Teks -- Isaiah 66:22 (NET)

66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

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Wesley: Isa 66:22 - The new heavens

The new state of the church to be raised up under the Messiah.

Wesley: Isa 66:22 - Remain

As I intend that shall abide, so there shall be a daily succession of true believers for the upholding of it.

JFB: Isa 66:22

(Isa 65:17; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1).

Calvin: Isa 66:22 - For as the new heavens // So shall your seed and your name remain

22.For as the new heavens Here he promises that the restoration of the Church shall be of such a nature that it shall last for ever. Many might be afraid that it would be ruined a second time; and therefore he declares that henceforth, after having been restored by God, its condition shall be permanent. Accordingly, he mentions here two benefits of surpassing excellence, restoration and eternity. When he speaks of “new heavens” and a “new earth,” he looks to the reign of Christ, by whom all things have been renewed, as the Apostle teaches in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Now the design of this newness is, that the condition of the Church may always continue to be prosperous and happy. What is old tends to decay; what is restored and renewed must be of longer continuance. (Heb 8:13.)

So shall your seed and your name remain God had promised that “the sun and moon,” so long as they remained in heaven, should be witnesses of the eternal succession, that the posterity of David might not be cut off. But because some interruption arose from the treachery and ingratitude of the people, the restoration effected by Christ actually confirmed that prediction. Justly, therefore, does Isaiah say, “Your sons shall succeed to you, and your grandsons shall succeed to your sons;” and as God will establish the world, that it may never perish, so the succession of the Church shall be perpetual, that it may be prolonged through all ages.

In a word, he explains what he had formerly said about renewing the world, that none may think that this relates to trees, or beasts, or the order of the stars; for it must be referred to the inward renewal of man. The ancients were mistaken when they thought that these things related absolutely to the last judgment; and they had not sufficiently weighed the context of the Prophet or the authority of the Apostle. Yet I do not deny that they extend as far as to that judgment, because we must not hope for a perfect restoration before Christ, who is the life of the world, shall appear; but we must begin higher, even with that deliverance by which Christ regenerates his people, that they may be new creatures. (2Co 7:1.)

Defender: Isa 66:22 - I will make

God will both "create" (Isa 65:17) and "make" the new heavens and the new earth, just as He "created and made" the first heavens and earth (Gen 2:3). This present earth and its atmospheric heaven must be purged by fire of all the age-long marks of sin and death (2Pe 3:10), and then will be made new (Rev 21:5) by both the creative (calling into existence) and formative (building up into more complex existence) acts of our Creator and Maker.

Defender: Isa 66:22 - remain

Unlike the present heavens and earth, which will "pass away" (Mat 24:35) under the law of entropic decay, the new heavens and new earth will remain new eternally, for there will be no decay or death in that world."

TSK: Isa 66:22 - the new // so shall

the new : Isa 65:17; Heb 12:27, Heb 12:28; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1

so shall : Mat 28:20; Joh 10:27-29; 1Pe 1:4, 1Pe 1:5

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Poole: Isa 66:22 - The new heavens and the new earth

This whole verse is only a promise of the perpetuity of the gospel church, and the not failing of the additions to it of such as shall be saved till the world shall have an end.

The new heavens and the new earth the new state of the church to be raised up under the Messias. As I intend that shall abide, so there shall be a daily succession of true believers for the upholding of it; for if believers could fail from the earth, the church, made up of them only, as the true members of it, must fail also.

Haydock: Isa 66:22 - Name

Name. The faith and morals of Christianity shall subsist for ever, like the gospel, which is termed the new heavens, chap. lxv. 17., and Matthew xvi. 18.

Gill: Isa 66:22 - For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make // shall remain before me, saith the Lord // so shall your seed and your name remain

For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make,.... Not "have made"; for this is not to be understood of the heavens and the earth made new in the beginning, and which continue so without any change or alteration; though sometimes the perpetuity of the church, which is here predicted, is set forth by the duration of those, Psa 89:36 but either of the new state of things under the Gospel dispensation, which still continues, promised Isa 65:15, or rather, since that would be an illustration of it by the same thing in different words, it may be interpreted literally of the new heavens and the new earth, which will be made when the present ones shall wax old and perish, and be no more, as in the New Jerusalem state, 2Pe 3:10,

shall remain before me, saith the Lord; these shall continue, not only throughout the Millennium, or thousand years' reign, but for ever:

so shall your seed and your name remain; not the natural seed of believers; all have not such seed, and they that have, they are not all converted persons; but the spiritual "seed" of the church, born in her, and brought up by her; which shall continue in successive generations to the end of time, notwithstanding the persecutions of men, and the craft of false teachers, and the reproaches and banters of a vain world, Psa 22:30, and their "name" also; the name of Christ they name and confess, and that is called upon them, and from whence they are called Christians; this shall endure as long as the sun, Psa 72:17 or the new name of sons and daughters of the Almighty; or their fame and glory, the memory of them; they shall be had in everlasting remembrance, Psa 112:6.