LIFE IS UNCERTAINTY: DEATH SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Life Is Uncertainty
a) Isaiah that are quoted in the New Testament leads us to think about the uncertainty of this life compared to the certainty of what lies beyond.
2. Death Swallowed Up In Victory
Isaiah 25:8
8 He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
a) But death is not the end of everything, rather it is more like the beginning. Paul goes on to teach about the "resurrection of the dead" and at the end of his marvelous lesson he quotes another passage from Isaiah, "He will swallow up death for ever" (Isaiah 28:5, 1 Corinthians 15:54).
b) This is a most beautiful statement. In full it reads, "He will swallow up the covering over all peoples, the veil stretched over all nations. He will swallow up death for ever. And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and he will remove the reproach of all peoples from all the earth. For the Lord has spoken."
c) It seems that death is swallowing up life, for someone dies every second of every day and of every night. Death never sleeps and it never stops eating up the peoples of the world as one by one they fall into its cavernous mouth. Yet God says that he will swallow up death with life. So instead of taking a short sighted view of life, and trying to wrest some pleasure from life before the jaws of death consume us, we take a long sighted view of life. It is not life that is temporary and death that is permanent, but the other way around. It is life that is permanent and death that is temporary. Whilst death swallows up life for a moment, life will swallow up death forever.
The End ...
1. Life Is Uncertaintya) Isaiah that are quoted in the New Testament leads us to think about the uncertainty of this life compared to the certainty of what lies beyond.
2. Death Swallowed Up In Victory
Isaiah 25:8
8 He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
a) But death is not the end of everything, rather it is more like the beginning. Paul goes on to teach about the "resurrection of the dead" and at the end of his marvelous lesson he quotes another passage from Isaiah, "He will swallow up death for ever" (Isaiah 28:5, 1 Corinthians 15:54).
b) This is a most beautiful statement. In full it reads, "He will swallow up the covering over all peoples, the veil stretched over all nations. He will swallow up death for ever. And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and he will remove the reproach of all peoples from all the earth. For the Lord has spoken."
c) It seems that death is swallowing up life, for someone dies every second of every day and of every night. Death never sleeps and it never stops eating up the peoples of the world as one by one they fall into its cavernous mouth. Yet God says that he will swallow up death with life. So instead of taking a short sighted view of life, and trying to wrest some pleasure from life before the jaws of death consume us, we take a long sighted view of life. It is not life that is temporary and death that is permanent, but the other way around. It is life that is permanent and death that is temporary. Whilst death swallows up life for a moment, life will swallow up death forever.
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