Isaiah 48:6

‘You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.’ (Isaiah 48:6)

God is here talking about the end of times, where He is now revealing to the Israelites what should happen right at the end, when they will be ultimately restored, and the millennial kingdom set up. Just previous to this God has reminded them of ‘the former things’ which He declared ‘from the beginning’ so that when they happened the Israelites would know it was Him that caused them, and not attribute the events to their idols. In effect He is saying, ‘since I told you the former things would happen, and they did, then what I tell you now is equally true’.

But reading this verse as a Christian applies in a slightly different way. Or it can. We have heard, we have read, we know! We know about Jesus’ love, His death, His resurrection, God’s saving grace, His plan for us. And will we not declare it? Will we not give God the glory by telling everyone we know about these marvelous things?

We are God’s witnesses, as the Israelites were in those days. How will the nations know if not by us?