Devotional Notes on Isaiah 62
Isaiah 62 is a prophecy of Jesus’ wedding to New Jerusalem, as recorded in the book of Revelation. Interestingly, this prophecy only makes sense to me if consider God’s Trinitarian nature.Â
“…you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.”
It’s the groom that gives a bride her name –> the Old Testament God will give Israel her name –> Jesus is the groom –> Jesus will give her a new name + Jesus and the Old Testament God are one. Â
But, as I discussed in Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth, Jesus in the Old Testament is always in the flesh, and the Father is always in Heaven. So, we also have: It’s the groom that gives a bride her name –> the Old Testament God will give Jerusalem her new name –> God the Father will give Israel her name + God the Father and the Old Testament God are one.
Finally, we have: Jesus and the Old Testament God are one + God the Father and the Old Testament God are one –> Jesus and God the Father are one.
What we also see here is a prophecy concerning Jerusalem, and by extension Israel, in the end times. Therefore, God is not finished with Israel, and He will not be finished with her until the end of History. Therefore, any Christian would be making a mistake to abandon Israel, for she remains Gods, even if as she rejects her bridegroom for the time being.
For as a young man marries a young woman,  so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
It would seem here that Jerusalem’s sons and God are one as well. Without Jesus, this was probably a confusing prophecy. But to a Christian this makes sense, for we know that Jesus the Son, Jerusalem’s bridegroom, is a descendent of Jerusalem’s sons. And we also know that the reason God can rejoice as a bridegroom is because God the Son is the bridegroom.
God then issues a promise of what it will be like after the wedding, versus now:
The LORD has sworn by his right hand
  and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give your grain
  to be food for your enemies,
and foreigners shall not drink your wine
  for which you have labored;
but those who garner it shall eat it
  and praise the LORD,
and those who gather it shall drink it
  in the courts of my sanctuary.â€
And so, we should not be surprised that in our day Jerusalem’s grains are used for their enemies, figuratively speaking. This suggests that things will continue as they are until Jesus is ready to come back. Of course, that could be any time, but it might also not be for a while.
Say to the daughter of Zion,
  “Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
  and his recompense before him.â€
And they shall be called The Holy People,
  The Redeemed of the LORD;
and you shall be called Sought Out,
  A City Not Forsaken.
This chapter ends with an exhaltation, perhaps to welcome the church which was still to come, and is in some respect a daughter to Zion. The church of course has not replaced Jerusalem, but the faithful from the church will all counted with the faithful of the Jews when the end is here. And with the exhaltation comes reassurance, that Jerusalem will be sought out by the world, and will no longer be forsaken by the world… as they currently are in the court of world opinion.