What does the preacher herald? What is the good news referred to here? Since verse 16 is a quotation of Isaiah 52:7, we do well to go back and let Isaiah define it for us. Listen for what Cotton Mather heard in this verse concerning the great design of Christian preaching. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” The good tidings of the preacher, the peace and salvation that he publishes, are boiled down into one sentence: “Your God reigns!”
