Victory over Death - Isaiah 25:1-12

Isaiah 25:1-12

Isaiah 25:1–12 “O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners’ palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you. For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall, like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down. On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill. And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the Lord will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands. And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.”

Theological Focus of the text.

V.1 exultation, praise, sovreign plans

V.2 what/who is the city - defeat of foreigners at the hand of God

V.3-5 God has victory over hi s enemies and protects the poor and needy

V.6 text shifts to a future Glory - a future that is wonderful - the feast of Christ?

V.7 God will swallow up the veil - sin?

V.8 God will defeat death and suffering - every tear will be wiped away - Rev 21 allusion?

V.9 his people will rejoice on the day of salvation those who ahve waited for him

V.10 God will protect his people and his enemies will fail - Moab a representation of sinful humanity

V.11-12 all that oppose God will be brought to dust at the end of time.

Theological focus - God is worthy of all praise as the one who delivers humans from the veil of sin and defeats death. we can rejoice in our salvation and our waiting knowing the promise of restoration and the feast that is waiting for all of Gods people.

Explanation - verses 6-8 -

Move = Gods grand plan for the nations

revelation = Gods grand plan for the nations is a future glory in which death is swallowed up and suffering is no more it is illustrated as a grand feast for all the nations that takes place on the mountian the place in Which God is dwelling at this feast this section describes a future Glory where the veil which was a image for mounring is lifted its not only lifted but its swallowed up its destroyed the following verse gives us a clue to the meaning of wha the veil is veils is symbolic of deaths grip on the world that it affects all people verse 8 confirms this when it tells us that ultimately the veil the covering and death itslef will be swallowed up on that day.

Relevance = if this is true then it means there will be a day where this great feats takes place when God will wipe away every tear and we as the people of god will rejoice and be glad as death is defeated and God is glorified this same idea in isaiah is picked up the book of revelation in chapter 21 the day in which every tear will wipe away and we know that we can have confidence in this future hope because it has been assured by Jesus the apostle paul picks up on this in 1 corinthians 15:54 he explains how we can be assured of this hope becasue of Jesus death and ressurection

Application - two things one is response which is to praise him as isaiah tells us will happen but sceondly we have great hope even in the greatest challenges of life because we know one day this great feast will take place and every tear will be wiped away.