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Isaiah 66

"... they will come and see my glory."

◘  Written 600 BC
◘  Far-away lands:
Turkey / northwest Mediterranean / Greece

* a tough, challenging passage to read.

1. "those who survive the sign"
- The sign?  ...  Immanuel

2.  "and they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain as an offering"
* complicated language - colonialism, appropriation, removal?  as opposed to sharing the Gospel

Of its time?
◘  To present an offering to God at this time:
action is carried out in a temple or, on top of a mountain
◘  ESV: language of brotherhood & fellowship

v.18  People are gathered back
    - -  same lang. as used in Ezekiel 11 & Ezekiel 36

v.22 -  ref. to New Jerusalem  safe

v.24 - 'dead bodies'
* surprising to find that included here
  accustomed to concept of separation & division,
     eg: Matt. 25:31 -33; 46  Sheep & Goats

◘ Hell - the absence of God's goodness
◘ God & sin cannot co-exist

*  Jerusalem
Inside the City  =  Outside the city
    safe            rubbish heap;
                              fire