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Isaiah 25:1
1Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
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The Hebrew word *shalom* here carries the force of a military commander marshaling his forces according to a predetermined strategy, assigning each soldier his proper station in the execution of a grand enterprise.
Exell (1887) illuminates this harsh pronouncement through agricultural metaphor: as farmers spread manure upon ploughed fields to enrich the soil and increase harvests, so Yahweh's judgments—though they deface and destroy nations—serve a remoter purpose of subsequent fruitfulness.
Exell observed in 1887, this earthly life proved too shallow a vessel to hold peace, righteousness, worship, and divine love.
It is a blessed loss that makes us find our Elohim!
Isaiah 25:11 presents a figure of Yahweh frustrating the drowning efforts of Moab in the dungpit—a scene that Professor S. B. Driver interprets as divine power subduing iniquity. The homiletic tradition that follows offers this vivid image: God as a...
To grasp its sweetest meaning, we must enter the spirit of Isaiah 24, which thunders with clouds, darkness, and judgment.
The early Church was not built by imperial decree or military might, but by the Spirit's power working through ordinary believers.