Study
38 From the Book of Isaiah is: Isaiah 60
An
inspired vision of Zion, when God shall have fulfilled toward her all His
purposes, and clothed her with His glory.
1.
Try to build up the picture of the glorified Zion as given in
this vision. Gather out the references
to God, and observe carefully the place He occupies in Zion. Has He this
central place in your life, and in your Christina fellowship?
2.
Consider how many of the features of beauty and glory in the
Zion of this chapter are to be found, in their spiritual counterpart, in a life
dwelling in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. See especially verses 2, 5, 7
(last clause), 13 (last clause, 16b, and 17-21; and cf. 2 Cor. 3:18; 4:6; 6:
16; Eph. 3:14-21.
Notes.
1.
Verses 8, 9. The ships coming from the west, with their white
sails, looking like a flock of doves.
2.
Verse 13. ‘The place of my sanctuary’: i.e., the Temple, called
also ‘the place of my feet’.
3.
Verse 21. ‘That I might
be glorified’: compare ‘he has glorified you’ (verse 9) and ‘I will glorify my
glorious house’ (verse 7; so also verse 13).
Where God is glorified, all else is glorified in Him. Cf. 2 Thes. 1:12.
