Week 12: The Demise of False Worship


Isaiah 2:1-2 English Standard Version (ESV)

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 It shall come to pass in the latter days
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,


Isaiah, the faithful servant and speaker of the word of God, whose first chapter was about the wickedness of Judah and and the unfaithfulness of the City of Jerusalem, has now taken a deep breath and launched himself into a prophecy of how the mountain of the Lord will look in the latter days.

This will be a time of great change and upheaval on the earth as can be seen with even a brief reading of the Book of Revelation, another book full of prophecy about the latter days. So what is this mountain? In all likelihood this is the mountain where Abraham prepared himself to sacrifice his son Isaac, where David me the Angel of the Lord on the threshing floor, and where the temple was built, which today is just a platform, awaiting the new temple. But how can it, become the highest of mountains? Surely it would be an odd sight to see it raised up higher than Mount Everest! The truth of it is that it will be given a preeminence over others for what it holds and represents, much as Christ is the preeminent one, even though physically He wasn't born first.

I think there might be another significance to the Hebrew mind here as well. We are told many times through the time of the judges and kings that the people worshiped in the high places, whether it was to false gods, or to the true God in a false way. If this is now lifted above all the “high places” of the world, might this mean that those places will lose their significance In the eyes of people? This can be seen by the idea of all the nations shall flow to it. Why would they do this unless it were in recognition that it was all false gods and false worship?

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