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Season 6, Podcast 78, Isaiah 25:1-12, “Death Swallowed up in Victory.”

June 30, 2025 • Ronald • Season 6 • Episode 78

Season 6, Podcast 78, Isaiah 25:1-12, “Death Swallowed up in Victory.”

Isaiah 24 deals with the devastation of the wicked just prior to the Second Coming. Isaiah 25 deals with the exaltation of the righteous. Isaiah 25 is an extension of the last verse of Isaiah 24.

Isaiah 24:23.

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isaiah praises the Lord.

Isaiah 25:1

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

That is a condemnation of those who ignored the counsels of old and transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broke the everlasting covenant. A curse was placed on them.

Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

The Lord will strengthen the righteous.

Isaiah 25:3-4

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

The above are among the most hopeful verses of scripture because Isaiah is promising those who are faithful during the days of tribulation that they will endure the terrible storms of the signs of the times. God will be a refuge from the storm.

The righteous will be spared, but the wicked will be destroyed.

Isaiah 25:5

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

Not only will the righteous be spared, they shall be exalted in Mount Zion. They will have a great feast.

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.

The veil of darkness shall be lifted.

Isaiah 25:7

And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

That echoes an earlier promise of the Lord.

Isaiah 11:9

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

At the Second Coming of the Lord the righteous shall be resurrected.

Isaiah 25:8

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.

The apostle Paul speaks of those who are caught up when Christ comes again.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

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.

John the Revelator, in beautiful language, describes the hope of the righteous.

Revelation 7:13-17

And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.