“And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”
Isaiah 1:8-9 KJV
Isaiah’s prophecy to Judah, that the daughter of Zion is left as helpless as a deserted shack in a vineyard or like a flimsy shelter in a field of cucumbers - in every way like a city besieged! If the Lord of Hosts had not left us survivors, our fate would have been the same as Sodom and Gomorrah! Even during devastation, God calls His people the “daughter of Zion.” God’s people are His daughter, born out of Zion, the holy realm. In the New Covenant, we who were co-crucified and are co-risen with Christ, have already come to Mount Zion, the city of the Living God which is the New Jerusalem in heaven. Here in Isaiah’s time, instead of His dwelling place, they have become like a flimsy hut. The work of God, as Isaiah prophetically sees it, is to restore this “hut” to the place of the divine shelter or dwelling place. Even the besieged city will one day become the New Jerusalem, where God and humanity mingle as one. In the New Covenant, we are joined to the Lord in one Spirit, only by faith in the finished work of the Cross. Thank You Father for Your awesome plan! Amen!
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