Introduction

This week, we begin a new year in the life of the church calendar with the first Sunday of Advent. Our text is Isaiah 2:1-5. In this text, the prophet Isaiah paints a picture for us of a world that seems, in many ways, too good to be true. The opening chapters of the book of Isaiah are mostly filled with words of God’s judgment, but along the way, there are words like these found in our passage that bring hope and remind Isaiah’s audience that God’s judgment will never be the last thing.