Alright, if you'll turn with
me to Isaiah 25. I want to read again to you verse
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
leaves, the fat things full of morrow, of wines on the leaves
well refined. 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. 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. And it shall be said in that
day, lo, 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
in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall
be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for
the dunghill." Now, we see this word, in this mountain, repeated
here three times. And we find this phrase a lot
in Scripture, in this mountain. You know, in this earth, it was
the city of Jerusalem, Mount Zion. That earthly mount was
set up of God as the central point where his truth would spread
out into the nation of Israel. Just that nation. God chose this people and left
all the rest of the earth in darkness. He chose this people.
He made them into a nation. He made this city Jerusalem to
be the focal point. This Mount Zion to be the focal
point. He gave them a king. He gave
them a prophet. He gave them a high priest. He gave them His oracles, His
law, His ceremonies. He gave them all things whereby
He makes Himself known unto His people. He didn't give it to
anybody else around them. Just to these people. And that
city Jerusalem, that Mount Zion, was the focal point among His
people. That was the place where His
people went to. That's where the house of the
Lord was, the temple was, where they went to, where the high
priest was with the Lamb, where the King reigned in the city
of Jerusalem. It was the place, it was the
central point of everything in that nation, in that one nation. But that earthly mountain was
but a shadow of the church of God which Christ reigns over
from heavenly Jerusalem. That's what it was. I want to
talk to you about this mountain. And I want to give you three
divisions for our message this morning. Number one, the earthly
mountain. Number two, the spiritual mountain.
And number three, the glorious mountain. Now according to Isaiah's
word that he delivered from the beginning of this prophecy of
Isaiah, he declared the Lord's counsel of old. And if you want
to get right down to simplify prophecy, it's this.
Just like the law, just like all the prophets, it's all serving
this one purpose, to glorify the Son of God. It's not to get
you all twisted up about what's going to happen in the future
and me looking for devils and people coming and looking for
signs and trying to pick out times. See, the Lord quite simply
said, that's not for you to know. Just not. Prophecy and the law
is given to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, to glorify God
in three persons who saves through Christ Jesus his son and to glorify
him who purposed, who carried it out, and who is making it
effectual in the hearts and shall complete it. Salvation is of
the Lord. This is what prophecy is about.
And Isaiah was sent forth and he was declaring God's counsel
of old is he's going to destroy this temple in Jerusalem He's
going to destroy this city in Jerusalem. He's going to destroy
this nation and scatter this people. That's what Isaiah was
going forth to declare. And the Lord did it. He quite
literally did what he says here in verse 2. Thou hast made of
a city a heap, a defense city a ruin, a palace of strangers
to be no city. Over in Isaiah 64. Isaiah says,
Thy holy cities are a wilderness. Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem
a desolation. But the Lord had to do this because
when He did all this for that one nation, what He also showed
us was our own spiritual depravity. Because that one nation latched
on to the ceremonies He gave, latched on to the law He gave,
latched on to the carnal things He gave. and said, we'll take
this and we'll gladly do all these things. But we don't want
to have anything to do with God. We don't want to have anything
to do with your salvation. And God had to destroy everything
that he had made. He purposed to do this from the
beginning. That was just a blueprint. That was just a foreshadowing
to show what he's doing in the whole world. And he purposed
it from the beginning. But he had to destroy it and
take that carnal out of the hands of his elect remnant among this
people to make them to behold that all these things pointed
to something far more glorious and far more mighty and far more
wonderful. And that is what Christ Jesus
accomplished. And that's what He has to do
for us. He has to make us to know that the law declares us
guilty. Dead in trespasses and in sins.
Unable to come to God. Unable to meet God. Unable to
do anything of ourselves to make ourselves accepted with God.
