Mike Bickle emphasizes Jesus' leadership during the Millennium as depicted in Isaiah 11, highlighting His unique role as both fully God and fully man. He explains that Jesus, as the son of David, will restore righteousness and glory to the earth, leading all nations from Jerusalem. Bickle reassures that even when circumstances seem dire, God's promises remain steadfast, and out of apparent desolation, Jesus will emerge to fulfill His divine purpose. The sermon underscores the transformative power of Jesus' leadership, which will bring peace and restoration not only to humanity but also to creation itself. Ultimately, Bickle calls believers to trust in the beauty and authority of Jesus' reign.

On our series, this class, the Millennium, Heaven on Earth. And here in Isaiah chapter 11, we're looking at Jesus' leadership, His over-the-earth as a man. And the focus is His leadership as a man. Meaning it's not surprising that God has excellent, powerful leadership. What is surprising is that a man has divine, excellent, powerful leadership. We know that Jesus is fully God and fully man. But the emphasis of Isaiah chapter 11 is the anointing of the Spirit is on a man. Accomplishing this global restoration. And filling the earth with the glory of God under His leadership. And we know that happens in part in this age. But it happens in fullness in the age to come. Roman numeral 1, just a quick review. The Father is the one that determined that Jesus, as the son of David, would be king over all the nations. He told David, King David, He gave him the promise. Psalm chapter, the second Psalm, verse 8. Verse 6, He goes, I will set my king on my holy hill. And He was talking about the greater David, the Lord Jesus. And I will give Him the inheritance of the nations. He will possess all the ends of the earth. This is something David did not possess or walk in and neither did any king after Him. Paragraph B. The Lord shall be king over all the earth. Now we know in heaven at the right hand of the Father, He is king over all the earth. But we're talking in Zechariah 14. The context of Zechariah 14 is on the earth as a man in the presence of all the nations. He will be recognized ruling in Jerusalem as the king over all the earth. Roman numeral 2. Jesus' leadership, and I want to add, as a man, His leadership over the nations. Paragraph A. In Isaiah 11, we see the power of Jesus and we see the result of His leadership. That He will establish righteousness, not just in Jerusalem, but in every nation of the earth. He will remove the curse from creation. He will reverse the curse that came with Adam's sin. He will fill the earth with the glory of God under His leadership. He'll bring the Gentile nations to God. And He'll bring Israel to God and fully restore and rescue Israel from the end time crisis. As all the nations of the earth gather around Jerusalem to exterminate the Jewish people and the hostility against the Jews. He will rescue them, restore them, bring them to salvation. And then even to their promised position of leadership in the millennial kingdom. That Jesus will exercise with all of His people, but particularly from the city of Jerusalem. Well it starts off in Isaiah chapter 11, verse 1. And I won't spend a lot of time on this verse, but this is a significant verse. Because the point of this verse is that the man that's anointed in verse 2, I mean the one that's anointed, the king that's anointed in verse 2 is a man, it's a human. He was born from the line of David. It goes on, he starts in Isaiah chapter 11, verse 1. There shall come forth a rod, or a little branch, a little shoot. It will come from the stem of Jesse. Now Jesse is David's father. And so everybody in Isaiah's day understood that he's talking about the lineage of David here. He says that from the stem, or from the stump, most translations use the word stump. But from the stump of Jesse, there's going to come forth this human being, because he's born in Jesse, or King David's family line. Again, Jesse is David's father, so he's born, he's a human born in the family line of the tribe of Judah. And this branch shall grow out of Jesse's roots. Now what's happening in this hour, in Isaiah's generation, is that David's dynasty had fallen into ruins. And David's dynasty, his great reign, it's 300 years after David, and things were steadily getting worse. And the judgment of God was coming on the land of Israel. And it looked like to some that the very purpose of God was about to be extinguished in the nation. That's the context of what's going on. And Isaiah says, no, no don't worry. That from this stump, because David's dynasty was once a great glorious tree with great fruitfulness that was a object of respect and even fear among the nations. But this tree has fallen into ruins, and there's barely a little stump yet existing. And Isaiah says, don't give up on God's purpose that He gave David and his sons. For out of the roots, God's not going to abandon His promise to Jesse and David. He's not going to abandon His promise to Israel out of the stump, out of the fallen tree when everything looks gone and finished. It's over. Isaiah says, thus says the Lord, that the tree doesn't look like it's fallen, but out of its roots God will perform what He promised. A man is coming forth, a son of David, far greater than David, and God will give supernatural power to him and He will restore everything that God has ever promised to Israel and to the human race. Beloved, when I'm going to not read the paragraphs here, but sometimes in our own lives we get the promise of God, and it looks like a great fruitful tree should be emerging by now. And we look and we say, there's