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The prayer of the righteous and the response of the Lord of Hosts, The Lord of Hosts decide

The last three chapters of the book of Isaiah's prophecy report in the prayer of a deported people who turn to God in hope of liberation and God's response to that invocation. This

Prayer starts with an invocation of the memory of the goodness of God in time past (63:7-14). Without such a premise could approach any believer in faith to make any request to God The memory of his goodness, instead, fills our hearts with hope, knowing that as God spoke so powerfully in the past will still intervene to help us in the future. The goodness recalled by the prophets concerning the great deliverance which the Lord of Hosts be implemented for the people of Israel at the time of Pharaoh. In these verses three times was named the Holy Spirit:
v.10 "they grieved the Holy Spirit." The Holy Spirit is pleased or saddened by the behavior of the believer. This brings us back to Ephesians 4:25-32. Then the Holy Spirit lived among the people of God (Is 63:11) now lives in the heart of the believer, but now as then he rejoices os'indigna based on the conduct of the Christian.
v.11-12 "made his glorious arm to go." The Holy Spirit has all the power needed to perform the works of God This force is now a resource in every child of God (Acts 1:8)
v14 "Spirit of the Lord brought them to rest." The Holy Spirit is for us God's guidance into all truth (John 16:12).

Isaiah's prayer and then turns to the miserable condition of the people: v19 "we have become like those you've never governed, as those who do not carry your name! "and ends with the request for direct intervention by God: v.64: 1" Oh, you would rend the heavens and come down. "

God wants to answer this prayer and its answer can be summed up as follows (Isaiah 65:8-12): "Like when you find the fruit in a cluster, it is said, not destroy it because there's a blessing, "I will do so for the sake of my servants, and not destroy everything. I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and Judah an inheritor of my mountains, my chosen shall inherit the land, my servants shall dwell there ... But you who forsake the Lord ... I will destiny of the sword. " There is a faithful remnant (Rm11) that although the punishment of the people involved will survive to enter the glory in the "new heavens and new earth" (Isaiah 65:17-66:22) which God has prepared for those who love him.

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