July 4, 2025 - Isaiah 62:2 - "The Church of the LORD Jesus Christ"

Isaiah 62:2

"And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name."

This prophetic word finds its fulfillment in the finished redemptive work of Christ, Who has brought in everlasting righteousness for His people—both Jew and Gentile. No longer identified by national or ceremonial distinctions, God’s elect are now called by a new name—Christians—those who are in Christ, justified by His blood, and made glorious by His obedience. This verse celebrates the gospel age ushered in by the cross, where the Righteousness of Christ is revealed and made known to the nations, not as an offer, but as an accomplished reality for all whom the Father gave the Son. Here, the Spirit of the LORD directs Isaiah to prophecy of the church of the LORD Jesus Christ, which was to be called by a new name. 

Who are her members? 

Gentiles: Nations (Jew and Gentile)- sinners whom the LORD has redeemed to God out of every tribe, nation, and tongue- Revelation 5:9, 10.

By what name is she called?

Just as in a traditional wedding, the bride takes the name of the husband, so here, prophetically, it is declared that the church, as the bride of Christ, would be given a new name (i.e. her married name, as in Christ’s church, or the church of the Redeemed ones).  She is here spoken of in the singular ‘Thou’ although she is made up of many members that the Father chose, and Christ redeemed, and the Spirit has called and is yet calling out. In Revelation 21:9 she is called Christ’s body, and the bride, the Lamb’s wife.  These have been loved from eternity and for eternity, and are built on a covenant that can never be broken by the LORD Himself- John 17:23, 24. 

What love!  What unconditional love! I John 4:10. Christ, her living Head, most certainly and definitively purchased her, in a way of strict justice, with His most precious blood.  Although having been born with the maiden name of sinner, she is now called by a new name…’RIGHTEOUS,’ v. 2 (Him Who is thy Righteousness).  The effect of the LORD Jesus’ death is that the church is called Holy, Redeemed and Not Forsaken, Isaiah 62:12. 

Regardless of the earthly denomination, the one common denominator that every one of the LORD’S redeemed ones share is that HE sought them in the lost ruins of sin and the fall, perhaps in religion. Although HE found them in a most miserable and damnable condition, YET, He calls them by ‘a new name’ and their sins and iniquities neither He nor His Father can/shall ever remember any more- “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more”, Hebrews 8:12.

Who is her Founder and Maker?

‘Which the mouth of the LORD shall name’ Whosever's name the bride bears speaks to the glory of the One who has taken her to Himself. While many women today are keeping their maiden names, so as not to have to change back when the marriage goes awry, and the spouse has not been what he pretended…'to have and to hold so long as we both shall live,’ such is not the case with the LORD Jesus. He has been faithful unto death, and He ever lives now to intercede on behalf of His own, Hebrews 7:25.

Here is how we see the glorious fulfillment of God’s redemptive purpose in Christ, Who has called His elect out of every nation and named them with a new name—His own. This was not a promise left suspended in time, but a prophecy fulfilled in the finished work of the cross and the establishment of the true Zion, the Church, composed of believing Jews and Gentiles made one in Christ.

The “new name” speaks of the new identity and righteousness given by grace, not earned by law, but bestowed through the merit of Christ alone. No longer forsaken, no longer hidden, the people of God shine forth with the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, declared openly before all nations. In Him, the prophecy is not merely hope for a distant future—it is the realized glory of God’s covenant fulfilled. Let every believer rest in the assurance that we are known, named, and kept by the LORD our Righteousness, Who has made us His own.

There is no name so sweet and precious than the Name of the LORD Jesus, and no privilege so great as to be called by that Name.  The wedding is celebrated with the new wine of Gospel peace and love that is put into new bottles, not the old. There is a new song being sung as well, that is ‘Salvation to the Lamb that was slain,’ Revelation 5:9. ‘If any man so be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new,’ (2 Corinthians 5:17).