really only a stump with a little root system under the ground. We barely exist according to what God promised. And we can look even at Isaiah 11, and the Lord says, I don't abandon any of my promises. That even if only the root system and a stump exist, I will be true to what I said. But something glorious is going to come out of that little stump. And He's going to be a man. He's not going to be an angel from heaven. He's going to be a man born of a woman, from the line of Jesse. In other words, from the line of David. And He will be the awe of the nations. He will bring the glory of God, not just to Israel, but to the whole world, to all the Gentile nations. Top of page 2. Now the context for which Isaiah 11, in its fullest application, part of the context, not the full context, is the great tribulation troubles that are going on. Because this king that rises up out of the roots of David, the stump of David, so to speak, when it looked like Israel was all but finished, the little stump left, and a little root system under the ground, God says, I mean, there's going to be tremendous trouble in the earth before this king emerges in the sky at the sound of a great trumpet. And there will be great desolation. You have to understand that, because Isaiah 6, you won't get its full grandeur and its meaning if you don't understand the context happening in the earth when this king comes back in the sky in flaming fire at the sound of the last trumpet. There will be great desolation of the cities of the earth. Not all the cities, but many cities. The national economies will be destroyed. When Jesus comes, He will lead a great nation building program that will affect every nation on the earth. And it will be under His leadership. He has the power, the wisdom to restore every nation to do the will of God as God originally desired. We find in Revelation 16, that right before the appearance of this great son of David in the sky, the Lord Jesus, there will be a great earthquake that will shake nations. Verse 21 of Revelation 16, there will be 100-pound hail stones falling from heaven. Cities and nations will be desolated by many things before this, but this will be the capstone of them all. Isaiah develops this idea quite a few times, actually, throughout the book of Isaiah. But here in Isaiah 24, look, God will make the earth empty. He will distort its surface. Verse 12, the cities will be desolate. That will be the state of affairs when the king appears in the sky. Now all through the book of Isaiah, we find the promise of desolate cities being restored. And I think it's good that we take that promise for now. But that promise of restoring desolate cities is only fulfilled in part right now. In its complete fulfillment, most of the verses of desolate cities being restored is when the Lord Jesus comes and they're fully restored in the glory of God beyond anything that they ever had even before that time. There's quite a few passages on desolate cities. You find it, I'll just give you a few verses in Isaiah 24-27, quite a bit. Isaiah 33-34, quite a bit. Isaiah 58-59. Isaiah 60-66. They're describing this time frame right before the king appears on the earth to transition the earth to the age to come where all that was ruined is restored and all the desolate cities are fully made new and filled with the glory of God. And the reason that's important, because you won't really understand the fullness of Isaiah 11 if you don't know the chaos into which this man is making his entry into the human race. Of course, it's his second time, but he's coming. And every eye will see him, and he's not just coming as king, but he's coming as nation builder. He's going to restore the whole earth. What a glorious reality. Paragraph D. Paragraph D on page 2. Verse 2. He's not only a man from the tribe of Judah, I mean the family line of David and Jesse, he's the most anointed man that's ever walked the earth. He will have a supernatural source of power beyond what any man has ever seen. Verse 2. This man from the lineage of Jesse, the greater David, which is the Lord Jesus, the spirit of the Lord will rest on him. That will be the secret of his success. He will have a supernatural power energizing him, the very power that was manifested in Genesis 1 when the heavens and earth were created. He will have supernatural wisdom far beyond Solomon. He will have understanding of all the implications of all the actions. Whatever he does, he'll understand the implications into eternity of every decision that's made. He'll have a spirit of counsel and might, power on him. The spirit of the knowledge of God. This is not just informational knowledge here. This word knowledge is related to the person of God. He will know more about God the Father, Jehovah, Yahweh, than any other man that's ever walked the earth. He will have profound knowledge of his Father, obviously. We understand that. And he will be filled with the fear of the Lord. In other words, his respect and his honor of his Father will be without any measure to it at all. So this man is described in many places in Scripture as the king that has total power. But here's what it's saying here in Isaiah 2. He'll have supernatural power. I mean power beyond what any man's ever had. But he will use his power in a way that pleases God. He will operate fully and perfectly in the fear of the Lord in the use of that power. Now paragraph E, we gain insight into the dynamics of Isaiah 11 when we understand the implications that this is Jesus as a man. Again, he's fully God. But the description of Isaiah 11, the surprise of it, the amazing nature is that it's a man accomplishing these things