Over in 1 Corinthians chapter
15, I want to begin here in verse 12, and I want to just go right
through this book with you, right through this chapter with you,
if you'd like to do that with me. I don't want to get so much
bogged down on just a few verses, but I want to look at what the
Apostle Paul teaches us concerning the resurrection of the body,
the resurrection of our physical bodies. I think sometimes when
you and I think of the resurrection, we think, well, when I get old
and maybe diseased and weak and bad, then it'll be precious to
me to think of that. But you know, a young believer
who is young in age should understand the resurrection of the body
and believe it and live in the hope of it. The Lord Jesus Christ
came to save us and make us happy. And we cannot be happy if we
do not believe that everything ends in this life. The Lord Jesus
is the Savior of the whole man. He don't save just our souls,
He saves our body. He saves our souls now, but He's
purchased the body as well as the soul. And He'll have this
body with Him for all eternity. A whole man, a whole woman. And that's what I want us to
look at this evening. I want us to begin here in verse
12 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15. The resurrection of the body. And here's the way the Apostle
Paul begins this. Now if Christ be preached, that
He rose from the dead, and He was. Christ was preached. Paul tells us in the beginning
of this chapter, he said, I preached unto you the gospel. And he said,
the gospel is this, how that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures, that he was buried and he raised again the
third day according to the scriptures. Paul said, I preached the resurrection
to you. And then of course, if you look
back up there in verse In verse 5, he talks about Peter, Cephas. He was seen of Cephas. And in
the first few chapters of the book of Acts, every time the
apostle Peter got a chance to preach, he preached the resurrection
of Christ in him. Almost had a one note on his
instrument that he, you've taken by wicked hands and you've crucified
and slain him, but God raised him from the dead. You crucified
the Lord of Glory, the Prince of Life. Paul said, I'm leaving
you and you'll never see my face again. That's what he told the
church at Ephesus. But he said, as soon as I leave, there's going
to be men, even among you, that's going to rise up speaking things
that you ought not. Perverse things to draw away
disciples after yourself. Always have to be watching, don't
we? We've got to watch to make sure I'm not that fellow. I don't
want to be that fellow. And as soon as the pastor is
gone sometimes, that's when those fellows show their faces. Towers
among the wheat, goats among the sheep. In verse 13, but he
said, if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen. Now what these people were denying
seemingly as we read these verses, that They weren't so much denying
the resurrection of Christ, but they were denying the resurrection
of the believers. Yes, they said, we believe that
Christ raised from the dead, you preach that to us, we believe
that. But what they were denying was the resurrection of the believer,
his body. So he said this. And if Christ
be not risen, now notice he gives us several negative things. I know you and I don't like to
dwell too much on negative things, but we can learn by negative
things. And if the Lord Jesus Christ has not raised from the
dead, then look here at these negative things. Number one,
then is our preaching vain. It's empty. You folks will probably have
a funeral in a few days, and your pastor will probably get
up and he'll say something like this, and he'll quote some of
these verses. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death
of his saints. Blessed are they who die in the
Lord that they may rest from their labors. To live is Christ
and to die is gain. But you know something? That
don't mean a thing. If the Lord Jesus Christ is still
in the grave, you might as well stay home and not listen to Him. When He comes here and preaches
through Christ the forgiveness of sins, redemption through His
blood, that don't mean anything if Christ be not risen. Our preaching
is useless. We're beating the air. It doesn't
mean anything. And look at this. And if our
preaching is vain and you believe it, your faith is vain. It's just like the faith of devils. It won't profit you. It doesn't
matter if you endear to the end in the faith. It's vain anyway,
if Christ be not raised from the dead. And then he goes on
in verse 15 and says this, Yea, and we are found false witnesses
of God. How so? Well, because we've testified
of God. that He raised up Christ, whom
He raised not up, if so be that the dead raise not up. Let's quit calling the Jehovah
Witness out and confronting them and telling what great cult is
among us with the Mormons and all of these people. We're no
better than they are. We're worse probably. We made
a liar out of God because we confessed that He's done something
that He hasn't done, if so be that Christ is not raised from
the dead. For if the dead raise not, then is not Christ raised."