We can't do that, brethren. Time you learn that now. Somebody
needs to tell you the truth about it now. If you've never heard
it before, you need to know it now. You can't come to God with
anything in your hands. You've got to come clinging to
Christ alone. And so he has to make everything
that is our confidence, our carnal confidence, he has to make it
into a wilderness and a desolation. That's what he has to do. I pray
he'll do it this day. First of all, let's look at this
earthly mountain. Now in time, The Lord would gather
his elect from among the Jews. He had scattered them. He had
scattered them to the four winds. This is what Isaiah was declaring
all through. He took away the whole stay and
staff of Judah and he scattered his people into the four corners
of the earth, mingled them amongst the people so that it was not
a nation. They were scattered. But he said
in time, he said, I'm going to turn my hand upon you and I'm
going to gather you back to me. Look over at Zechariah. Zechariah
chapter 8. Zechariah chapter 8, in verse 3. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned
unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem
shall be called a city of truth, and a mountain of the Lord of
hosts, the holy mountain. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
Thereso yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem,
and every man with his staff in his hand for very age." He
said, I'm really going to bring you back to this earthly mountain.
I'm going to bring you back to this earthly Jerusalem. Verse
7, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will save my people
from the east country and from the west country. And I will
bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And
they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth
and in righteousness." You see, not all Israel was his people,
but he had some among Israel that was his people. And he said,
I'm bringing you back to this city. Verse 20, Thus saith the
Lord of hosts, It shall yet come to pass that there shall come
people, and the inhabitants of many cities, and the inhabitants
of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to
pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts. I will
go also. Yea, many people and strong nations
shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray
before the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take
hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go
with you, for we have heard that God is with you. Now turn back
to Isaiah chapter 2, verse 2. We're still talking about this
earthly mountain, just a moment. Isaiah 2, verse 2. And it shall come to pass in
the last days. Keep talking about these last
days. in that day, these last days. The last days is the gospel
age, brethren. We're in it right now. Have been
since the Lord came. It's the day of the Lord. This
is His day. Has been for 2,000 years. The day of the Lord. Now, He
says, "...and it shall come to pass in the last days that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top
of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills." Now
on one hand he's speaking in lofty terms here about this mountain
because Christ Jesus, the image of God, the express image of
God was coming into this earthly mountain. He was coming to that
earthly city Jerusalem and he was going to be the glory of
it, the glory of that city and the glory of that mountain while
he walked in. He said, I'm the light of the
world. That's what, when he came in, he's the light, he's the
glory of it. And then, literally, it was in
that earthly mountain. It was in this mountain that
he made this feast of fat things. In that earthly mountain, he
called out his apostles. He gathered them back in just
like he said he would there in Zechariah. He gathered his elect
to Jerusalem and he called out his apostles as he lived on this
earth for 33 1⁄2 years. For 3 1⁄2 of his ministry, he
called out his apostles. He taught them. He established
those that were going to preach His gospel. John the Baptist
actually came first, and as he said, he came restoring all things. He came preaching what Christ
was going to do, what the Law and the Prophets had said. He's
restoring things back to this mountain. And he came, and after
he had assembled his apostles and his disciples that he called
out by his grace, He honored God's law, magnified God's law. He went to the cross and He laid
down His life on Mount Calvary and He put away the sin of His
people. He justified His people by Himself. He sanctified His people by His
one offering. He brought in the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to God. He brought it in Himself. He
obtained for us an eternal inheritance prepared, reserved in heaven
for those that He went to prepare that place for. This is in this
mountain on Calvary Street This is what he did by the shedding
of his own blood by laying down his own life for every single
person that he Represented he accomplished this for them in
this mountain now look there at verse 2 Isaiah 2 2 He's at
the very end He says, and He's going to exalt this above the
hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people
shall go and say, Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the
Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us
of His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion
shall go forth the law, the gospel, and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem. That sounds like what He said
over there in Zechariah, doesn't it? The Gospel of Christ began
in the earthly mount called Zion. That's where it began to be spread
forth, in that earthly city Jerusalem. And it spread out of Zion, from
Jerusalem, into all the world. So there's an earthly fulfillment
of what's written here. He prepared this feast in this
mountain, in this earthly mountain. He really did it. But Christ
arose from the dead, and He arose to new Jerusalem, in heaven. And so this mountain refers spiritually
to His church. It's a spiritual mountain. The
Lord's house, the substance, it's His holy mountain to which
His elect are drawn from Heaven's Jerusalem where He teaches His
Word in the hearts of His people. I want you to hold your place
here in our text, Isaiah 25. Go with me to Acts chapter 2.