under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Now we know that paragraph 1, that Jesus had to become human forever when he became man. When he accepted that mandate from the Father, that calling of the Father. When the Father, God so loved the world, he sent his only begotten Son. When Jesus said, yes, I will become man, he had to become a man forever. It wasn't like when he rose from the dead, he took his humanity and cast it off and said, wow, that was an intense 33 years. No, he had to become human forever. That's how it works. I mean, this is so remarkable. He's fully God, but he takes upon something entirely new to his experience. He's human. But he's going to be human forever. Number two, he had to be judged with our sin, but he had to be judged as a man. It wasn't God judging God. Again, Jesus never ever ceased to be God at any time throughout the process, but it was God the Father judging a man for the sin of man, for humans. I'm using man in the sense of human. Paragraph 3, the point I really want to focus on here in Isaiah 11, he had to live as a man dependent on the anointing of the Spirit. See, when he became a man, he was saying to the Father, I will live dependent on the anointing of the Spirit in my humanity forever. This is just mind-boggling to me that he's fully God, but in his human leadership over the earth, he says, I will live under the anointing of the Spirit even in the millennial kingdom like I did during my time on the earth in my three-and-a-half-year ministry. Well, it really is 33 years on the earth. He lived dependent on the Father. I like how one preacher said he was never ever less than God, but after his incarnation, he lived as though he was never more than a man. Though he was never less than God, he did all of his miracles as though he was only a human. He didn't draw on his own power as God, but he drew on the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Of course, there's a mystery to how all this works in fine detail. Paragraph 4, Jesus said it clearly. John chapter 5 verse 19. He said, I can't do anything of myself. I don't initiate any miracle. I talk to the Father, and when the Father shows me what He's doing, I do it under the anointing. That's the relationship that Jesus walks out as He rules the earth in His humanity so the Spirit of the Lord is upon Him in this sevenfold way. I mean, this is the most remarkable reality. Jesus operated like that then, but Isaiah 11 is talking about when He's seen before all the nations as king, as a human king over the earth. He will continue to function in His human leadership over the earth as a man anointed by the Spirit, the Spirit of counsel, the Spirit of might, the Spirit of wisdom, all of these dimensions described in verse 2. Paragraph 5, this is an imperfect analogy that I've heard and I've used over the years. I'll upgrade it to a laptop. I heard it about another differently years ago, but a laptop is powered two different ways. This is an imperfect analogy. There's an internal source of power, the battery, and there's an external source of power, the plug-in. Jesus always has the internal source of deity and power, but in His human relationship to the earth, He always lives by the external source, by the anointing of God on Him. Though He has all the power to do the miracles when He was on the earth, but He said, Father, I will only do them under Your leadership as a man drawing on the anointing. So in terms of His human leadership of the earth, He lives by that external power. That's a really imperfect analogy, but by the anointing that's resting on Him. He's modeling the relationship for us. He says, now I want you to live like I lived before the Father, and I want you to live that way forever before the Father. Not just in this age. This is forever. We'll live under the anointing like He does. Again, the mystery of the incarnation and the mystery of the relationship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is far beyond what my feeble mind can grasp. Those are just a few faint whispers about Isaiah chapter 11. Look at the top of page 3. Verse 3, His delight will be in the fear of the Lord, for He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor shall He decide by the hearing of His ears. Again, this is Jesus in Jerusalem, resurrected body, human body in Jerusalem after the second coming, and He's establishing order and restoring all the nations in this not just nation-building program, global earth-rebuilding programs. What's happening? Because the cities of the earth are under, again, not all of them, but many of them have suffered desolation. I mean, think about the national infrastructures of just the house a society would work and the governments, because one of the last acts that happens is that Jesus kills all the kings of the earth that gathered around the city of Jerusalem. All the kings, the heads of states have just been executed, and there's all new governments being put in, all new social infrastructures, national economies, the devastation of the atmosphere and the earth and the animal kingdom. It's all being restored by this man, and it's even being set forth here in Isaiah chapter 11. But his delight is in the fear of the Lord. He's enthusiastic about obedience to his father. He's not an ordinary good king. He's not an ordinary Christian king that recognizes God's authority but struggles to obey it. He says, I delight in my father's commands. I delight in my father's will being done, even in the position of having all the power. There's never been a king like him. