"In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria--a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, 'Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.' "
To me, this is one of the most remarkable passages in the whole Bible. Isaiah is prophesying about the New Covenant church age, to be inaugurated by Christ's incarnation. Instead of only Israel being God's people, now even the Assyrians and the Egyptians (representing all other Gentile ethnicities as well) will be the recipients of all the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This is the world we live in today. Look around you. What do you see in the church on Sundays? You behold people from all kinds of back-
grounds. The promise has been fulfilled.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Sin and corruption may be more stirring and boisterous after a man is regenerate than they were before con-
version." --Christopher Love, in, "The Mortified Christian"]
