Excerpt - Apocalyptic Commentary of the Book of Isaiah by Avraham Gileadi, Ph.D.

62:10–11 Pass on, go through gates; prepare the way for the people! Excavate, pave a highway cleared of stones; raise the ensign to the nations! Jehovah has made proclamation to the end of the earth: Tell the Daughter of Zion, See, your Salvation comes, his reward with him, his work preceding him.

As Jehovah’s raising his ensign to the nations takes effect and those who repent return in the new exodus to Zion (Isaiah 11:10–12, 15–16; 18:3; 49:22), Jehovah comes to dwell there (Isaiah 12:1–6; 40:10–11; 59:20). The servant’s “work”—of preparing the way of holiness among them (Isaiah 35:8–10; 40:3–5; 49:11–12)—leads to Jehovah’s “rewarding” them at his coming (Isaiah 35:4; 40:10; 61:8). Those who fail to repent, on the other hand—common “stones” that clutter the ground (Isaiah 5:2; 45:9; 57:14)—are cut off from being Jehovah’s people (Isaiah 48:18–19; 50:10–11; 65:11–12).

Parallel depictions of “the Daughter of Zion” and “the end of the earth” signify that at the time Jehovah raises up his servant or “ensign to the nations” to announce his coming and to gather his people (Isaiah 11:10–12; 49:22; 52:7) many are scattered to the ends of the earth. Jehovah’s descent phase of atoning for humanity’s transgressions—(1) on the model of a vassal who answers for the disloyalties of his people to the emperor; and (2) in the pattern of an animal’s sacrifice for sin (Isaiah 43:12, 25; 44:22; 53:4–10)—now bears fruit as he comes as the personification of salvation in his ascent phase.

62:12 They shall be called the holy people, the redeemed of Jehovah; and you shall be known as in demand, a city never deserted.

Parallelism of “the redeemed of Jehovah” and “the holy people” shows that the redemption of Jehovah’s people isn’t complete until they emulate his holiness. Only then does the Holy One of Israel, their Redeemer (Isaiah 41:14; 47:4; 48:17; 54:5), bring to fruition his redemptive work among them. To that end, the covenants he made with them from the beginning—the Sinai, Davidic, and Abrahamic Covenants—provide successive vehicles through which his people and individuals may attain greater degrees of holiness and ascend to higher spiritual categories (Isaiah 4:2–3; 24:16; 52:1–2, 13; 60:14).

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