Pictorial
Bible Exegesis: Isaiah 41 and the Advent
Isaiah
in chapter 41 opened a panel of the Second Coming Christ the King from the East
and asks, who authorized Christ to come from the East “who aroused One from the
East”? (Isaiah 41:2a). He is called in Righteousness [Christ our Righteousness
but the Targum calls him Abraham] to God “to His feet” (Isaiah 41:2b). The
Trinity works together here. Christ delivers up nations before Him and subdues
kings at His Second Coming (Isaiah 41:2d). “Who has calling forth the
generations from the beginning?” (Isaiah 41:4b). It is God the Father. Christ
is also Lord and the first and the last just like the Father here (Isaiah
41:4c).
(Excerpt
from K. van Wyk, Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically,
unpublished).