In the 25th chapter of Isaiah,
verse 6 we read, 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. 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 have spoken it. in this mountain. In this mountain. It is a tremendous
promise of the gospel, a tremendous prophecy of Isaiah's, of what
God will do to deliver his people, to save his people, to bless
his people. In this mountain shall a 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. He will send tremendous blessing
to his people on this mountain. This mountain. This mountain. It's both a picture of a physical
mountain, an actual place in time where God would send blessing. Outside of Jerusalem, that city
built on a hill on a mount where Christ would come and where Christ
would be led outside of the camp, outside of the city. and lifted
up in the midday sun, lifted up in the heat of the day upon
a cross where he was crucified, where he was slain, where he
died. This is a place where God sent
salvation. But it is also a picture of a
figurative place, a spiritual place. not only that mount upon
earth but that mount upon which his people are led up into eternity
through Christ, through his death, through his salvation up into
the heights, up into the entrance place of glory that place where
he will swallow up death in victory where he will bring his people
forth through the cross through the death of his son out of time
into eternity into glory as a resurrected people, as a glorious people,
where they will then stand around the throne of Jesus Christ, stand
around the throne of the Lord God, and He will wipe away all
the tears from off their faces. and the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth. He will bring them
into that glorious hope of inheritance, that glorious land for which
they have waited, that place where they will dwell with God
forevermore. That place where there is no
more sin, no more death, no more suffering, no more sorrow, no
more tears. That place where the hope of
their salvation is brought into its final, eternal promise and
fulfillment. Oh, what a mount. Oh, what a
mountain. In this mountain. The mountain. Zion. Mount Zion. The cross. the meeting place
of heaven and earth of time and eternity where sin and righteousness
met where the righteousness of God met with the sin of his people
and judged it and took it away this mountain where time and
eternity meet this mountain where God and men meet this mountain
where life and death meet in this mountain. Has God brought
you up into this mountain? Are you in this mountain? Or are you in the valleys below?
wandering around with your heads in the sand, seeking what this
world can give you, seeking your pleasure and your glory below,
running far off from God, apathetic, blind, foolish. Do you never look up? Do you
never consider Do you never think beyond time into eternity? Do
you never consider what will lay beyond the grave when one
day you're laid in it? Do you never consider what will
be beyond the 70 years or so of your life if you're granted
them? Can you only think about today? Are you down in the valley? Or has God woken you up and brought
you to a mountain, led you up high, shown you the heavens above,
and said unto you and to your soul that 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. Has he told you what he's done?
Has he said unto you, behold, this mountain? The chapter begins in this way.
O Lord, thou art my God. I will exalt thee. I will praise
thy name. For thou hast done wonderful
things. Thy councils of old are faithfulness
and truth. For thou hast made of a city
an heap, of a defed city, a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no
city. It shall never be built. Therefore
shall the strong people glorify thee. The city of the terrible
nation 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,
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. these five verses in many ways
act as an introduction to the chapter they begin in verse 1
with praise 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 Isaiah praises his God because
he sees the glory of God in times past and sees through them the
promise of what God will do what he will do in the mount for his
people thou hast made of a city an heap of a defense city a ruin
a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built
goes on to speak God's judgment all that man has built up shall
be brought down. All that man has built up in
his rejection of Almighty God, in his turning his back on his
Maker, in his seeking to bring up his own praise and his own
glory, all that man builds up shall be brought down low. that
has made of a city an heap, a defence city a ruin, a palace of strangers
to be no city, it shall never be built. Isaiah sees the great
power of God, His authority. and his ability with one brush
of his finger to bring all the pride, all the arrogance, all
the vaunted self-importance of man, all the works of man, all
the evil deeds of man to nothing. They can build, they can build
great things in their own name. great towers up into heaven like
the tower of Babel they can seek to get to the heights without
