- 5. Mountain of the Lord’s House
Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
The Last Days are the days in which we are living, all the days since the Resurrection of Jesus Christ until today and on through until the Last Day, the Day of Judgment. In these days God promises that the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established as the highest house, and all the peoples of the world will come into it. This mountain is the Church of the New Testament. The Church is the Lord’s house. The Church is the mountain. The Church invites, welcomes, and brings all people into it through the preaching of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian church on earth by the Gospel.
This promise is fulfilled and is continually being fulfilled through history. The Church continues to grow by the nations flowing into it from everywhere. This is the promise; this is the reality and truth we do not see. The Church doesn’t look like a mountain, and it surely doesn’t look like it is the top of the mountains. But God says it is; therefore it is. Our physical senses cannot verify it, for it is spiritual. The Invisible Church is invisible. We don’t see the spiritual world, so God must reveal to us how it really is. If we could see what God sees, we would see the church of all believers in Christ as a mountain, even over all the other mountains and hills.
We, as believers in Christ, are a part of something really big, something glorious, something eternal, something really important, something influential, and something that matters. Why would we come into any other mountain or human institution? And we don’t have to climb far: we simply go within where God dwells in the spirit of the Christian. By repentance and faith in the Gospel we touch Eternal Life when we touch God in ourselves and in other believers.