Isaiah 52:7

Isaiah 52:7 says, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!  Isaiah said that the feet of those who proclaimed the gospel were beautiful and that it pronounced that the Messiah, Jesus Christ. alone could bring salvation.  He also said that the people of Zion would once again proclaim that their God reigned.  As followers of Christ, we need to always share the gospel to the world, and no matter what happens in this lifetime, we need to always proclaim that our God, the only God, reigns. 

Verse eight adds, Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.  Isaiah said that the watchmen, those who were supposed to be on alert for the enemies of Israel, would once more be doing what they were supposed to be doing and that they would be in agreement after God brought them to Zion once more.  As Christians, we are the watchmen today and we need to be crying out against the enemies of God. 

Verse nine continues, Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.  Isaiah called on the people to break forth in joy and to sing together about God’s redemption.  We as followers of Christ should be a joyous people, and we should break forth in songs about His deliverance of us from the power of sin and death.  This should not depend on our physical circumstances. 

Verse ten states, The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.  God had manifested His power to the people of the world, and He would receive the glory for salvation that He made available to everyone.  This may have referred to a specific event in time, but it also referred to God’s everlasting deliverance of those who put their faith in Him.  It is because of God’s power that we can have victory over sin and death if we will only put our faith in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.  

Verse eleven adds, Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.  God called on His people to depart from the places of sin, to touch no unclean thing, and to be clean spiritually and to bear the vessels of the Lord.  As Christians, we are to remove ourselves from sinful situations, and as Christians, we are vessels of the Holy Spirit, so we need to do all that can to remain spiritually clean.  We cannot separate life into the physical and the spiritual but must realize that everything that we do as followers of Christ has a spiritual context to it. 

Verse twelve continues, For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.  The people of Israel were told that they would not go out in haste, fleeing from their oppressors.  Instead, they would go out under the leadership of God and that He would be their reward. We are not to run from our enemies today in fear, but we are to follow God’s leadership, especially as we go through tough times.  Our reward is not a physical reward but is an everlasting relationship with God.