Isaiah 25:6 “And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.”
“Death” is the enemy of life that we cannot defeat, neither can we recover ourselves from it. In our natural mind, it is the permanent end of all things to us; it is the end from which we cannot return. The prophetic message here is that one day in the future, Our Lord would “swallow up death in victory”; that is, He would totally defeat “death” by raising His own body to life after He had sacrificially given up His life. Now we know that He has fulfilled the Prophecy, He has Risen and has “ascended up on high” (Ephesians 4:8). And, as the Lord told “Martha”, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:” (John 11:25); therefore, one blessed and holy day, in an instant, “the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (I Thessalonians 4:16-17). Also, the Children of God will hear “the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:34) and, the Children of God that remain alive when the Lord comes shall be instantly changed: “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” (I Corinthians 15:52). We fear dying because our natural mind cannot comprehend what is beyond “death”. Death severely saddens us because it seems to us that all of life’s pleasures and acquaintances are forever lost to us. Yet, the spiritual mind, having been raised from spiritual death to spiritual life (Ephesians 2:1,5), is blessed by our Creator to gaze with pleasant anticipation upon the glorious state that awaits us beyond death. By Faith, we know that “The Lord is risen indeed” (Luke 24:34); therefore, after Spiritual Birth, we greatly rejoice when we hear the Gospel Preached, declaring that “our Saviour Jesus Christ … hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (II Timothy 1:10); that is, through the Gospel Message our Lord gives His Children “light”, knowledge and understanding, that “death” is not eternal and that, at the very instant of “death”, our Lord conveys our soul/spirit (Ecclesiastes 12:7) to His Heavenly “paradise” (Luke 23:43) to await the Great Resurrection Day.