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A Multi-Layered Promise
Commentators agree this promise has multiple layers of fulfillment. It applied initially to Israel's restoration after exile, finds a deeper reality in the new life offered through Christ's first coming, and points to an ultimate, complete fulfillment in the final new heavens and new earth described in Revelation 21.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 65:17
18th Century
Theologian
For behold - The idea in this verse is that there will be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were made.
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 65:17
19th Century
Bishop
Behold, I create new heavens ... —The thought reappears in many forms in the New Testament—verbally in 2 Peter 3:13;[Reference…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 65:17
16th Century
Theologian
For, lo, I will create new heavens and a new earth. By these metaphors, he promises a remarkable change of affairs; as if God had said tha…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 65:17
17th Century
Pastor
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth
This prophecy began to have its accomplishment in the first times of the Gos…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 65:17–25
17th Century
Minister
In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miser…