Chizuk Emunah Under the Microscope: Chapter 44

In this chapter, Troki argues that in the days of Messiah, there will be one faith and one religion throughout the world. This is prooftexted in the following verses:

By myself I have sworn;

from my mouth has gone out in righteousness

a word that shall not return:

‘To me every knee shall bow,

every tongue shall swear allegiance.’(Isaiah 45:23)

Isaiah 45 is right in the middle of what scholars call Deutero-Isaiah, which comprises chapter 40-55. This section features Isaiah's written works, as opposed to his spoken oracles. In this section, he states that God alone exists, and that there are no other gods. Yahweh will triumph over his rivals until he alone is worshiped.

“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples

to a pure speech,

that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord

and serve him with one accord.
(Zephaniah 3:9)

Awake, awake,

put on your strength, O Zion;

put on your beautiful garments,

O Jerusalem, the holy city;

for there shall no more come into you

the uncircumcised and the unclean.(Isaiah 52:1)

Also in Deutero-Isaiah.

“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,

who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.

And Jerusalem shall be holy,

and strangers shall never again pass through it.(Joel 3:17)

“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.

“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.

“For as the new heavens and the new earth

that I make

shall remain before me, says the Lord,

so shall your offspring and your name remain.

From new moon to new moon,

and from Sabbath to Sabbath,

all flesh shall come to worship before me,

declares the Lord.(Isaiah 66:17-23)

And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
(Zechariah 14:9)

As I have written in earlier posts, this is happening right now. Belief in the God of Israel has been growing for 2,000 years, to the point that over a tenth of the world worships him. This is contrasted with the time of ancient Israel, where a very tiny fraction of the population even knew who Yahweh was. Today, most of the world's population has some idea of the God of Israel, and this is directly due to the influence of his church.