Isaiah 32:12-18 When the Spirit is poured out from on high, God’s people dwell in a peaceful habitation where they are refreshed, restored and rested.
Isaiah chronicles the pouring out of God’s Spirit as a Sabbath rest of peace and safety from enemy attacks, famine and disease. Crops and vines were again abundant. All things were fertile, including the hearts of the people. Jews and Gentiles lived together in peace and love. Isaiah is known as the Hebrew prophet who predicted the coming of Jesus Christ to redeem mankind from sin.
Isaiah lived about 700 years before Jesus. During the spiritual reign of Jesus to come, we will lie down in safety. We will sleep in sure dwellings and quiet resting places, forever free from earth’s legacy of fear and sorrow as Jesus is given the title deed to earth. The one who has entered into God’s rest no longer strives, having trusted the work God finished in Jesus at Calvary.
There remains, therefore, a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. (Hebrews 4:9-10) There is an addendum to Old Testament law written in the blood of Jesus, sacrificially fulfilling what the law could not. To trust Him is to surrender the exhausting “do it yourself” impossibility of atonement, and accept the work He completed on the cross. “There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emanuel’s veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.” (William Cowper – 1772)
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