Jerusalem
Isaiah 2:2-4
Isaiah · ~700 BC · Status: Future · Confidence: 60% · Payne §Isa 11
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.”
King James Version · the opening — all 3 verses are below
The elevation of Jerusalem as the spiritual center of the world in the messianic age, nations streaming to learn God's Torah.
Read the whole passage — all 3 verses (KJV)
2:2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
2:3And 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.
2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Fulfillment References
Micah 4:1-2 Revelation 21:10 Hebrews 12:22
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'In the last days... all nations shall flow' to the mountain of the LORD's house, and He shall judge and bring peace, swords beaten into plowshares. The Lord who teaches His ways and judges among the nations is the Lord Jesus, whose law goes forth from Zion in the gospel; the heavenly Zion is His (Heb. 12:22), consummated in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:10) — the one God reigning in Christ.
JewishA central vision of the messianic age — Zion exalted, the nations streaming to learn God's Torah, universal peace and the end of war; shared with Micah 4.
CatholicThe Church as the mountain drawing all nations, Christ's law going forth from Zion; the peace of the kingdom, fulfilled now in part and fully at the end.
ProtestantThe exaltation of God's kingdom and the gospel going to all nations from Zion, with ultimate, warless peace under Messiah's reign.
AcademicA famous Zion oracle (paralleled in Micah 4:1-3) envisioning the eschatological pilgrimage of the nations and universal peace; its origin (Isaiah or Micah) is debated.
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