Isaiah 60

Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.

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I'm not particularly nostalgic but I do like "the old days". 50-60 years ago life seemed more simple...more sacred. I wouldn't mind going back to that better time.

That's impossible but...going forward isn't. If there could be a better time up ahead I'd be very interested.

Chapter 60 a congratulatory ode to Israel on the occasion of her restoration as the Mother Church (joined by the New Testament Church) from which the Gospel will be disseminated throughout the world. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown tells us this chapter alludes to the millennium...a thousand years of God's peace on earth initiated by the return of His Son.

And...it sounds like a good time in history. “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you". Even the 1950s would have difficulty matching it. Israel will have influence around the globe. The days of Iran, Hezbolla and Hamaz threatening Israel's existence will be gone forever. God says "Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn...you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come". This isn't the Israel we know today.

But it is the Israel to come...

We're told the entire world will then know that the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob is the Savior and Redeemer. No longer will violence, or ruin or destruction be a part of the political landscape.  And best of all...we believers will be part of this promise.

I could look back but...it doesn't look as good as the future.

Live boldly out there today...