See what Paul seems to be saying here? It seems that they're not
denying the resurrection of Christ. But he says if you deny the resurrection
of Christ, if you do not deny the resurrection of Christ, but
if you deny the resurrection of the believer, you might as
well deny the resurrection of Christ. And he'll get to why
he says that in just a minute. But he puts these three things
together. Look in verse 17. These three
things, they often go together. And if Christ be not raised,
your faith is vain, and you are yet in your sins. Three things
that go together. And you see it sometimes in the
Scripture. Well, turn over here and let me read it to you. Look
in Acts chapter 10. Acts chapter 10. Three things
that often go together in the Scriptures. And that's the resurrection
of Christ, faith in Him, and forgiveness of sins. You see
these three things often. Christ was delivered for our
transgression, raised again for our justification. And by faith
we have peace with Him, with God through Him. Now look here
how Peter says this. He's preaching. He's preaching
here. And notice what he says in verse 40. Acts chapter 10. And notice verse 40. These three
things go together. Him, the Lord Jesus, hath God
raised up the third day and showed Him openly, not to all the people,
but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us who did eat
and drink with Him after He rose from the dead. And He commanded
us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is He
which was ordained of God to be the judge of the quick and
the dead. To Him gave all the prophets witness that through
His name Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission
of sins." Freedom from sins. But our faith isn't who? A dead
Christ? A risen Christ. God raised Him
from the dead and believing in Him, Peter said, you have your
sins remitted. Freedom from your sins. Those
three things go together. Look back over in our text again.
Look back over in the 15th chapter. Look in verse 18. Here's the
last negative thing the Apostle Paul says. It's this. Then they also which are fallen
asleep in Christ are perished. Ain't that sad? Ain't that fearful?
Dear Hannah, The sweet psalmist of Israel,
where is he? He's perished. Abraham, holy
Daniel, Lydia, the Philippian jailer, the thief on the cross,
where are they? They're perished. Why? Because Christ did not raise
from the dead. And you and I, we look in just
a few days from now at our own death. We look out into eternity
and what do we see? A dark eternity. We're without
any hope. And what is it to be without
hope? Our hearts would break. If Christ be not raised from
the dead, we are of all men most miserable. If Christ came into
this world just to give us hope that pertains to this life, I
tell you, we're miserable people. Because here we have this struggle
within us and without us, groaning within ourselves, endearing temptations,
endearing hardness, family trials, trials on our jobs. A man that's
born of a woman is a few days and full of trouble. And if in
this life only we have hope in Christ, we're miserable people,
aren't we? Brother Donnie Bell said one time, explaining the
difference between faith and hope, And I like the way he explained
this. He said, faith reaches out and
takes a hold of everything right now. Faith believes it all right
now. Right now, I'm seated with God
in Christ. Right now, I have eternal life.
Right now, I'm perfected, accepted in the beloved. All these things
are mine right now. But hope is altogether different.
Hope looks a way out over the horizon. Hope looks a way out
yonder in the future. And hope says it's going to be
this way. It's going to be that way. Hope doesn't pertain to
this world. We're saved by hope, but hope
that's seen is not hope. But if we hope for that we see
not, then do we with patience wait for it. We have a hope,
but it has nothing to do with this life, the world to come. Now look what he says in verse
20. But now, but now, now Paul changes. He's been dealing with all these
negative things. If Christ be not raised from
the dead, but now he says, but now is Christ risen from the
dead. And all these fellows read this
and said, Paul, we told you, we agree with you. We believe
you when you preach that Christ raised from the dead, we believe
it. Well, he said, you got to believe this too. If you believe
Christ raised from the dead, you're going to have to believe
this too. He has become the first fruits of them that slept. What Paul begins to do here in
verse 20, he begins to develop what he already hinted at that
he said back there in verse 13. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
a private person. He's a public person. And by
that I mean he came as a representative. He didn't come to do anything
for himself. He took our humanity to please
God, to fulfill the law, and to suffer its penalty, not for
himself, but for us. He bore our sins. He suffered
for us. He died for us. And He arose
and He ascended there as a forerunner into that veil, the holy place,
for us. He's now in the presence of God
for us. Jesus Christ never did anything
for Himself. Never did anything. I challenge
you, dear brothers and sisters, to find where He ever had to
do anything for Himself. He was a public person. And that's
what the Apostle Paul is going to tell us now. Look in verse
21. For since by man, by Adam, the first Adam, the first man,
came death. And he's speaking here of physical.
