People will look at you, and they will see Me. The people who I have called will be people of peace. And the world will change because of them. But Isaiah is also very realistic about the evil and the injustice which is all around us. Prophets are not unrealistic.
Prophets are terribly realistic.
They see what evil is in the lives of human beings, and they call it for what it is. Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. When I listen to the teaching of Jesus, I find a lot of echoes of Isaiah in it. There's a whole lot of Isaiah in the teaching of Jesus. When people were waiting for the coming of the Messiah, they didn't have a lot of detail to base their hopes on.