worshipping God they can seek to bring glory unto themselves
but God with one brush of His finger can bring all that they
build down to nothing He brought Babel to nothing He brought Jericho,
that great walled city to nothing Just at the sound of the trumpet,
by his gospel, he brings it to nothing. Have you built for yourself
a city? Have you built for yourself a
defence city? Have you built a palace of strangers? Do you entertain the riches and
the pleasures of this world? Do you seek after everything
and everyone but God? Have you built a city for yourself
to praise your name for which other people will bring you praise
and adoration? Oh, haven't you done well? How
many men there are throughout time and history who have built
for themselves empires? Whether they be empires of countries
or empires in commerce and business. They've built great names for
themselves, they've done great things, they've achieved great
things. In business, in entertainment,
in sport, in politics, whatever it might be. Oh, how they've
built their cities. And how they've been brought
to nothing. They live for a moment. They flower, they're praised
of men. There's a glory for a blink of
an eye and then they're gone. They're back to dust again. The
years fade away, their strength's taken away. And all that they
spent their lifetime building up has come to nothing. Without
God we are nothing. Without God all that you build
is nothing. You may build the greatest of
cities, you may achieve more than anyone, but it's nothing
and will come to nothing in the end if it's not done with God
in mind. If God hasn't brought it to pass,
if God hasn't built it, if it's not of God, it will come to nothing. You may say, well, I've been
building, not in the world, but I've been building in the church.
We've been building in our church. We've been promoting our church.
We've been adding to its numbers. We've been seeking to praise
God and worship. Our church is flourishing. Our
church is building. If God isn't in it, even your
church, your religion, your religious works will come to nothing. More than anything, this building
of cities refers to such works. All that man builds in religion
shall be as though it's never been built. It shall be brought
to nothing. It shall be made a heap. Oh,
he seeks to get to heaven by his own means and his own ways. He won't come unto Christ. He won't bow down and say he's
nothing. But he must have some part. He must share some glory. He must have some praise. He
must be able to say, we've done this in the church. We've done
this. Lord, Lord, I've done this in
thy name. I've done that in thy name. And
the Lord will say unto them, on that day, depart from me ye
workers of iniquity. You say it's religious. You say
it's Christianity. You take the name of Jesus. But
it's all in your own strength and your own works and ultimately
it's for your glory. You want to be able to say that
you were saved because you did this and you did that and you
were better than this man and you were wiser than that person
and you studied more. You made the right decision.
You served when others didn't. So you've built yourself a city.
But God will bring it to a ruin. He will make of your city a heap. He will make of your defend city
a ruin. He will make your palace to be
no city. It shall never be built. All
that man does in religion, which is not of God, which is of his
own strength, his own doing, his own will, shall be brought
down. The flesh and its works shall
be brought to nothing. And Isaiah prophesies of this
at this time. Years before the coming of Christ. Years before our day and generation. Thousands of years ago, He has
this message throughout all time to all men. You may build, but
if you build without God, if it's not God who does the building,
it's nothing. The works of the flesh will not
save you. Your decision will not save you.
Because all of that's to bring glory unto yourself. I chose
Jesus. I accepted Jesus. I followed
Him. I kept the law from the days
of my youth. I went this way. I went that
way. We went about evangelising. We preached. We put leaflets
through the doors. We built up our church. All for
man's glory. And yet all shall be as though
it was never built. You'll never come to the mountain. You'll never see the blessing
of God if there's anything in your hand. If you come up that
mountain saying, I've done this, I made this decision, I will
do this, you'll never take a step up it. You'll be as those that
came onto Mount Sinai and touched the mount and were struck down
dead. You cannot come with your sinful, wicked, prideful works
and think that you can make a step up to glory. God will not save
man if man seeks to take the glory. if man seeks to come unto
God his way. If man won't recognise what he
is before God. Because the great fallacy of
this in religion is that these people that think that they can
bring anything before God, even just their decision, don't realise
what they are. They don't realise the blackness
of their own sin. They don't realise the depravity
within. That they're utterly corrupt.
