Isaiah 25

Response. Argument 1. By Scripture (John 6:44): I will raise him up at the last day. Isaiah 25:8. He will swallow up death in victory. That is, by delivering our bodies from the captivity of the grave, wherein death for a time had power over them (1 Thessalonians 4:14).

He neither slumbers nor sleeps. 7. He thinks nothing too good to part with to his children: He gives them the kidneys of the wheat, and honey out of the rock, and wine on the lees well refined (Isaiah 25:6). He gives them three jewels more worth than heaven, the blood of his Son…

How could we taste this honey of joy, if we were not sometimes in affliction? Again, God has promised to wipe away tears from our eyes (Isaiah 25:8). How could God wipe away our tears in Heaven, if we never shed any?

Christ therefore, that he might be a complete Savior, and able to save to the uttermost, had all his offices put upon him; and all such as hope to be found saved by him, must accept of him in them all. And hence it follows, that whoever he be that truly believes in him for pardo…

Indeed many of the saints of the Old Testament did greatly rejoice in the Lord, and had the joy of his salvation abiding with them. See (Psalm 51:12; Isaiah 25:9; Habakkuk 3:17, 18). But they had it not by virtue of the Levitical Priesthood.

And this darkness had two parts; first, that which was external with respect to the will of God concerning sinners and their acceptance with him; secondly, on the minds of men in their incapacity to receive such divine revelations to that end as were or should be made. This was…

Wise men may guess when they see probabilities, and foretell that which depends on natural causes; the Devil can many times shrewdly interpret the predictions of the word, but a certain prescience of what is future, and merely in itself contingent, is the prerogative of God (Isa…

As the dung of the earth. Seventhly, they are as straw that is troden for dung, in Isaiah 25:10. As straw troden for the dunghill.

A time, wherein both God will be greatly glorified, and his saints made unspeakably happy in the view of his glory; a time, wherein God's people should not only once see the light of God's glory, as Moses, or see it once a year with the High Priest, but should dwell and walk con…

(Micah 7:7) I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation: My God will hear me. (Isaiah 25:8-9) 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 has spoken it. And it shall be sai…

All the Song reports great things of the kingdom of grace. Ask of Isaiah, What saw you there, he answers, (Isaiah 25:6) It is a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow. And Ezekiel says, That there shall be a brave summer in that land.

Some feed ordinarily on the fat and marrow of the Lord's house (Psalm 63:5). And there is 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 (Isaiah 25:6). And has not the King a banqueting house, a wine cellar (S…

For sometimes God gives not only a comfortable but a glorious issue. There is nothing lost by waiting on providence, though we abide the blows of Satan for a while, yet abide them; God is — it may be — preparing the greater mercy for you (Isaiah 25:9): "And it shall be said in t…

(2.) Afflictive Providences have not accomplished that design upon our hearts they were sent for, when we are so earnest and impatient for a change of them; and till then the rod must not be taken off, Isaiah 10:12 (3.) The more prayers and searchings of heart come between our w…

Christ called her to eat and drink abundantly, to be filled with his love. See the like Isaiah 25:6. So Job's children were eating and drinking wine, that is, they were at a plentiful and solemn feast that day.

First, the King here spoken of is Christ, as was cleared (verse 4). His Table or feasting-house is the Gospel (Proverbs 9:1, etc.), where the feast of fat things is prepared (Isaiah 25:6). His sitting at his Table, or her sitting with him at it, imports familiar fellowship with…

He is their dwelling place (Psalm 90), then when in this world they had none; their refuge in the time of trouble. So (Isaiah 25:4; 26:1; 31:4) promises, and instances to make this good abound; they are known to all: the time would fail me to insist upon them. I might go over al…

"Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." There is a kind of a veil now cast over the greater part of the world, which keeps them in darkness: but then this ve…

When God had once written Loammi upon Israel, the next news is this, I will recover my wool and my flax (Hosea 2:9). (5) And lastly, to come up to the very case in hand, they lose with it their spiritual food and soul-subsistence; for the Gospel is their feast of fat things (Isa…

And when did the Ephesians and other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart? And if Christ shall destroy in this mountain…

And the continuance of this vail on the revelation of the glory of Christ, while a vail of ignorance and blindness was upon their hearts and minds, proved the ruin of that Church in its apostacy, as the Apostle declares (2 Corinthians 3:7, 13, 14). This double vail (the covering…

First, the choice mercies of God are communicated to his people: If you would have any share in Gods choice mercies, his peculiar mercies, come amongst Gods people, join with them: as that place is observable in Psalm 134:3 The Lord that made Heaven and earth, bless you out of S…

None eat of this banquet but such as wait at the table. Isaiah 25:6, 9: In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines well refined; and it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him; we will be gla…

1. Because when Christ says (John 5:4), "The believer has passed from death" — as it is a curse — "and shall never come to judgment and condemnation," he cannot mean that they have half passed from the curse, and half not. 2. Believers are delivered, in Christ, from the victory,…

No doubt, Christ God-Man is in Covenant with God, being a person designed from eternity, with his own consent, and in time yielding to that, and yet he stands not in that covenant-relation that we stand in: as we shall hear. Argument 1. What argument does prove that there is a p…

And the continuation of this veil on the revelation of the glory of Christ, while a veil of ignorance and blindness was upon their hearts and minds, proved the ruin of that church in its apostasy, as the apostle declares (2 Corinthians 3:7–14). This double veil God promised to r…

5 It is comfort in case of the Saints' sufferings; The Church of God is exposed in this life to many injuries, but she has an Husband in heaven, that is mindful of her, and will turn her waters into wine; now it is a time of mourning with the Spouse, because the Bridegroom is ab…

Now how could this equality have stood together, unless he had been the same God whose name is Jah and Jehovah: that rides upon the Cherubim, that is king of all the earth and Lord of the worlds? Now however they babble against it, it cannot be taken from Christ which Isaiah say…

Pliable: This is very pleasant; and what else? Christian: There shall be no more crying, nor sorrow; for he that is owner of the place will wipe all tears from our eyes (Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 7:16, 17; 21:4). Pliable: And what company shall we have there?

Who are these that fly as Doves to the windows? The gracious soul flies as a Dove to an Ordinance, upon the wings of delight; The Sacrament is his delight: On this day the Lord makes a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the Lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on t…

Christ rides into the Believer's heart in these chariots. Ordinances are convivium pinguium, the feast of fat things, Isaiah 25.6. The soul feasts with Christ here, Canticles 2.4.

When a man daily seeks the face of God for pardon of sin and peace of conscience, the heart of such an one shall daily rejoice. Secondly, daily to remember the Lord, is to wait upon him, and that brings continual rejoicing (Isaiah 25:9). In that day it shall be said, Lo, this is…

The great danger of not appearing openly to acknowledge, rejoice in, and promote that great work of God, in bringing in that glorious harvest, is represented in (Zechariah 14:16-19): "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left, of all the nations, which come against…