Isaiah 56:7
Isaiah has been teaching the nation of Israel how they need to respond to God. You will not respond to God until you understand what God expects from you. You will not respond to God until you realize you have a sin problem and it is keeping you away from God.
Israel is going into exile in Babylon. When she returns, she will have to return to God by repenting of her sins. But the issue of sin still has to be resolved, which God will do by sending Emmanuel to take the sins of the world on Himself. So, since chapter 40, Isaiah has pictured the return of the Jews from Babylonian exile as including a spiritual return to the God of heaven in faith and obedience.
Largely throughout all of Isaiah’s preaching, he has indicated that all peoples, Gentiles, will be welcomed into God’s new, spiritual temple (see 2:1-4): 2:2-3; 11:10-12; 14:1-2; 18:7; 19:18-25; 42:6; 45:22-24; 49:6, 22-23, 26.
In chapter 56, specifically verses 3-8, God calls to the “foreigner” and to the “eunuch” to respond to Him. How will they receive the blessings God has to share? As always, through an humble, obedient response – they need to keep God’s sabbaths, choose what pleases God, hold fast to His covenant (vs 4).
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Likewise for the “foreigner” – they will join themselves to the Lord, to minister to Him and to love His name, to be His servants, who respect the Sabbath law and hold fast God’s covenant (vs 7). God will bring them to His “holy mountain” (His temple; see 2:1-4), and make these foreigners “joyful” in His house of prayer.
In this new, spiritual “house of prayer,” their worship, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices, will be accepted by God because this new spiritual temple will be a universal temple: “My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.” This verse is quoted by Jesus (along with Jeremiah 7:11) in Matthew 21:13; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46.
There is no single nationality, race, ethnic group, family, clan, tribe, or other that belongs exclusively to God. His church is a house of prayer (temple) open to all the peoples.
–Paul Holland
