“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.“
The entire chapter numbered as 60 serves as pendent to the first 10 verses of Is. 40. Thy light refers to Zion which is in heaven. “The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof./Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined”.(Ps.50:1-2)
But did the nation of Israel care? When God brought them from Egypt with a mighty arm, they murmured. They loathed the angel’s food. Then they asked for a king to rule them as other nations. So God commanded Samuel to hearken to their demand. They had rejected their God. It was part of their warfare.
“Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished.”(Is.40:2).
In the manner they rejected the prophets send to them elicited this from their ‘Messiah’ woe to ye, he lamented. (Matt.23:31-36). They rejected the true Light and what was the point? “There was no light in them. (Is.8:20). It was to them Jesus asked, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”(Matt.32:32). So they were cast off and only when the finally realize their folly, the Spirit speaks through the prophet, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” The light of revelation did not come from within but from above. They were received as the Gentile nations because of God of all mercies, a facet of His holiness. “Be ye holy. for I am holy’ in other times fell on deaf ears but Zion and New Jerusalem as one, qualified as the light of the Lamb. “And the Lamb is the light thereof./And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it./And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day.”(Re.21:23-25) cf.”Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night;”(Is.60:11)
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