Tanak Foundations-Concepts in Isaiah-Chapter 35

Isa 35. 1-10 tells us about the blessings of the Messianic Kingdom and the miracles that will be experienced in nature and among the people.

v 1…The wilderness (midbar) and the desert (steppe, dry land) will be glad (believers will rejoice there-Rev 12.14; Acts 7.38), and the Arabah (desert) will rejoice and blossom as the lily.

v 2…It will blossom profusely and rejoice with rejoicing and a shout of joy (the eschatological Kahal is rejoicing after the defeat of their enemies). The glory of Lebanon (massiveness of the cedar forests) will be given to it, the majesty of Carmel (fruitfulness and beauty) and Sharon (famous for its fruitful valley and vegetation), they will see the glory of Yehovah (when Yeshua returns to rule in the Messianic Kingdom).

v 3…Encourage the exhausted and strengthen the feeble (the Jewish people, the eschatological Kahal-Isa 40.1).

v 4…Say to those with anxious heart, “Take courage, fear not, behold, your God will come with vengeance (an idiom for Yom Kippur, and the recompense of God will come because it is a Yom ha Din or Day of Judgment-Isa 61.1-2; Luke 4.16-21), but he will save you (his return will happen on a Yom Kippur-Matt 24.29-31).”

v 5…Then (after Yeshua returns to reign in the Messianic Kingdom) the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped (not only physically, but the next verses can be applied spiritually as well).

v 6…Then (after Yeshua returns) the lame will leap like a deer (walk in the Torah and truth), and the tongue of the dumb will shout for joy (speak the truth). For waters (heavy rain, teaching, and truth) will break forth in the wilderness and streams in the Arabah (physically and spiritually dry no longer-Joel 3.18; John 7.37-39).

v 7…And the scorched land will become a pool (well-watered), and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, its resting place (spiritually where ha Satan once ruled), grass becomes reeds and rushes (an oasis will come up where it was once the domain of ha Satan).

v 8… And a highway will be there, a roadway (notice this is singular, alluding to the ancient path of the Torah, one way), and it will be called the highway of holiness (“kadosh” or it has a kedusha on it, the way is the Torah). The unclean will not travel on it (does not have a kedusha from Yehovah), but it will be for him who walks that way (in the Torah, the ancient path), and fools will not wander on on it (“evilim” or foolish will not follow the Torah).

v 9…No lion will be there (they were famous for attacking travelers, and alludes to ha Satan or evil rulers-Jer 4.7), nor will any vicious beast go up on it: these will not be found there (waiting to devour). But the redeemed will walk there (in the Torah without fear).

v 10…And the redeemed of Yehovah (“peduyay Yehovah” in Hebrew, and Reggie White saw these two words in a dream two days before he died. He had realized that what he had been taught previously was a lie and began to study the Torah-Isa 51.11) will return, and come with joyful shouting to Zion (Psa 126), with everlasting joy upon their heads (seen on their faces). They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

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