He Was Taken Away

"The righteous man perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." Isaiah 57:1, 2 Isaiah is the royal prophet: the prophet par excellence, the pre-eminent prophet. His nomenclature is the highest in the entire Old Testament: his vocabulary is by far the widest and the most poetic and beautiful....