Acts chapter 2. I'm sorry, Acts chapter 1. Now the majority in Israel and
Judah, like we saw this morning, we talked about it this morning,
how they've been taught the law, they've been taught the prophets,
they've been taught all their lives that when the Lord came,
when the Messiah came, He was going to restore the kingdom
to Israel And what they imagined and what they thought it meant
was he was going to restore it back like it was in the days
of King David. When it was a flourishing empire
and the Israelites had it made. That's what they thought. An
earthly kingdom and all our sorrows are going to be taken away and
we're going to be the reigning kingdom in this earth. That's
what they thought. Even his own apostles thought
that. His disciples thought that. that
He had called out by His grace and taught as He walked through
this earth. He told them personally. He told them personally. He said,
My kingdom is not of this earth. He told them personally that
not one stone was going to be left upon another in the temple
at Jerusalem. He was going to destroy that
place completely. And He did it in 70 A.D. He told
them He was going to do that. He told them when the veil, when
He cried out from the cross and said, It is finished! He fulfilled the law and the
prophets. He fulfilled everything that
was written. He fulfilled the whole law of God. Christ is the
end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And
that veil in that temple split from top to bottom and opened
up and there wasn't an ark inside. There wasn't anything in there
because the ark is God. The ark is Christ Jesus our Lord
in whom the law was written. in whom the law is honored, the
mercy seat, who shed his own blood for the sins of his people.
And they saw these things. They knew these things. He even,
when he was resurrected from the dead, he came to them and
he assembled them back together and he said to them, all power
in heaven and in earth is given to me. All power in heaven and
in earth is mine. But they've been taught to look
for this earthly kingdom. They've been taught to look for
this earthly king. They expected a throne to be
established in Jerusalem, that earthly city, in that earthly
mount. When they heard Isaiah declare these things, they only
saw it with carnal eyes. They only heard it with carnal
ears. This is what they're expecting. And here's what they ask Him.
Acts 1.6. When they therefore were come together, they asked
of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the
kingdom to Israel? Now this is His people. These
are those that He's... This is His apostles and His
disciples and they're still thinking this. Listen how tenderly He
deals with them. And He said unto them, It is
not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father
hath put in His own power. But ye shall receive power after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Now the church was about
to be baptized into the Holy Ghost. The whole Church of God
was about to be baptized into the Holy Ghost. Right there at
earthly Jerusalem, right there in that earthly mount, Peter
and the others were about to be made to understand the true
nature of this glorious promise that the Law and the Prophet
spoke of, this Kingdom of God. They were about to understand
the true nature of this Kingdom. Our text said, And Isaiah 25,
7, it said, He will destroy in this mountain the face of the
covering cast over all people and the veil that is spread over
all nations. Now, we saw in those accounts
we read of the prophecies how that all these different nations
were going to come and all these different nations were going
to praise Him and rejoice and glorify His name. Not all, everybody
in the nations, but the people out of the nations. You see,
in reality, God regards America, the United States of America,
as those redeemed, regenerated saints who live in America. Everybody
else is just scaffolding and supporting them. They're just
there to support His people. But the nation is His people.
The nation is the children of God. In Germany, the nation is
His elect remnant that are saved by His grace. The rest, they're
just there supporting them. And so it is in every nation
in the earth. And all those out of every nation make up one nation.
