Isaiah 66:22

For as the new heavens, &c.— This conclusion connects not only with the preceding period, but with the argument of the two former sections, as well as with the whole book, with respect to its principal scope. For, what scope and end, not only of this book, but of the whole prophetic word, can be fixed upon more properly, than to set forth the history and events of the true church, and its adversaries, both in this mortal life, and in futurity? We may therefore affix a very ample signification to the particle כי ki, for, or because. The above promise of a church to be called from the Gentiles, and to be supported and taught by ministers, appointed by God for that end, from the Gentiles themselves, Isaiah 66:21 with the addition of the remnant of the Jews, is here enlarged by the promise of the stability and duration of this eminent blessing. The discourse is directed to the same church of believers in Christ, which the prophet had addressed in all the consolatory periods of this section. As the new heavens and the new earth which God had promised to create, ch. Isaiah 65:17 were to remain before Jehovah, so should this spiritual church, which was to inherit these new heavens and new earth, remain or continue a glorious church. See Vitringa.