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes. In other words, in his nation-building program, plus much more, he will not make judgments by what seems apparent on the surface. He'll look at the chaos in nations and who was guilty and who was innocent and who did what to who and every nation's role against other nations, and he will not judge by what looks like the situation on the surface. He'll see through every single situation of every human being, of every international and national conflict, of every injustice. He'll see through everything, and he will set up new governments. He will set up new social infrastructures. Now, often in a time of reconstruction or even non-reconstruction of a nation, the government processes, there's so much corruption and so much spin and so much hidden information and so many solutions that appear to be the right one, but only part of the information is known and so much darkness in all the process, but not him. He'll not judge by what man sees by natural eyes. He'll judge by the spirit of wisdom and understanding with perfect understanding, and his counsel, his plans on how to restore nations will be perfect. You know, over history, there's calamities and nations, and then the new government gets in place, and they set things in order, and they find out, you know, 50 years later that many of those laws were actually counterproductive to the prosperity of that nation, but who knew back then when they first made the laws? Well, the spirit of counsel will be on this man. Every decision will prove to be effective and fruitful when the long term is seen. Middle page 3, paragraph G. It says that, verse 4, but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and with righteousness, I mean, and he will decide with equity for the meek of the earth, or with equity of fairness. He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. I mean, this is so intense. There are so many ideas brought together by Isaiah, by the Holy Spirit, through the prophet Isaiah in this one sentence. Everything that he does in his decisions to reconstruct the nations and to go forward, everything will be done in perfect righteousness. All of his decisions. There will be total, everything he does will be fair. He will consider the poor. Now notice, there will be the poor at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. After time, and I don't know how much time, but all the national economies will be corrected and prosperous. But he's not going to come and wave his hand and all the buildings are rebuilt and all the streets are repaired and all the infrastructure is put in place and all the economies are working right with the people that have natural bodies on the earth. But the poor will be there. And they may be there for some time. But he will set in legislation and he will set in leaders and he will put in policies that at the end of the day, the poor will become prosperous and he will have them in mind instead of being swayed or bought off by the rich and the powerful like kings normally are. He will decide all of his decisions with total fairness for the meek of the earth. Now notice this. He will be so zealous for righteousness that he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he'll slay the wicked. Now, the point that Isaiah is making here is that this man, this son of David, this greater son of David will be so zealous for what is right to God he will even embrace judgment upon the earth. He'll be the source of it. And the point being that the striking of the nations by the rod of his mouth will be an expression of his righteousness. There's a debate today in the body of Christ about does God judge? Isaiah chapter 11 verse 4 tells us it's an expression of his rightness. He's removing everything that hinders love. That without judgment he would not be a righteous king. Striking the nations is part of making wrong things right. And he will strike the nations. Now notice this. Notice this. Let's go all the way to page 4. Because as he acts and he judges by the way this word judgment as I'm just looking at the notes on our way to page 4 he will act decisively. He won't be passive. He won't be kind of stuck in a vacuum of indecision. He will act decisively powerfully, boldly even in the confrontation of evil. He will have no second guessing no waiting to garner the opinion of the political party that put him in office. He will move boldly, clearly, tenderly but decisively. And that's what's involved in the word judgment because there will be a global crisis and it will need not only swift action but bold and right and clear action. No man could do this. Could be in this nation building program that will go on for 1,000 years by the way. The 1,000 years of the Millennial Kingdom one of the reasons I believe it goes on 1,000 years because I think it will take 1,000 years not just to establish things in order. Many things will be set in place in that in those first years of those first generations but for righteousness to mature in the nations and for things to progress in the way that He wants under His leadership I believe it will take 1,000 years because there won't just be a supernatural dimension of His own ministry and leadership but there will be a human process involved as He's establishing all of these things across the earth. On top of page 4 He is so zealous in righteousness and righteousness means to make wrong things right I mean that's kind of a practical definition of it making wrong things right. The rightness of God will be established in part as He strikes the nations but notice He strikes the earth with His mouth I mean He's going to intervene to such an extreme way with zeal to make things right. He'll strike nations. He'll strike them. Now this is again at the end