David McDonald
In Isaiah 40 to 66, Isaiah calls the people of Judah to trust God in the darkness. God’s people had avoided the Assyrian crisis, which had cast a dark shadow over chapters 1 to 39, only to fall to the Babylonians. Yet God has not forgotten his covenant. He will bring a new exodus. He will redeem his people and bring them home. Furthermore, God will deal with the deeper issues of corrupt hearts and the need for forgiveness. By the work of the servant, sin will be atoned for and God’s people can look forward to a future of paradisiacal proportions. Big promises, indeed! But then this is a big God, and this is his big gospel!
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