that even their choosing and accepting of Jesus is selfish
for their own glory and pride. They don't come before God saying,
I'm nothing, I'm dead, I'm weak. They don't come to that point
where they feel that God won't save them, he couldn't save them,
they're too wretched. How could God ever give them
time? And yet all for whom Christ suffered,
all for whom Christ came, all whom Christ saves are those who
are brought to know that they are wretched. Those who are brought
to know that they've got nothing. Those who are brought to know
that they can't pay a penny. Those who are brought to know
that they are dead before God, that they deserve His wrath and
His anger. Those who have no city. Those
who have no place to dwell in. Those who feel like they are
vagabonds in the earth. Wretched, lost, under the wrath
of God. And then there comes a time when
God comes unto them with a messenger in his gospel and says unto them,
fear not. Come this way. Come up. Come up hither. If there was
a seat to sit on, they'd have taken the lowest seat. But in
the Gospel, God calls them up to the highest seat. He calls
them up to the best seat on the table, on his banqueting table. He says, in this mountain, I
shall make for you a feast of fat things. But those who are
strong, those who are proud, those who built cities, Stay
in the valleys and there comes a day when their cities, their
works, their will, their way is brought to nothing. Where
are you? Are you at the foot of the mount,
wretched with nothing, listening for the voice of Jesus Christ?
Or are you in your city, your defence city, your strong city,
where you set up defences all around so that you can't hear
the gospel. So that the gospel won't touch
you, it won't trouble you, it won't convict you, it won't expose
you for the sinner you are. You've built up your defences,
you've built up your excuses, you've built up your justifications
for the life you are living. and the religion that you seek
to be saved by. Oh, you're going the right way,
are you? Oh, you've reasoned it all out.
Oh, you've studied it and you're certain that this is the way.
This is the way you'll be saved. This is the gospel you have.
This is the right Jesus to follow. Oh, you're so sure, are you?
You've built up your city. You've built up your defences.
You've welcomed strangers into your city. Be sure that one day,
the day won't come when your city is no more. Therefore shall
the strong people glorify thee. The city of the terrible nation
shall fear thee. Because there will come a day
when these will see the glory of God and he'll see everything
that they've done brought to nothing and even they will bow
down at the name of Jesus. At the name of Jesus. Every knee
shall bow. 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. Here's the blessing
of the gospel. God destroys the pride of man. He brings the cities to nothing.
He brings the flesh to nothing. But look what he does. When he
sends such judgment upon the wicked, he blesses the poor. the weak, those who are needy
in distress. He's a refuge to them. When the
storm comes, when the heat comes, when judgment comes against the
sin of man, there's a refuge for those who know they need
to run, those who look for salvation, those who know they're nothing.
Christ is their refuge. At the very same time that God's
judgment comes down upon the wicked, there are those who find
God and Christ to be their refuge. Have you fled to Him? In the
mount. 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 one shall be
brought low. And at the same time, that God
brings these people low. He's a refuge for the poor and
the needy. The same judgment which is brought
down upon the wicked proves to be the same judgment which is
salvation to the people of God. In this mountain Shall the Lord
of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast
of wines and the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines
and the lees well refined. God sends his blessing in this
mountain, in Zion. He sends a blessing. And verse seven, also in this
mountain, He says, 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. In this mountain. In this mountain
he will both bring blessing, a feast of fat figs, and he will
destroy the covering cast over all people. There is both blessing
in this mountain and there is judgment in this mountain. And
when we reach verse 10, we shall see that there's rest in this
mountain. He will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering cast over all people and the veil
that is spread over all nations. Here we see the cross. Here we
see the judgment at the cross of man's sin and the covering
which is cast over all people. That blindness that man's sin
has brought upon them that they cannot see. They cannot comprehend,
there's a veil that's spread over all the nations, that they
cannot see things for what they are, even if they've had some
religion. The Jews of old were led to a
mountain, Mount Sinai. God met with them on the mountain
and he showed unto them on that mountain what they must be like
if they are to escape His judgment how righteous they must be He
gave them a law, He gave them commandments and said thou shalt
worship God like this thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart this is
how you must live every single moment of every single day and
the people in their pride said they'll do this and they didn't
for none can and you in your pride might say well I'll live
like that but you can't for none can and that very law given unto
man at the mount that very law given to the Jews of old proved
to be a covering above their eyes, a veil They thought that
they could achieve unto it, they thought they could climb the
mountain to glory by keeping the law that Moses brought down
from that mount. When the reality was is that
that law condemned them. God sent them that law upon that
mount to show them the judgment of God against their sin. To
show them their sin. To show them the consequence
of their sin. To show them what wrath and fury
will come down from the mount, from on high, from heaven above
the mount down onto them because of their breaking of that law.
