In our last post on Isaiah chapter forty, we reviewed verses one and two.  If you were unable to read that post, please click here: “Double for all her sins…”  In order to get the full impact of that famous verse thirty-one, I would like to work through this chapter with five questions.  Of course, verse thirty-one says, “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”  The first question from verses one and two was, “WHAT DO I DESERVE?”

What Did God Display?

This is the question from verse five, “And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”  Verse three is the prophecy about John the Baptist, and in verse five the Word of God teaches us that the glory of the LORD shall be revealed.  The best way to interpret Scripture is with Scripture, so please consider Hebrews chapter one and verse three: “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”

Jesus Christ is the brightness of God’s glory

Jesus Christ is the brightness of the glory of God.  Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.  Jesus Christ is the WORD Who was in the beginning and was made flesh (John 1:1, 14).  Some would try to pigeon-hole this verse to simply and only speak of Jesus Christ’s “Second Coming,” but the truth is that any and EVERY time Jesus Christ is on revealed to man, HE IS THE BRIGHTNESS OF GOD’S GLORY.

What has God displayed?  To this undeserving sinner, God has displayed the brightness of His glory in the Person of Jesus Christ.