Verses 1-12, “O Lord, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt. Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You. For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones will be diminished. And in this mountain The Lord of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And 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; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” For on this mountain the hand of the Lord will rest, And Moab shall be trampled down under Him, As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap. And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands. The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust.”
God's history of doing wonderful things is why we should come to the logical conclusion that it is right to praise Him. After all, He is faithful and true. Therefore, when He brings down haughty people and nations, we know that He is acting justly, even if we don't see the whole picture. When God judges the whole earth during the tribulation, there will be no one crying that it is unfair. In fact, even the unrighteous (the terrible nations) will praise the name of Jesus. Philippians 2:9-11, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
In the mountain, God will make a feast for His people. Revelation 19:7-9, “Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.” The sad thing is that although many were invited to be part of God's kingdom, only few will be chosen and receive the blessings He has prepared. Again, no one will be able to say that it is unfair. We all have been granted a choice in the matter.
In this day when the Lord swallows up death and we no longer are tempted by sin, there will be no more need of correction and rebuke. This is something that believers should all look forward to. It is all too common for Christians to cling to the things of this world because they do not have faith in the unseen of what will come. Rather than your sins being accepted by your church, you should be taught to be grieved by your sins, and long to be free from your sinful nature. The whole purpose of correction is to elicit Godly sorrow that leads to fruits of righteousness. What a day to look forward to, when we are no longer tempted by evil, and do not need discipline. Romans 7:23-25, “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
“He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken. And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the LORD; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.””
ReplyDeleteIsaiah 25:8-9
There is a day that is coming when there will be no more death or tears. As christians we are waiting for the return of Christ. For Him to come set up His kingdom here on earth. But until that day, we need to waiting and being ready for His return. We do not want to be like five foolish virgins without any oil. We need to be ready! He is coming at time we least expect it and if we are prepared, we will not be ready. If there is anything in our life, we do not want to be doing at the moment of when He comes. We need to get rid of it know. We can't just keep on doing the same things and think we have time to change. We might never have a change to make things right, so we need to make it right now. Not when we feel like it.