He didn't send that law as a means by which they might climb the
mount, but as a means by which they will be shown that they
can't take one foot up that mount. They can't take one step to climb
up higher. If they tried to take that law
and tried to climb up under God, they'd be condemned the moment
they started. And indeed, the Israelites camped
under the mountain, fell into sin before ever the law was given. fell into sin whilst Moses was
out of sight. They found themselves worshipping
an idol, worshipping a calf made of gold. How they turned from
Almighty God when their mediator was above them in the mount,
meeting with God on their behalf. and how we as sinners in this
world likewise when Christ was in this world mediating upon
the mount at Zion on sinners behalf how they sinned in the
valley beneath. and no matter what we may know
of the Gospel and it's been sounded throughout this world from the
coming of Christ and before the coming of Christ it's been preached
all around us the message of the Gospel is all around us it's
there to be heard and all the time here we are in the valley
beneath worshipping our idols turning from God far away then
how can you possibly religious man think that you are going
to take one step up that mountain unto God you'd only think it
because there's a veil across your heart because your eyes
are blinded Because you foolishly take what God sent down by Moses
as some sort of prescription of how you should live that you
can possibly live by. And you think that if you just
live rightly, if you don't murder, if you don't steal, if you don't
commit adultery, if you go to church every Sunday, if you worship
God, if you're nice to your neighbour, somehow God's going to be pleased.
Somehow that's enough. When God told the Israelites
that, they showed them they couldn't do any of it. And if you heard,
you'd realize you haven't done any of it. You're condemned by
it. The fires of God's wrath are
down upon you. But you don't see, because you're
blind. And there's a veil and a covering
over your eyes. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians
3, And not as Moses which put a veil over his face, that the
children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of
that which is abolished, but their minds were blinded. For until this day remaineth
the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament.
Which veil is done away in Christ? But even unto this day when Moses
is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it
shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the
Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
is liberty. Is the veil upon your heart?
In Christ it's done away. In Christ it's done away. Because
when Christ came upon Zion's mount and suffered, bearing the
sins of his people, bearing their transgressions of the law, he
took that law, he took that sin and he took it all away. He destroyed
in the mountain the face of the covering cast over all people,
and the veil that is spread over all nations. He took their sin,
He took the sins of His people from across all nations, from
throughout all nations, and He took all their sins away, and
He took the law that condemned them, the law that deceived,
that by that law they were blinded. thinking they could keep it when
actually they were sinning all the time. Even their attempts
to keep it were sin. He took the law and took it away
that they might be delivered. Oh, what a blessing. What a blessing. 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. O how at the cross Christ swallowed up death! Oh, how He
conquered over every foe, how He took sin and the consequence
of sin, death, and as it was, swallowed it up. He took the
cup of God's wrath and He drank it to the dregs. He took death
and He drank it. He swallowed it up in His victory. All God's wrath and judgment
against all the sins of all His people. Yours included if he
died in your place, O believer. All the sins of all his people
he drunk and he swallowed up. Death in victory, that the day
should come when you and I, believer, when we are risen out of the
graves on that last day of time, when we come to stand before
Him, that we should finally, in Christ, in person, in our
bodies, stood around His throne, have the tears wiped away from
our faces. It happened at the cross. It
will meet its fulfilment on that great resurrection day. of which
Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 15 when he quotes this verse.
