135 Divine Unrest before Israel's Redemption

It is the Lord Jesus the Jewish Messiah who continues to speak here. He is saying that He is making preparation for His earthly appearance the second time. This time it will be for the restoration of His people Israel in the 1,000-year Messianic Kingdom also known as the Millennial Kingdom. God is promising not to be "silent" as He was in the past (Isaiah 42:14; 57:11; 64:12; 65:6), when He issued them a bill of divorcement due to their exceedingly sinful lifestyle. Thus, He will intervene and act on behalf of His people. This Jesus who is the Servant was commissioned to restore Israel and bring salvation to Jacob and the nations (Isaiah 49:6), to bring justice and salvation to all people (Isaiah 42:1–4; 62:1b), and to intercede on behalf of sinners (Isaiah 53:12). Now He speaks here promising the fulfillment of His commission.

The Servant commits Himself with urgency of seeing the fulfillment of God's plan to bring salvation to Zion. As previously expressed, He will continue to "preach the good news" and "proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" and "comfort all who mourn" (Isaiah 61:1–3) so that Zion would repent of her sins and receive God's Spirit and covenant (Isaiah 59:20–21). The essence of this commitment is not to be silent. Here He provides assurance to all that absolutely everything is being done to bring about Zion's day of salvation.