And it's called Israel, spiritual Israel, God's people. Now, That's
what he said. In this mountain, I'm going to
take this covering off and I'm going to make my people from
among all the nations to know the reality of my kingdom, to
know the reality of my reign, the reality of my power and what
I'm doing. Now, this comes to our second
point, the spiritual mountain. So it came to pass here in Acts
2. Stay there with me. At Pentecost, in that mountain,
the Holy Ghost was poured out and they began to preach the
gospel in languages they had never learned. That's what speaking
in tongues was. They spoke in tongues and languages
they had never learned before, foreign languages. And the Lord
removed the covering through his gospel, declaring to those
he made new in the heart, a new day, a new Jerusalem, a new kingdom
is established. Now let's see it. Verse 5, Acts
2, 5. And there was dwelling at Jerusalem
Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now he said
he was going to bring them all back, didn't he? He said, I'm
going to bring back my people here and they're going to hear
this. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together
and were confounded, because to every man heard them speak
in his own language." The Holy Ghost has been poured out, they're
preaching the gospel, and every man here hears him in his own
language. And he said, I'm going to do this now, and it's going
to be, I'm going to do this upon all nations. Now look at verse
9, look who's here at this place. Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites,
and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and in Cappadocia,
in Pontus, in Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and
in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews,
and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
tongues the wonderful works of God. Now all along that's what
he said he was going to do. He literally was going to bring
them to this mountain where he prepared this feast of fat things.
But now he's going to make known something else. He's going to
make known there's a greater mountain than this mountain.
There's a greater Jerusalem than this Jerusalem. There's a throne
with more power than any earthly throne. And some of these fellas
heard it and they said, these men are drunk. They're drunk.
But Peter stands up and he says, no they're not drunk. Look at
verse 16. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.
Peter's got it. Peter realizes now what the prophet's
been saying all along. Listen now. This is what Joel
said. It shall come to pass in the
last days. Here we are. In the last days. Right here at Jerusalem that
day. Saith God, I will pour, I will, I will pour out of my
spirit upon all flesh. Now did everybody there have
this Spirit poured out upon them? Not everybody there did. Some
people were mocking, some people were saying, but when He says
all flesh, He poured it out upon all that He meant to pour it
out upon. And they were chosen from before the foundation of
the world in Christ Jesus, and He poured it out on them. And
he says, and what I do, your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old
men shall dream dreams, and all my servants and all my handmaids
I will pour out in those days of my spirit, and they shall
prophesy. It's not that men and women are
going to be prophets and preachers, but Christ the King, God our
Savior, through His gospel, from heaven's Jerusalem. He said the
word's going to go out of Jerusalem. He spreads forth the gospel,
and he sends forth the Holy Spirit. You know, you had to go to Jerusalem
because that's where the king, the prophet, and the priest was.
Well, in heaven's Jerusalem, you just raise up now from Israel,
and in heaven's Jerusalem, over the whole earth, there's the
prophet, there's the priest, and there's the king. sitting
on his throne in heaven's glory and from there he pours out the
Holy Spirit into the heart of his people and through the gospel
he opens up the hearts in every one of those that he bought by
his own blood and he causes them to hear and to see and to rejoice
and to sing his praises and to know that he is the king of heaven
and earth. He's the prophet who teaches
in the heart. He's the high priest who represents
us to God and makes intercession for us and comforts us in all
our afflictions. He is the one. So then we see
that Heaven's Jerusalem is where Christ is and Mount Zion is His
church. It's not just in that physical
mountain. Now, What does all this mean
when they hear all this and they see all this? It means He's King
in Christ. He's King and He's Christ. He's
King and He's Christ. He's Lord and He's Christ. He's
the Sovereign and He's the Savior. He's the Lord and He's the Savior.
He's both. Now look at verse 25. And He's
going to quote David because they're going to know David.
They're going to understand. They got the Law and the Prophets.
They're going to understand and they're going to hear David. Acts 2,
25. He said, for David speaketh concerning him. He said, now
what David said, he's speaking of Christ Jesus. Now, I just
wanted you to see that. We're going to skip for the sake
of time down to verse 30. Here's what he said David saw.
