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.”
That which “the LORD hath spoken” is more certain to come to pass than that the sun will rise this morning. The LORD said that our Most Beloved Lord And Savior Jesus Christ would come to this “earth” to “destroy” “the covering cast over the people”, to “swallow up death in victory”, to “wipe away tears from off all faces”, and to “take away” our “rebuke”; and, all the promises God hath made either has or shall come to pass. Paul makes it plain that “all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” (II Corinthians 1:20). Many “died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth” (Hebrews 11:13). The Word of God is filled with “the promises of God”, and we rest in them, taking great comfort in knowing that not the slightest promise will fail; even, the promise of chastisement when we fail to obey him (Isaiah 1:19-20). Our Lord put it this way, “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46)! Paul makes it perfectly clear that, “unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9” there will surely be “Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:” (Romans 2:8-10). Said simply, we are blessed in obedience to our Lord and chastened in disobedience to Him; we should take heed; “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” (Hebrews 12:6-7). May the Lord, in is His most tender mercy, move in the hearts of His children, in our day, to constrain them to declare with Joshua, “as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua 24:15).