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.” Isaiah 25.6–9
This passage of
Scripture is a good reminder of what our future holds. There will be a feast.
And feasts are things you do to celebrate happy times: weddings, anniversaries,
birthdays. On that day we will certainly have reason to celebrate something
happy: God will swallow up death. It will be gone in all its ugly, evil forms.
We will need to wait
for Him to save us, but He will. And when He does, we will be glad and rejoice
in His salvation. And we will do that every day forever.