Therefore, being a prophet, David being a prophet, and knowing
that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his
loins, from his own loin, his son, According to the flesh,
he would raise up Christ to do what? To sit on his throne. He's seen this before, spake
of the resurrection of Christ. David knew it wasn't going to
be an earthly throne, it was going to be a glorious throne.
that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see
corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we are all witnesses," Peter said. He's done it. He's
raised him up to his throne just like David said he would. Now
verse 33, Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted,
and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,
he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear. This Holy
Spirit, this unction from on high, this power to speak, to
know the Gospel, to understand the Gospel, He's done this through
the Holy Spirit. For David's not ascended into
the heavens. David's not the king, but he
saith himself, David said himself, the Lord said unto my Lord, Sit
thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool. Verse 36, this is the conclusion. Therefore, let all the house
of Israel know assuredly, without any doubt, that God hath made
that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord, that means
King, and Christ, Messiah, Savior, He's the Christ. He's the King
Christ, the King Savior. His throne is not an earthly
throne. It's in heaven's Jerusalem. His holy mountain is not an earthly
mountain. It's His church. It's made up of people. His people
are not Jews only, but they're elect from among the Gentiles.
What a feast! Do you see a feast? Be looking
at Hebrews 12 with me. Hebrews 12. The Hebrew writer tells us we've
not come to Mount Sinai, that mountain that could be touched,
that earthly mountain that trembled and quaked like a volcano when
God gave the law. We haven't come to the law, we
haven't come to Moses, we haven't come to an earthly mountain that
might be touched. Here's where we've come to, believer.
Look at verse 22. But ye are come unto Mount Zion,
There's that mountain. And unto the city of the living
God. He said that's where His people
were going to flow to. He said they're going to flow
to it. They're going to come to it. Out of all the nations,
I'm going to bring my people and they're going to flow to
this city. They're going to flow to this mountain. The heavenly Jerusalem. You've come to an innumerable
company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, to God, the judge of all, and
to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to the Jesus, the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling
that speaketh better things than that of Abel. God said, I've
set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. Thy throne, O God, is
forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter
of thy kingdom." That's what God said to his son. Isaiah cried
out, he said, thou hast increased the nation. You've increased
the nation. You've glorified, you've removed
it unto all the ends of the earth. It was just, we thought it was
just right here. We thought it was just going
to be on this little earthly mountain and you've made us to
see you've got a people throughout all the nations of this world
in your church. And as this mountain moves, did
you know this mountain moves? This mountain goes places. Because
this mountain is a people. This mountain is made up of His
people. It's His church. The church is
not a building. The church is not walls. The
church is a people. And in this mountain, as this
mountain goes forth and spreads this feast of fat things, The
prophet, priest, and king from heavenly Jerusalem sends forth
the Spirit into the heart, and He makes this delightful. He takes the covering from off
the heart. He makes the sinner to behold
Christ Jesus the Lord, to rejoice in His fullness, to rejoice in
what He has accomplished, the salvation of our souls, to know
that we can't come into condemnation anymore. We can't fall away. He says, He says, no man, no
man can pluck them out of my father's hand and no man can
pluck them out of his hand. He said, I'm going to call them.
They're going to hear my voice. They're going to follow me. And
he told him when he sent them forth into all the nations and
to the uttermost part of the earth, he said, I'm going to
be with you everywhere you go. That's a king. That's a king
like no other. That's a king who's ever present
with his people, ever working amongst his people, who shall
not fail. That's the kind of king we're
talking about. That's the power we're talking about. And when
he creates this new heart, our center of attention, It's not
an earthly Jerusalem. It's not an earthly mountain.
It's not an earthly people. Just like it was typified in
that mountain in the earth, that mountain in Jerusalem, which
was the center of attention for that one nation, you know where
our center of attention is? Christ Jesus on His throne in
heaven's Jerusalem. That's where our center of attention
is. That's where we focus all our attention is on Him in glory. This is a spiritual mountain.
I'm going to show you one more thing in 2 Corinthians 3.17.
2 Corinthians 3.17. Now he said, I want to just point out a few
things to you here. I had you look here last time we were in
this text, but I just want to point out a few things to you.
