_And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse_
A PROPHECY CONCERNING MESSIAH THE PRINCE
I. HIS RISE OUT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Isaiah 11:1).
II. HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIS GREAT UNDERTAKING (Isaiah 11:2).
III. THE JUSTICE AND EQUITY OF HIS GOVERNMENT (Isaiah 11:3).
IV. THE PEACEABL... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him_
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
חריס is the Divine Spirit as the bearer of the whole fulness
Divine powers.
Then follow in three pairs the six spirits comprehended by הרוה,
the first pair of which relate to the intellectual life, the second to
the practical... [ Continue Reading ]
_And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord_
“OF QUICK UNDERSTANDING IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD”
“Of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord” a word which
relates to the power of smell or scent; He is to have that keen sense
which the hound has when the game is not far away,... [ Continue Reading ]
_But with righteousness shall He judge the poor_
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM
As it may in many ways be shown that the Church of Christ though one
Church with the Jewish, differs from it as being a kingdom, so now let
me dwell on this point: that though a kingdom like empires of the
earth... [ Continue Reading ]
_And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins and faithfulness
the girdle of His reins_
THE RIGHT GIRDLE
I. We have the Saviour here represented in His RIGHTEOUSNESS. The
Saviour was abstractedly, in and of and from Himself, righteous. But
the righteousness here means the actual accomplishme... [ Continue Reading ]
_The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb_
A PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY
I. THE MORAL VARIETIES OF THE RACE. Men are here represented by
irrational creatures, differing immensely in their organisations,
their habits, and their tempers--the “wolf,” the “lamb,” etc.
The physical differences between men are... [ Continue Reading ]
_They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain_
THE GOLDEN AGE
Poets have sung of a golden age, saints have prayed for one, the Bible
distinctly teaches that one will come.
This passage gives us the characteristics of this “good time
coming.”
I. THE WHOLE EARTH SHALL BE THE SPIRITUAL R... [ Continue Reading ]
_There shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of
the people_
MESSIAH, THE ROOT OF JESSE
If, through the infallible guidance of the Divinely inspired apostles
and evangelists, we can find the Messiah spoken of in many passages of
the Old Testament, in which we should not otherwise... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of His people_
THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS TO THEIR OWN LAND, AND CONVERSION TO THE
FAITH OF CHRIST
I. THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE AND CHARACTER OF THE JEWS. The past
history of the Jews has been very remarkable, more so than... [ Continue Reading ]
_The envy also of Ephraim shall depart_
JUDAH AND EPHRAIM
Jacob, in his prophetic statement of the fortunes of his sons,
disregards the right of primogeniture, and gives the preeminence to
Judah and Joseph, and in the family of the latter to the younger son
Ephraim.
Hence, from the time of the exo... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea._
THE EGYPTIAN SEA AND THE RIVER
The “tongue,” _i.e., _the bay (_cf. _Joshua 15:2)
of the Red Sea (the Gulf of Suez) will be “banned,” _i.e.,
_rendered harmless to those who would cross it, by being dried up;
“the river” (the Euphrate... [ Continue Reading ]