By man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. See that? Paul said you're denying the
resurrection of the body. Then you might as well deny the
resurrection of Christ. Because he raised not for himself.
And when he raised, he's only the first fruits. And you know
what that means, don't you? When the garden begins to come
in in the summertime, I always watch my tomatoes. Because there's
always one ripening before the others. And I keep my eye on
it. Every day I'll go check it. And when it's good and ripe,
I'll pick it off. But you know, that's just the first one. There's
going to be a bunch more after that. And that's what Paul said
Jesus Christ is. He's only the first that raised
from the dead. All of those people that the
Lord raised while He was here upon this earth, Lazarus, Jairus'
daughter, they died again. They died again. The Lord is
the first one who raised from the dead never to die again. I am He that liveth and I was
dead and now I'm alive forevermore. You say, Bruce, didn't those
people come out of the graves when the Lord was crucified?
Only after He raised from the dead. He was the first fruit
of the resurrection. And that's what the Apostle Paul
is teaching us here, that we're saved by a representative. You know, you don't have to do
anything to die physically. The mere fact that you're in
Adam, you'll die. You take care of yourself, you
eat well, you exercise well, we should. But there's nothing
you can do that will stop you from dying. You die by virtue
of your union with Adam. But when you've died, and when
I've died, and the skin worms begin to devour this body, and
it begins to decay, and nothing's left of it but a little bit of
powder after a while, you shall live. Not because of anything
you do or can do, but you shall live simply because of your union
with the Lord Jesus Christ. We were lost in a representative
spiritually, and our bodies died because we were in that man.
But now, we live spiritually in Christ, and we'll lay these
old bodies down knowing that they're going to raise because
of our union with Him who is already alive. His resurrection
assures the resurrection of all of those who are united to Him
by living faith. And he goes on in verse 23. Look
at this. But he says this. God has an
order. God has a purpose. And He'll follow that order.
Every man in his own order. He's the firstfruits. He has
the preeminence. Afterward, they that are Christ's
at His coming. They that are Christ's. They
that are Christ's. They belong to Christ. He's coming. And one of the reasons He's coming,
because He has some people. They're in the ground. They're
His. The Father gave them to Him.
They're precious in His sight. their gift of His Father to Him.
He values them. He gave His life for them. They're
His. They're His by election. They're
His by redemption. They're His by regeneration.
We're His by faith. And I tell you, I'm His willingly.
We're His. And He's coming for His own,
for His. At His coming, when He shall
descend from heaven with a shout. And look in verse 24. When this
has come to pass, When Christ is come and raised His from the
dead, then cometh the end. You know this thing's coming
to an end. It's not going on forever like it is now. It's
coming to an end. God has a purpose, and He's already
fixed the day when this life, as we know it, when God's purpose
shall be finished, that shall be the end. The end's coming.
Now that's comforting to you, dear child. You ain't going to
live forever like you're having to live now. It's fearful for
the ungodly because it's coming to an end. When? When's it coming to an
end? Not until this time. When he
shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when
he shall have put down all rule and all authority and all power. For he must reign till he hath
put all enemies under his feet, And the last enemy that shall
be destroyed is death. He shall have delivered up the
kingdom to God, whatever that kingdom includes, the church
for sure. God has turned everything over
to this mediator, his son. God has said in effect, son,
this is my purpose. You carry it out. You fulfill
it. And that's what the Lord Jesus
Christ is doing today. He's fulfilling the Father's
purpose. And He's going to put all things
down under His rule. You know everything ain't put
under Him right now. It ain't put down. It's under His feet,
but it ain't put down. There's a devil just running
to and fro through the earth as a roaring lion. But someday
He's going to put Him down. He's going to utterly crush Him.
There's the ungodly that's against Him. He's going to put Him down.