Look there in verse 1. 2 Corinthians 3.1. Paul said, Do we begin to commend
ourselves, or need we, as some epistles of commendation to you,
or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle, written
in our hearts, known and read of all men. Forasmuch as ye are
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ministered
by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living
God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the
heart. You see, everything about that first covenant was earthy. It was carnal. It was of an earthly
mountain. That's what I showed you in that
earthly mountain to begin with. But now we see everything that
Christ does is spiritual. It's of the Spirit of God. It's
written in the heart, not on tablets of stone. Look at verse
5. He says, we're not sufficient
of ourselves, our sufficiencies of God, verse 6, who also hath
made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter. I'm not here declaring to you
today what you should do and should not do according to the
letter of the law. That's what the old covenant
did. I'm here declaring to you what Christ has done, that He
has fulfilled. that the covenant is ratified,
it's sure, it's accomplished, and Christ has done it. Not of
the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth. That's
what the old covenant is, that's what the law does, it kills you,
but the spirit gives life. Now he says that ministration
of death, it was written, it was engraved on stones, but he
said It was glorious. So much so that when Moses came
down out of the mountain, he had to put a veil over his face
because the people couldn't look upon him because his face was
shining so much. It was glorious. But because
just like that veil was over his face, the veil was over their
hearts. the hearts of His people, and
they couldn't see to the end of that law. They couldn't see
Christ at the end of that law, but He was coming. And so it
is today. Men can't see Christ in these
scriptures. Men can't see... If you go to
the law of God, looking for life, you'll find death. If you go
to the law of God, looking for Christ, you'll find life. This
word can only be interpreted by the light of Christ. And that's
what the ministering of this spiritual ministry does, is He
sends forth life. He writes His law in the heart,
and He makes you to know Him, and to believe Him, and to trust
Him. Look down at verse 17. Now the Lord is that Spirit,
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And we
are with open face. The veil's been taken off. Off
of the heart, the covering's been removed. Just as he said,
this is the mountain in his church. This is where he does this. As
in a glass, we behold the glory of the Lord, and we're changed
into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit
of the Lord. He said, I'm going to take you
from death to spiritual life. I'm going to swallow up death
in victory. He said, I'm going to take you from sorrow to joy.
I'm going to wipe away the tears from the faces of all whom I
regenerate. That's what He said in Isaiah
25. He said, I'm going to take you from rebuke to reconciliation,
to acceptance with God. I'm going to take the rebuke
off all my people among all the nations in the earth. I'm going
to bring them into peace with God. And that's what He does
from that glory, that death to life. And also, just like you
go, you have to eat, don't you? Can you stay away from your earthly
table? If you can stay away from the
bread from heaven, from this feast of fat things, it's a sure
sign you got no hunger, no life for Christ. If you can stay away
from it. If you can take it or leave it, it's a sure sign you
don't know Christ. You don't know Him. Because I
tell you what, if you think you can go without this food, as
long as you can go without this food, go without your earthly
food too. Just do without both. If you can do without this, do
without that. And you'll see real fast that when it comes
to your earthly food, you're going to get hungry, you're going
to get weak, you're going to get pale, you're going to get
sickly, and if you keep going, you're going to die. That's how
it is with this word. And just like it is with your
earthly food, as He grows you with that earthly food, so with
this spiritual food He grows His people in grace. He grows
them in grace. He grows them in the knowledge
and understanding of Christ Jesus the Lord. Until this glorious
mountain comes. Now here's the third thing. The
glorious mountain. The glorious mountain. It's just
the final fulfillment of our text. It'll be in glory, brethren. Be turning to Revelation 21.
Revelation 21. I wanted you to see this before
we move on into this prophecy of Isaiah, because he's speaking
of things that really were going to happen in his day. He's speaking
of things spiritual, and he's speaking of things that's going
to come to pass in glory. And they all Now I just want
you to see the earthly mountain, the spiritual mountain, and the
glorious mountain. Now look at the end here. He
said there in Isaiah 25 verse 8, He said He is going to swallow
up death and victory in this mountain. 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. Paul said,
when this corruption puts on incorruption, when this mortality
is put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. Then that scripture
is going to be fulfilled. Now here's the final glorious
consummation. The final judgment is passed.
The great white throne judgment has passed. And this is what
John saw. Revelation 21. And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And
I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle
of God with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall
be His people, and God Himself shall be with them and be their
God. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, Neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne,"
that's where he is right now. He's right now. He that sat upon
the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write, for
these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. He's the one that did it. From
the beginning to the end, he's the one that has done it. I will
give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water
of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit
all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.