of the tribulation and He's judging the evil leaders of the earth He's killing them then He's judging nations after that in Matthew chapter 25 all the nations appear to Him and He judges them and it says in Isaiah 2 He rebukes some of the nations at that time some nations no longer continuous nations they're goat nations from Matthew 25 others are sheep nations in Matthew 25 He determines which nations continue which nations merge which nations will be made new He will continue which leaders are executed which leaders continue to live I mean there's all kinds of decisions that are going on here in this period when He first comes on into His reign the early days of His reign and again He doesn't wave His hand and one day everything pops up cities are all healthy and thriving but He does it through human process with natural people I mean people on the earth with natural bodies the unsaved survivors of the great tribulation who then get saved as they see Him but they still have natural bodies but now they're encountering Jesus in His humanity just like they did in Israel for three and a half years they saw Jesus in His humanity and they made decisions for Him many of them and of course many of them went the other way but the nations will see Jesus in His humanity in Jerusalem we'll have resurrected bodies in the New Jerusalem but the New Jerusalem will have descended to the earth we will be involved in our resurrected bodies but human bodies interacting with the rebuilding of the nations with those with natural bodies I believe that's what the portrait of Scripture clearly indicates when you put Scriptures with Scriptures I mean volumes of them with the commitment not to leave out any of the major parts of the drama I know some Bible teachers when they get in a jam they just say that just has to be symbolic and I say well I don't think that's a major thing going on there I don't think we can just reduce it to symbolism it's part of the storyline it's part of the grandeur of this man's leadership under the anointing when he returns to rebuild the whole earth and restore the economy restore the agriculture restore the atmosphere restore the animal kingdom restore nations I mean to bring the salvation of God to the ends of the earth I mean what a remarkable mandate the Father has given Him but here in top of page 4 paragraph 4 says He'll strike the earth with His mouth you know we just looked recently at Isaiah 49 where Jesus made the statement that the Father has made my mouth like a sharp sword well here in Isaiah chapter 11 He says Jesus will strike the nations with His mouth His words will be so powerful when He speaks I'm talking about on His throne in Jerusalem He will speak or even when He returns in the sky in flaming fire and every nation will see Him the very words of His mouth will release the power of God to not only judge the wicked but to restore nations His words will have such authority remember He's the one that spoke in Genesis 1 it was Jesus speaking under the Father's authority the second person of the Trinity before His incarnation well that very same power will rest on Him even as a man again He's fully God the whole time through but He will speak words and the words will have such powerful impact on the nations Revelation 19 tells us that by His mouth He'll strike nations that's literal well there's more verses here you can read on your own look at paragraph 5 by His very breath He'll breathe and release the power of God look at this in 2 Thessalonians when He stands before the Antichrist He'll stand before the Antichrist and all the kings of the earth around Jerusalem and when Jesus marches up to Jerusalem as the greater David the greater Moses the greater Joshua the greater Elijah all of those you know multiplied beyond measure He faces the Antichrist and He breathes on Him and consumes Him the man who terrified the nations will be overcome by the breath of His mouth look at the bottom of page 4 paragraph I Psalm 45 which is one of the favorites here at IHOP Psalm 45 we'll have this probably sang more people sing Psalm 45 in the worship with the word sets over the last 15 years it's talking about Jesus at the end of the Armageddon campaign when He's being established before the earth and His leadership as a man it says verse 2 Psalm 45 You are fairer than the sons of men and I like most translations say You are more beautiful than the sons of men Jesus in His righteous leadership including His righteous judgments will appear in His beauty before all the nations of the earth I love the Isaiah 4 he talks about this verse 2 I don't have it in the notes he says in that day the branch of the Lord this branch of David in that day this man will be seen in His beauty and His excellence and all the nations will see Him in His beauty notice in verse 2 of Psalm 45 that in that day when His beauty is revealed grace will be poured out on His lips what it means grace it doesn't just mean graciousness grace is more than graciousness grace is power there will be power on His lips He will speak and there will be such authority and power so it's more than graciousness but it's the anointing of God is on His lips they said back in His earthly ministry never did a man speak this way Jesus could have stopped and looked at them and said you haven't even seen the beginning yet of what I can do with my words I said the other day that when Jesus said Lazarus come forth out of the grave after four days He rose from the dead if He wouldn't have said the word Lazarus all the graves could have opened up because He has authority by His words to open all the graves He will on the last day John 5 says by His word all the