He swallowed up death in victory. What a place this mountain is!
Both a place of blessing and a place of judgment. Place of blessing and a place
of judgment. 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. He came. He came into this world. Christ came, the Son of God. He came unto this valley below. that he should be led up onto
a mount, onto Mount Zion, and lead his people up there. That
people who'd waited, that people who'd waited, like Simeon and
Anna of old, that people who'd long waited, waiting, looking
for redemption in Jerusalem, looking for redemption, looking
for the coming Messiah, they'd waited, they'd waited for him.
And he came, as he promised. and led them to the mountain
and took their sins and drank the cup of wrath for those he
loved. Have you waited for salvation? Are you waiting for salvation? Are you waiting that God should
take your sins and make it known unto you that he's taken them?
Make it known unto you that he's delivered you? Are you waiting
to hear his voice saying unto you all is forgiven? I've taken
away your sins, I've blotted them out. Are you waiting? Well there are those who waited
unto whom he came and they beheld him. They beheld that babe. They beheld that child brought
into the temple. They beheld that man. They beheld
the one crucified. They beheld the Lamb of God which
taketh away the sin of the world. They beheld him. And they saw
him upon the mount, upon which God judged and destroyed the
face of the covering cast over all the people. No longer did
they just wait. No longer did they sit in darkness. No longer did they hope for the
coming of the light. But the covering, the veil, was
taken away. And they saw, they saw the light,
they saw the Son of God, they saw his salvation, they saw it
in the mountain. 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. What a mountain! In this mountain shall the hand
of the Lord rest. His mighty hand rests here. He came. Christ came to this
mountain. He came to bless his people.
He came to suffer the judgment and wrath of God. But in this
mountain also, having suffered, having borne the sins of his
people, Having drunk the cup of God's wrath to the dregs.
Having wrought salvation. having endured those three hours
in the darkness and three hours in light, having endured eternity
contracted to a span, having waded through the river, having
waded through the valley, having endured the burning wrath of
God. Hour after hour after hour in
this mountain finally, Christ cried out at the end, it is finished. It is finished. The darkness having passed. The loneliness and separation
having gone. The being forsaken of all having
passed. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? The darkness having gone. Sin
having been judged. Death having been swallowed up.
Righteousness of God having been brought in through the faith
of Jesus Christ. Christ having done all that was
necessary to deliver his people and save every one of them from
every one of their sins. Cried out, it is finished. His mighty hand rested. He rested. It was over. It was done. It was complete. No more to be done. Nothing to
be added. No more for him to do. No more
for him to add. Nothing to be done by man. Nothing
for man to add. Nothing that we should add to
it. But to see. To behold him in the mountain. To behold the blessing. The judgement. and the rest of God in the mountain. For Moab had been trodden down. Astroris trodden down for the
dunghill. He conquered. He trodden down
his enemies. He destroyed his foes. All was
done. He blesses, he judges and he
rests all in this mountain. All in this mountain. And he
shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim, and he shall bring
down their pride together with the spoil of their hands. He
shall spread forth his hands. O sinner, will you be blessed? Do you look for blessing? Do
you hope that when you die you might go into glory? That you
might be spared judgement? Do you hope for the blessing
of God? Do you hope for His salvation? Do you hope for forgiveness?
Do you hope for peace with God? Do you hope for blessing? Well
if you do that, blessing must come from this place, the mountain. And it cannot come from the mountain
except there is first judgment upon that mountain. The blessing
is the consequence of the judgment. The blessing is the consequence
of the fact that God in that mountain destroyed the face of
the covering cast over all people. If you're to be blessed you must
own that you were once blind. That your eyes were covered.