All His enemies He's already brought you at Him. You were
His enemy and He's brought you at His feet. He's put you down
under His feet. And you love to be there. You
love to be there. But He's going to put everybody
down in the end. And He must reign. He must reign. He must reign. You say, Bruce,
what's happening right now? Well, what's happening right
now? What is happening right now? Well, we're in a war. Terrorism is spreading, they
tell us. I read the other day where there's 25 million people
in Africa with AIDS. And now they're talking about
all these different infections that could just sweep the nations
and millions of people die. Our culture, as we know it in
our country, seems to be changing right before our eyes. There's
uncertainty on every hand. How is it? No, that's not what
I'm talking about. That's the way it is when you
look around us. But how is it when we look up? How is it when
we face things as it really is? He is reigning. The Lord Jesus Christ governs,
He rules, He overrules everything for His glory and the good of
His church. All nations, all individuals,
the hearts of the King, everything is in His hands. Every circumstance
you face in your life, all authority is given me in heaven and in
earth. And God the Father has put everything
under his feet. And right now, while you and
I sit here, Jesus of Nazareth is reigning in heaven and in
this earth. And I find that to be very comforting,
brothers and sisters. Very comforting. What's happening
right now? He's reigning. Jesus is reigning. And the last enemy that shall
be destroyed is death. That's fearful. That's fearful for the lost.
Poor things. I think the scripture would teach
us that there's coming a time when those
who are in the lake of fire will seek death and can't find it.
When their bodies and souls are joined back together and cast
into the lake of fire, they'll seek death and can't find it.
Why? It's been destroyed. Wouldn't that be awful? To live
in this body after its souls united and cast into the lake
of fire and your body can't die? It's impossible for it to die.
Christ had destroyed death. But oh, what a blessing for the
saints. He'll never die again. Death
can never touch Him. Why? There is no such thing.
The Son of God will destroy death. That's His last enemy. And He'll
utterly destroy it. It shall be no more. For He hath put all things under
His feet. God has. And when He saith that
all things are put under Him, it's accepted. It's evident.
It's manifest. that God has accepted, which
did put all things under his feet. And when all things shall
be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject
unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all
in all." And to me, what he's saying here in verse 27 and verse
28 is this, that God has put all things into the hands of
the mediator. And He's ruling and reigning
and fulfilling the purpose of God right now. But there's coming
a time when the Son of God as the mediator in that office as
a mediator, that office will not be needed anymore. The Lord
Jesus Christ will not need to be an advocate for us then. Won't
that be wonderful? Can you imagine that? Why? Oh,
you think of that and it scares us now, don't it? Oh, to make
a statement like we won't need a mediator then. Well, it scares
us now because, oh, we desperately need one now. But there's coming
a time when we're going to be so perfected and so sinless and
so like Him. We won't need someone between
us and God to plead and maintain our cause. Christ in His office
as a mediator. Oh, He'll still be there. the
Son of God, God Himself in our humanity, He'll be there. He'll
be the only God we'll ever see. But His office as a mediator
will have been completed. In verse 29, I'm not even going
to look at this verse because everybody knows what this means
anyway. So we want them to look at that. I just say this much
about it. What shall they do who are baptized for the dead
if the dead raise not at all? Why are you then baptized for
the dead? What is baptism? It's the death. It's a burial. But it's something else. It's
a resurrection. It's a resurrection. And Paul
said, I know you've been baptized. I know you've been baptized.
I baptized two or three of you. And he said, if you don't believe
in the resurrection, why don't you just take those fellows out
there that professes and put them down in under and hold them
there. Just let them suffocate. That's what they said they believed.
But when you come up out of the water, what are you professing?
A resurrection. A resurrection. And then he goes
down on down here. Look here in verse 35. And here I guess what it confounded
son. They were trying to reason this
out in their carnal heads in verse 35. But some man will say,
two questions, how are the dead raised? That same old spirit
of Sadduceeism. And the Lord Jesus told them
this. He said, you don't know the power of God. How are the
dead raised? He that raised up the Lord Jesus
will raise up us by his own power. the power of God. He did it.
