June 2026

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 70: New Heavens and Earth

We had titled our commentary on the early portion of Isaiah chapter 65 Christians and Pagans, and perhaps Christians and Heathens may have been more accurate, and even more properly descriptive, but either way the same point is made. There have always been people among the children of Israel who are quick to depart from the faith in exchange for the temporary pleasures of the flesh, or even at the first sign of some trial. While the pagan beliefs may be seen as ancestral, they actually represent the errors and sins of our ancient ancestors. All of the records of Norse paganism, or Greek paganism, or the paganism of Mesopotamia reflect an acceptance of sexual licentiousness, Sodomy, child grooming, adultery and other sins which are not sins for pagans, because even the gods indulged in such acts, and if one’s god does it, well, then it must be permissible for everyone. 

As soon as the children of Israel in the Exodus account had thought that Moses had been gone too long at Sinai, they quickly broke off on their own path and compelled Aaron to make for them a golden calf. Most Christians probably do not realize that the golden calf was a symbol of Baal, and that the Israelites in Egypt must have been familiar with Baal, because they were in Goshen, in the area of the Nile Delta, during the same period when Canaanite kings had ruled over much of Lower Egypt. Apparently, after the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos, the Egyptians themselves had also added Baal to their own collection of idols. Much later, when the kingdom of Israel was divided, the golden calves of Jeroboam I had also represented the worship of Baal.

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A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 69: Christians and Pagans

In our most recent commentary on Isaiah, discussing chapter 64, we saw A Prayer for Repentance which began with a plea for judgment, which had petitioned Yahweh God, in part, to “make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!” Then the children of Israel were portrayed as having confessed many of their sins, and as having surrendered themselves to the will of their God hoping to receive of His mercy. In that, there was also a subtle prophecy, as they confessed that Solomon’s temple had been destroyed, even if the temple would not be destroyed for at least another hundred years after the time when Isaiah could have written these words. Finally, they expressed complete exasperation with their circumstances in the world, where both the chapter and the prayer had concluded and they asked “12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?”

This prayer in Isaiah chapter 64 echoes attitudes in an earlier prayer which is found in Isaiah chapter 26. There the children of Israel were portrayed as having been oppressed by their enemies, but also as having been multiplied in spite of that oppression. Yet they showed a similar degree of exasperation where they are depicted as having said:

16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Following that Yahweh God is portrayed as having made a promise of judgment upon His enemies which continues into chapter 27. So the prayer found there is indeed parallel to this one, and we have pointed out several such instances in Isaiah, in this context and others.