A New Shoot From An Old Stump

Passage:  Isaiah 11:1-10, 16

Have you ever had one of those conversations with an excited four-year-old who has so much they want to tell you and they use “and” about a hundred times as they string together one excited thought after another.

Isaiah 11 is like that.  Every single verse except verse 9 starts with the Hebrew word for and.  Just in our verses printed in our bulletin there are 27 ands in the original (19 in the ESV).

We should read this with a sort of breathless pace, with an increasing heart rate as Isaiah describes the Messianic reign with excited anticipation, piling on one detail after another.  It should be the way we think about the future second coming of the Messiah, excited expectation.