They'll hear my voice, the master said. And when they hear it,
they'll come up out of the grave. The power of God. That's the
way we'll raise from the dead. And they ask this question, well,
what body will they have? With what body shall they come? And then Paul begins here in
verse 36 and he explains different types of bodies. And I want you
to notice this. He begins in verse 36 and he
starts with a seed, a little grain, corn or peas or tomatoes. Thou fool, that which thou sowest
is not quickened, not made alive, except it die. And that which
thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but
you just put a little old burr grain in the ground. It's all
dried up. One little kernel of corn, you
take it and you plant it down in the ground, whether it's wheat
or corn or whatever it is. But God gives it a body as it
has pleased Him and every seed His own body. You take a little
old dried up seed of corn, a kernel of corn, and you dig a little
hole and you put it there in the ground and you cover it back
up and it just dries up and dries up and dries up. And then what
happens? Put some water on it, sunlight,
and here comes this little sprout up. And it just grows and grows
and gets big and gets green. And after a while, you see this
little ear of corn and two ears of corn. And after a while, you
got two huge, big ears of corn just full of grain on it. Where
did that come from? God did that. He took this little
dead, dried up grain and He made a beautiful stalk out of it.
Changed it completely. Now He does something else. in
verse 39. But all flesh is not the same
flesh. There is one kind of flesh of
men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, another of
birds. There are also celestial bodies,
those heavenly bodies. There are the earthly bodies.
But the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial
is another. There is one glory of the sun
and another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars. One
star differs from another star in glory. And what's Paul saying?
Paul says, look around you. Just look around you at these
different bodies that you can see. Look at the little worms
crawling on the ground. He's got a body. Look at the
beast out in the field. They have bodies. Look at the
birds up in the air flying. They have bodies. And look at
the sun, how it comes up there in the east and rises and warms
and lights this earth. What a heavenly body that is.
Look how bright it is. Then look at the stars of the
night. All of them's different. They're different colors and
they have different brightness about them. All of these bodies.
And where did they come from? Why, God made them, He said.
God made them. And what's he proven to these
Corinthians is God is a creator. He's a mighty creator. He's made
all these bodies. That's what he does. That's what
he likes to do. And Paul said, are you doubting
that he can make you a new body? That's what he's in the business
of doing. And when you're raised from the dead, It would be no
problem to Him to make you a distinct individual body. Billions of stars, and all of
them differs. No, brothers and sisters, God
is a wise creator. He's a faithful creator, a powerful
creator. And He's been in the business
of creating greater things than you and I will ever know. And
He can raise us from the dead by His power and give us a body. a glorious body. Look what he
goes on to say. In verse 42, see how he says
this? So also is the resurrection from the dead. Look what he says
about it. It is sown in corruption, decay
and rot Goes back to the dust, but look at this. It is raised
altogether different. It's raised in incorruption,
not subject to decay. It is sown in dishonor, humiliation,
nakedness, lifeless, cold, but it's raised a glorious body,
a body full of glory. The Lord Jesus says they shall
shine as the sun. in the kingdom of their Father.
What a body! It is sown in dishonor. It is
raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, utter
weakness, helplessness, dead. But it's raised with the power
of an endless life. Raised in power. Verse 44, it's
sown a natural body, an animal body, that has to have breath
and food dependent upon oxygen and all these things, but it's
raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there's
a spiritual body. And so it is written, the first
man, Adam, was made a living soul. He had a body. He had a soul. God united them
together. But it's just a physical body.
animal body, they call it. But look at this, the last Adam
was made a life-giving spirit, quickening spirit. There's a
physical body that has its limitations, but there's a spiritual body
that has no limitations as far as we know. And that's the body
the Lord Jesus was raised in. This is a little bit difficult
to understand because you and I talk about physical and spiritual
and we divide them. But when he talked about the
physical body of Jesus Christ, he said it's a spiritual body.
