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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 all the nations to worship and there's peace and righteousness that rains 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 in the middle of the consequences and effects of sin all around them.

He's saying trust in me.

I'm going to bring about an end to all this. I'm going to restore you to myself.

There's going to be a day when sin and all of its effects will be no more.

So trust in me, I'm the Lord, and it's time, when it is time, I will hasten it.

And this is a good word for us, centuries after, God spoke this through Isaiah in a world right now where we're surrounded

today by sin and all of its effects in so many ways in our lives and the world around

us that we see it we hate the effects of sin I just think about

specific things going on around me right now that I see in my life other people's lives

in the world as I look at headlines just just to hate sin. I hate its effects. And God in his word

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