DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 19 June 2025: Peace Ahead
Text: Isaiah 2:1-9 (KJV)
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning [a]hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
5 O house of Jacob, come and let us walk
In the light of the Lord.
6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with eastern ways;
They are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they [b]are pleased with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is also full of silver and gold,
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land is also full of horses,
And there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is also full of idols;
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made.
9 People bow down,
And each man humbles himself;
Therefore do not forgive them.
KEY VERSE: (Isaiah 2:3) And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
A Roman poet once said: “Sweet peace has transformed me. I was once the property of the soldier and am now the property of the husbandman.”
Wherever the latter times are mentioned in Scripture, the days of the Messiah are always meant; especially the days yet to come, to which all prophecies hasten, when “the house of the God of Jacob” namely, Jerusalem, shall be the centre to which the converted nations shall flock together. The prophecies in the second, third, and fourth chapters make one continued discourse. The first five verses foretell the kingdom of the Messiah, the conversion of the Gentiles, and their admission into it.
The second chapter foretold the punishment of the unbelieving Jews for their idolatrous practices, their confidence in their own strength, and their distrust of God’s protection. Moreover, the destruction of idolatry because of the establishment of the Messiah’s kingdom at Jerusalem, and, like an object set on the highest hill, made so conspicuous that all nations are attracted to it.
Christ promotes peace as well as holiness. At the establishment of His kingdom at the Millennium, great peace shall flourish through the reign of the Prince of Peace on the earth. So then, as the Roman poet surmises, great peace shall overshadow the earth, as she becomes “the property of the husbandman.” Whatever others do, let us, as believers, therefore, walk in the light of this peace and daily act, talk, and live our life as ‘agents’ of His peace. Let us remember that when true religion flourishes in the atmosphere of peace, men delight in going to the house of the Lord, and in urging others to accompany them.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Colossians 1-4
Daily Manna 19 June 2025