graves will open up and everybody will be brought forth by the words of this one man beloved grace are on His lips grace is poured out on His lips Psalm 45 combines beauty it combines the power of His words combines it with the sword with war with humility with righteousness all of those themes together combined show the beauty of the Messiah in that day well that's another theme for another time top of page 5 well the nations are restored righteousness fairness the wicked that did not repent are dealt with the fear of God is being established in all the policies all the appointments of leaders in the earth now Isaiah changes his description from what happens in society in nations now he looks at what happens in the animal kingdom in creation now in Romans chapter 8 Paul the Apostle addresses this he talks about the time when creation Romans 8 will be delivered from the bondage of corruption right now the creation is under the bondage of corruption and part of that corruption is the hostility in the animal kingdom animal against animal and animal against humans that hostility that corruption the bondage is going to be reversed but it won't just be animals and humans the atmosphere the agriculture many, I mean Hosea chapter 2 focuses on the agriculture different chapters focus on different facets of the created order Isaiah here focuses on the animal kingdom you put them all together it's just fantastic picture he talks about the time where the wolf and the lamb will lie down together and the leopard and the goat and he read it on your own how children children are mentioned three times how the little child will interact with the one time fierce beast with no fear no harm whatsoever because the animosity will be completely taken out because creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption and that creation involves the animal kingdom not just the atmosphere and the agriculture and the storms and the seas and the waves and all the hostility involved in that paragraph B later on in Isaiah chapter 65 he develops this idea that he introduces in Isaiah 11 he develops it more and he talks about how the span of human life talking about people with natural bodies on the earth not talking about people with resurrected bodies we'll live forever with our resurrected body he goes the days come are going to come on the earth again with Jesus' leadership where the normal life span will go back to like it was in the days of Noah to hundreds of years and that when somebody you can read Isaiah 65 dies at age 100 they'll say you know the poor little guy was only 100 and he died what happened I don't know boy that's what a tragedy he was only 100 so there will be that that will be that restoration of even human life span paragraph C verse 9 Isaiah pauses and says let me say it just in one sentence the earth will be filled with the knowledge of God this man's leadership will cause the earth to see what God is like the earth will see openly what God is like through this man's person and through his leadership and the fruits of his leadership Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 14 says it a little differently the earth will be filled with the glory of God here it says the knowledge of what God's like those are really just saying the same thing in two different ways well Roman numeral 4 now Jesus I mean now Isaiah moves from the created order and the glory of God he says now let's get down to individuals he goes let's look at the Gentiles first verse 10 he goes individuals nations but for nations to come to the Lord individuals in the nations come to the Lord so though Isaiah highlights nations the Gentiles it's the point of it is the individuals of the Gentile nations meaning this purpose is bigger than Jerusalem and Israel this greater son of David has as his inheritance the ends of the earth not just Israel his boundaries are far beyond that we looked at Isaiah chapter 49 the other day verse 6 and 7 where the father said to the son it's too small of a thing that I only give you leadership over Israel to bring Israel to God you're going to bring the whole earth to God he said in Isaiah 49 it's too small to give you one nation you're the king of all the nations I mean who is this man that we're worshipping tonight well here in verse 10 in that day there shall be a root of Jesse Isaiah again is talking to in his generation because the dynasty of David Jesse's son, King David had fallen so far in so much spiritual negative things are happening and they thought the tree of David was over and there's only a little root system and Isaiah said I promise you out of that root system, out of that stump will come forth a mighty tree far greater than the first David and he shall stand as a banner to all the people that means to all the nations of the world is what it means when it says the people like that he will be the picture to the earth of what God's like he'll be the banner the rallying flag not only to reveal what God's like he'll be the banner that will manifest the glory of God he will be the banner that has God's wisdom that he will articulate it and establish it in the nations what a remarkable reality he will be the banner to the whole earth beloved when the glory of God is being manifest in verse 9 in one way, I mean one point that Isaiah is making in verse 10 where this one man, the son of David the root of Jesse it says even when the glory of God is filling the earth in verse 9 the earth will be preoccupied by this one man from the line of David from the line of Jesse he will be the preoccupation he will be the magnificent obsession of the nations this one man will be and it says the Gentiles will