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The sermon interprets Isaiah’s mountain as a prophetic picture of the church’s ultimate exaltation and the universal reign of Christ. Although Christians are called to labor, serve, and evangelize, the church’s final victory depends chiefly on Christ’s advent and divine power. The nations flowing to the mountain signify the spiritual gathering of people from every nation to Christ and union with His church. Spurgeon presents Christ’s return as comfort and triumph for believers but terrifying judgment for those who remain His enemies. Therefore, hearers are urgently invited to abandon sin, trust the crucified Redeemer, and come to Christ while grace is offered.
Theological center: Christ will return to establish His universal reign, exalt His church, gather the nations to Himself, and judge those who reject His grace.
Applications: Contribute to the church’s growth · Come to Christ now · Consider Christ’s return · See the church’s promised glory
Primary texts: Isaiah 2:2 · Micah 4:1 · Philippians 2:11
“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.” Isaiah 2:2, & Micah 4:1. THE prophets of God were anciently called seers, for they had a supernatural sight which could pierce through the gloom of the future and behold the things which are not seen as yet, but which God has ordained for the last times. They frequently described what they saw with spiritual eyes after the form or fashion of something which could be seen by the eyes of nature. The vision was so substantial that they could picture it in words so that we, also, may behold in open vision, the glorious things which they beheld after a supernatural sort. Let us imagine Isaiah as he stood upon Mount Zion. He looked about him and there were “the mountains that are round about Jerusalem” far out vying it in height, but yielding to Zion in glory. Dearer to his soul than even the snowcapped glories of Lebanon which glittered afar off was that little hill of Zion, for there upon its summit stood the temple, the shrine of the living God—the place of His delight, the home of song, the house of sacrifice, the great gathering place where the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord—to serve Jehovah, the God of Abraham! Standing at the gate of that glorious temple which had been piled by the matchless art of Solomon, he looked into the future and he saw with tearful eyes the structure burned with fire! He beheld it cast down and the plow driven over its foundations. He saw the people carried away into Babylon and the nation cast off for a season! Looking once more through the glass, he beheld the temple rising from its ashes, with glory outwardly diminished, but really increased. He saw on till he beheld Messiah, Himself, in the form of a little baby carried into the second temple. He saw Him there and he rejoiced, but before he had time for gladness, his eyes glanced onward to the cross. He saw Messiah nailed to the tree. He beheld His back plowed and mangled with the whip. “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,” said the prophet and he paused awhile to bemoan the bleeding Prince of the House of David. His eyes were now doomed to a long and bitter weeping, for he saw the invading hosts of the Romans setting up the standard of desolation in the city. He saw the holy city burned with fire and utterly destroyed. His spirit was almost melted in him. But once more he flew through time with eagle wings and scanned futurity with eagle eye…