All The Nations Will Come

I love where I live. In case you don’t know my family and I live up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. These are not the tallest or grandest mountains this world knows but they are the most beautiful, in my humble opinion anyhow, and its home. In the short period of time that we have been here we have seen deer and turkeys and a bear. We have a Yellow bellied sap sucker that is very comfortable with us as well as a Scarlet Tanager that likes to visit and we have quiet.

But what is it that makes a mountain beautiful? Is it the trees, the birds and the animals? Is it the quiet that we have or the sounds of the wind as it blows through the trees? I don’t think so. It certainly is a part of it and, I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but truly what makes this so beautiful?  I believe it is all the things that I mentioned but also it’s the presence of G-d in our home and in our hearts that really make this a beautiful place.

According to Isaiah though there is going to be a mountain that is far better than anything we have ever experienced before. It is going to be a mountain that calls to our very souls and will bring all of us to us to worship G-d the way He was meant to be worshipped.

Isa.2:2-3 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths. “For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

It doesn’t say that it’s going to be the most beautiful mountain, though I think that if G-D is there its likely to be wonderful, but it is going to be a mountain that all of us are going to want to go to. The passage says that the nations are going to flow to it and that the peoples of the world are going to say let’s go to the mountain of G-D and to the house of the G-D of Jacob to learn His ways.

Right now Israel is under attack from enemies both in and out of their own country. They get some of the nastiest press worldwide from those that want to see them destroyed and yet here is a promise for both Israel, and those of us  who love Israel, that a day is coming when all of us are going to want to go to Israel to the Mountain of G-D in Jerusalem and from there peace is going to overflow throughout the world.

So what makes a Mountain beautiful?  The presence of G-D.

Shalom