Isaiah 56.

1-8: 'For my salvation is near to come'

The theme of salvation is nothing new in the plan of God. He promised the salvation from sins
right in the beginning when Adam and Eve fell into sin; God said to the serpent: „ And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.” (Gen 3.15) And from this point we can see how God draws the line
of the history of salvation leading Christ, during His life here on Earth and after through His people
and the Holy Spirit.
The book of Isaiah is seriously dealing with the salvation of mankind. This is a key book if you
would like to understand the whys and the hows in the plan of God according to salvation. The
previous chapters contain some similar contents:
• Judgment: God is judging His people, Israel for being disobedient and for not trusting in
God. God is also judging the nations for 'helping' Israel to fall into sin and for being enemies
of them.