We know the Lord Jesus looked at his disciples and said, if
you think I'm a spirit, handle me and see. You can put your
fingers in my glorified prince here. Thrust your hand into my
glorified side. I'm not a spirit. Ain't that
what he said? I'm flesh and bones. But Paul
said he's a spiritual body. He says that because he has no
limits to that body. His disciples were in the upper
room, had the doors locked, but he just walked right through
the wall. That's a spiritual body. He can't eat, but he's
in no way dependent upon it. He'll never get tired. He'll
never have to rest. And when he got ready to ascend
back into heaven, He was there. We can't get to the nearest star
in our lifetime. But Jesus Christ in our humanity
suddenly ascended back to heaven. What is that? That's a spiritual
body. A body that can be seen, can
disguise itself. But it's a body. But it's a spiritual
body. And look in verse 47. The first
man is of the earth, he's earthly. God made him of the dust of the
earth. But the second man, who is he? He's the Lord from heaven. He's the eternal Lord, the sovereign
Lord in our humanity. And as is the earthly, verse
48, such are they also that are earthy. But as is the heavenly,
such Are they also that are heavenly? And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, and boy we have, and right now we're groaning
over it, aren't we? And we're aging, and we're rankling, and we're
getting old and bowing down. Why? Because we're dying. Why? Because we're in Adam. We
bear his image, We can't help it. Nothing we can do about that.
It's inevitable. We bear His image. But, just as we've borne
His image, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Who is that? That's the Lord
from heaven. We'll bear His image. How in the world is this going
to happen? How in the world can this happen? I look at you this
evening, how in the world are you going to borrow the image?
How in the world are you going to have a spiritual body that can disguise
itself, that's not dependent upon the oxygen and the food
and the things of this world? You can go to heaven and come
back to earth or whatever. How in the world can such a thing
happen to us? Is it going to be an evolution? Is that the way the Lord's going
to do it? Is it going to be a process over a period of time? And suddenly
one day we're going to look around and say, well, I didn't notice
until now, but I'm glorified. How is it going to happen? Well,
Paul said, I'm going to show you a mystery. Look what he said
in verse 50. I say, brethren, flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption. Behold, I'm going to show you
a mystery. We're not all going to die. We're not all going to
sleep. but we shall be changed." Slowly, gradually, evolution? No. In a moment. In the twinkling
of an eye. I think it was Kodak Company
said something about that being eleven one hundredth of a second. That's what it takes to blink
your eye. That's fast. It's not going to be gradual.
When the Lord descends from heaven with a shout, the voice of the
archangel, there's going to be a change take place in the blinking
of an eye. And here's what's going to happen.
The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
and we shall be changed. That quick. For, look at this,
and I love the way he says this. He doesn't separate what we are
right now from what's going to take place with what we'll be
then. He said, Bruce, my body's going back to the ground. It's
going to become dust and some animals are going to eat it.
There's nothing left of it. But look here, this corruptible,
this corruptible, this body that dies and rots and decays, it's
gone. God knows where it is. This corruptible. must put on incorruption. And this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
I put on incorruption, and this mortal shall I put on immortality. See there what he's saying? I
don't understand that. But brothers and sisters, it's
going to be a body that we have here. And yet it's not going
to be that body. But it is going to be that body.
changed and glorified. Then shall be brought to pass
the same that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
The sting of death is sin. Where is sin? There is none. The strength of sin is the law,
but the curse of the law has been born. There is no sin. There is no curse. There is no
sin. You say, I feel sin in me. We're
talking about what God said, not what we feel. Would you rather
have what God said or what you feel? God says there's no sin. He sent his son into this world
and our humanity. And John the Baptist said, look
at him. Who is he? He's the Lamb of God. What's
he doing, John? He's taken away. He's taken away
the sin of the world, and it's gone. There is none. And there
is no curse of the law. There is none, brothers and sisters.
Jesus Christ is without sin, and He's not bound by the curse
of the law. Look at it. Look at it. He has no sin, and
He is not bound. There is no sin right now, and
there's no curse right now for every dear child of God. If we
could live in that freedom, oh, what freedom that would be. But
I guess we won't until finally we realize it in the resurrection.
And then we'll say, where's your sting at now, death? Where's
your curse at now, law? But thanks be unto God which
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Let me
read you one scripture, then I'll quit. Look over with me
at Isaiah chapter 25. In verse 8, Isaiah 25 in verse
8. Look in 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, A fat thanks full of marrow of wine
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. Won't that be wonderful? And
he will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord God will wipe away
all 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. 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, and we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. God bless you.