Isaiah 56:1-57:21

The people God welcomes (with Q&A)

Who will benefit from the rescue of the Lord’s coming servant? This is the key question of the closing section of Isaiah’s epic prophecy. What Isaiah shows is that those welcomed by God include unexpected outsiders. Ethnic background and religious privilege count for nothing. The one criteria that matters to the Lord is humility. One who is ‘of a contrite and lowly spirit’ before the Lord and his servant.