seek him then it goes on to make this very interesting phrase which we don't have time to develop tonight his resting place will be glorious what that means is his resting place here, it's talking about the context of his throne his royal palace his governmental complex where he will sit his throne of glory will be where he will reign as the epicenter the central governmental center for the whole earth spiritual, political knowledge, wisdom, economic he will be the center it will be his resting place, the place of his throne and the bible gives us a few snapshots, a few hints of his throne on that day paragraph C Jesus with his own lips called it the throne of his glory he goes when I return on the throne of glory that's my final resting place on the earth that's where I will be that's where will be my center, that will be the place of my throne that's the place of my sanctuary the place where my feet are I will have feet forever I'm a man forever I will always be here as a man in this place is what it's talking about but it will be glorious Psalm 48, I won't go into it now but describes the resting place, the throne of his glory on the earth top of page 6 well the gentiles will seek him we have these various passages there's many more where all the kings of the earth worship him where the gentiles come, I have several passages there I'm just going to skip them they come to Jerusalem to see him in person but they also worship him in spirit, all the nations of the earth are worshiping him, I mean prayer and worship will fill the nations although there will be occasions where they will come from the nations we have down here in paragraph E they'll come to Jerusalem to learn of his ways, they won't just learn morality they won't just come to Jesus and say what does it mean to live pure, they will learn about technology, they'll learn about agriculture they'll learn about science, they'll learn about every branch of science and knowledge they will come to Jerusalem and the one far greater wisdom than Solomon will teach them of all their ways, when you read in Kings about Solomon had knowledge and all these branches of knowledge of life, he's only a snapshot of the one that will have the spirit of understanding and wisdom far beyond knowledge I mean far beyond Solomon, and here in Jerusalem they will gather and they will learn of his ways about every area of life and life will come to prosperity and fullness over that thousand years before we can imagine beyond what we can imagine here just to bring this last part to an end and we won't be able to cover it but then Isaiah now says okay, he goes you know I've been talking about restoring righteousness in the earth you know I've been talking about the animal kingdom, you know I've been talking about he'll strike the earth with his mouth and all these things let me tell you, he won't forget he won't forget the sons of Israel from verse 11 to 16 he goes let me tell you what he will do, now Israel wanted him to do this the first time he came but he didn't do it, he came as a lamb but when he comes back as a lion and still a lamb, he's forever a lamb verse 11 to 16 describes how he will rescue Israel even from such hostility even prison camps in the nations he will come and rescue them himself, I mean when Moses rescued them out of Egypt in slavery, this is the greater Moses, he will rescue them out of literally enslavement many Jews at that time that will survive the great tribulation but not saved if they're saved they'll be caught up in the rapture they will actually see Jesus and he will deliver them in that day and we've got quite a few verses here, this is a theme you don't hear much about but it's this theme that the Old Testament prophets talked about quite a bit and the two nations that are emphasized most in which the Jews will be in captivity is Assyria and Egypt I mean the prophets one after the other have mentioned Assyria and Egypt where slaves, where Jews will be in slave camps they will be outcasts, they will be held against their will it's clear from a number of passages and Jesus will liberate them, escort them back to Jerusalem or orchestrate their being brought back to Jerusalem and all the Jews in the earth will be brought back to Jerusalem and they will see their king face to face I mean it's a remarkable story it's a Moses in Exodus with miracles story done on a global level far beyond the drama of Moses and Isaiah in verse 11 shows that greater than Moses savior dimension of Jesus for the nation of Israel well we've you're sitting here going wow I know I love him I know I love his leadership I got a lot to learn about his leadership wow, and I mean we're just scratching the surface tonight, every one of these lines have so many implications about this man that we love amen and amen let's stand, we're just going to just take a a song and worship the Lord before we dismiss here, I'm going to ask the worship team to come we just want to magnify the glory of this man beloved when the devil comes to you and tells you to give up and give in it's not worth it I tell you, it's worth it, he is worthy and it is worth it, we're only going to going to just minister to the Lord for a few moments but I just feel like we need to to just declare our heart to him I want to encourage you, I mean this was a quick kind of drive by quick run of Isaiah 11 but I want to encourage you to camp out on Isaiah 11 a little bit and read it and say Lord what is, what what is this about and it's about his beauty it's about his leadership in that time I'm going to keep talking until you start you ready, okay good I'm on my favorite theme the leadership of Jesus and his leadership