His own people, of that which sums up the future of His true people through the ages, culminating in the everlasting glory, we have Isaiah's picture of the ideal future. We see in it his attempt, in the light of the limitations of his day, to portray the eternal triumph and the eternal glory. But Who will bring all this about? The answer is found in ‘the Anointed One'.