ISAIAH
Chapter 2:6a


Isaiah 2:6a

quote:

"For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east,"

Would God utterly forsake His People? He would cast them off and leave them to their own devices, but as stated in the following scriptures, for His own Name's sake, He would not utterly abandon them.

1 Samuel 12:22
"For the LORD will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the LORD has been pleased to make you a people for Himself."

Psalm 94:14
"For the LORD will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance."

Specifically speaking of the exile, God says in Leviticus 26:44-45, "Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. 45 'But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"

The Hebrew more literally says, "I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them to consume them to break My covenant with them;" Instead, of breaking His covenant, God would bring to remembrance the covenant He had made.

Even after many of the Jews had rejected Jesus, Paul defends God as One Who does not reject His people --

Romans 11:1-5
"I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3 "Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, they have torn down Thine altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life." 4 But what is the divine response to him? "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice."

It is important to understand that God does not break covenant. Man may break covenant with God and go his own way, but our God is not a covenant-breaking God. The essence of the covenant is, if we will be His people, He will be our God (Jeremiah 30:22). James 4:8 says it this way, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." While we have the privilege of pledging our hearts to the Lord, we can count on God to always be faithful to His covenant.