Isaiah 2:1-4. It seems that many group Chapters 2-5 or 2-4 together. So at this point, it becomes apparent that Isaiah is a conglomeration of prophecies written at different times. He did not just sit down and write the book from beginning to end in one sitting. In fact, Isaiah may not even have been the one to gather all his writings. Who knows?
There is even debate as to the authorship of the passage we are presently looking at because Micah has the same words in his prophecy. People speculate as to one prophet repeating the other prophet or even a third prophet. It makes little difference now I suppose. It’s not clear as to why the debate.
If you were to group all of chapters 2-5 together, these 4 verses stand out and alone from the rest. All the rest speak of the present sins and shortcomings of Israel. They speak of the sad condition God finds them in. But these four verses speak of another day, a better day, a grander day.
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 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.
3 And 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.
4 And 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.