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Isaiah chapter 60, verse 22.

I am the Lord.

In its time, I will hasten it.

Now, that verse is only rightly understood

when you realize all that's come before it,

and 21 verses before that, because basically what God, through Isaiah,

gives his people is prophecy, a picture of their restoration.

After exile, after experiencing the consequences of sin.

He's saying, I'm going to bring you back to your land.

You're going to dwell in peace.

But it's a picture not just of what was going to happen in Old Testament history.

It broadens to a picture of what God is going to do in ultimate history

when he brings his people to himself

from among all the nations to worship

and there's peace and righteousness that reigns on the earth.

This is talking ultimately about a new heaven

and a new earth where God will dwell

with his people in perfect harmony.

And so verse 22 at the end says,

I and the Lord, in its time, I will hasten it.

In other words, he's saying to his people,

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