And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
There shall be an highway for the remnant of his people - clear of obstructions (Isaiah 19:23; Isaiah 35:8).
Like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of ... Egypt - (Isaiah 51:10-11; Isaiah 63:12-13.)
Remarks: The destruction of the Assyrian's antitype, Antichrist, ushers in the reign of Christ. Beginning as the tender "rod" out of the stock of Jesse, cut down to "the stem," He shall ultimately manifest Himself as Jesse's root, "which shall stand for an ensign of the people." Born of the lowly but royal Virgin, and lodged at His birth in the inn of Bethlehem, He is, on the very ground of His voluntary assumed humiliation, entitled to the highest place of dominion on earth. Not only has He the title, but also the qualifications for reigning as the Father's Representative. The seven-fold fullness of Yahweh's spirit is His without measure, whereas all others get only a particular measure out of that fullness. It not merely is His for a time, but it permanently 'rests' upon Him. Unlike earthly kings and judges, who judge by sight and outward appearance, He sees deeply into the realities of persons and things, so that intuitively and at once He can discern between the good and the bad, the godly and the wicked (Isaiah 11:3).
And as He is infallible in forming His "counsels," so is He almighty in executing them. His reign shall be ushered in by his smiting the apostate earth with the rod of His mouth. The rod of Antichrist, the antitype to the Assyrian, shall be set aside by the rod of Messiah, who "with the breath of His lips shall slay the wicked." The cause of 'the poor and the meek' who shall have suffered under Antichrist shall be vindicated by their Redeemer, who "shall destroy the man of sin with the brightness of His coming." Then shall a blessed day dawn on the heretofore oppressed earth. Righteousness and truth, long set at nought, shall then prevail under His just and benignant sway. The pagan poets' dream of the golden age shall then be a joyful reality. The animal kingdom, which has been 'made subject to vanity' because of man's fall, shall, according to their kind, share in man's redemption from misery. The cause being removed, the effect too shall cease.