Covered by your religion. Covered by your foolishness in
religion. Covered by your false notions. Your false ideas of God. Your false ideas of Jesus Christ. Your false ideas of the law.
Your false ideas of the gospel. Your eyes were covered. What
stopped you seeing Christ as he is? What stopped you being
blessed was your false religion. Do you see that? Do you own that? Do you recognise that? The child
of God does. He comes to a point of giving
up on all his works, all his ways, all his will. He says it's
all filthy rags. All that I once trusted in. All
that I once worked at. All that I once gloried in. Like
Saul, like Paul, who was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. Born in the
tribe of Benjamin. did all that he could do, zealous
for the law, blameless in the law, all of it he counted as
dung, as filthy rags. Well if you're to know God's
salvation, you'll come to that point of knowing that it was
all nothing. It was all a blindness, a covering,
a veil that had to be taken away. Has God taken it away? Has he
brought you to nothing? has he shown you that through
the wrath and the judgment that he poured down upon his own son
because of your wicked deeds your wicked deeds in religion
because of your blindness has he shown you that because of
the judgment he poured on him that is because of that that
he can deliver sinners such as you because of that that he can
bless because of that that he can spread forth a feast of fat
things before his people And only because of that, only when
they've come to that point will they know rest. Will they enter
in? Will they enter in through the
side of Christ, the blood of Christ, into glory, out of time,
into eternity? Only then will they transcend
that mount. Only then will they stand on
top of it with Him. Only then will they, as with
the disciples, see Christ transfigured before them. and hear the voice
of God above saying this is my son hear ye him only then will
they stand upon that mount as it were with the disciples with
Moses with Elijah and see Christ in his glory as their savior
Only then will they see him spreading forth his hands in the midst
of them as he that spreadeth forth his hands to swim. Only
then will they see him when he brings their pride down together
with the spoil of their hands. Only when your pride's enough
has been brought down and the spoil of your hands the works
of your hands all that you've done has been brought to nothing
like that city brought to a heap only when you're brought down
will you then see as long as you cling on to it as long as
there's some pride in your religion there as long as you've got something
in your hand you'll never see him and you'll never come up
to this mount But there he is in the mount and he spreads his
hands and he sends forth his gospel. He brings down the spoil
of their hands by spreading forth his hands. He brings down their
pride by delivering his gospel, by preaching his gospel. It's
the power of God under salvation. It brings man to nothing but
saves all for whom Christ died. Has he spread forth his hands
in the gospel to you? Have you seen his hands spread
forth? Have you seen those wounded hands? Have you seen Christ spread
forth his hands in his gospel, and like Thomas who doubted,
beheld the wounds in his hands, and the wounds in his feet, and
the wound in his side, and seen that it's real? It's not just
words. It's not just words of a prophecy. It's not just Isaiah's words.
But there's the man that was crucified upon this mount and
he's a real man with real wounds in his hands and his feet and
his side. Has he spread them forth before
you? Have you seen by faith those
hands that suffered for your sins? Did he suffer for your
sins? Did he suffer for you? Has he
spread forth his hands and shown you? Has he come unto you in
his gospel and said unto you like unto Thomas, look at my
hands. Look at what I've done in the
mount for you. And the fortress of the high
fort of thy walls shall he bring down. Lay low and bring to the
ground even to the dust. The day that you, O sinner, see
Christ with His hands spread, the fortress of the high fort
of thy walls, your city, He will bring down, lay low, and bring
to the ground, even to the dust. From dust we came, to dust we
must go, but in Christ If he does this, if he spreads forth
his hands before you, if he leads you into his mountain, you will
find in that mountain that there's not just judgment, but through
the judgment there's blessing, there's a feast in place, and
there's rest. As he leads you forth out of
this world, through the blood of Christ, into eternity, to
a place where he will wipe away every tear, where there's no
more sorrow, no more sin, no more suffering, no more death,
but everlasting life forevermore in Christ. Have you seen his
hands in the mountain? Amen.