Isaiah 2:1-5 - Peace Train

This is one of my favorite sections of Isaiah. The heaviness of the previous chapter lifts just a bit (for a moment) and we get a glimpse of a much better future. Today on the following news stories hit: "Bloody Street Fighting in Russian City Kills Dozens" and "U.N. to evacuate some staff from Sudan's Darfur" mercifully no reports of bombings in Iraq, though no doubt violence in one form or another continues there unabated.

With the world in turmoil like this it's nice to be able to thrust our heads above the clouds every once in a while and breath a fresh breath of future redemption. Isaiah gives us the following:

¹ This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

² In the last days
the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established
as chief among the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.

³ Many peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths."
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

⁴ He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.

⁵ Come, O house of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the LORD.

How I long for the day when nation will not train for war anymore! OoooAhhh EeehAhhh...