No more death!  No more tears!  No more reproach!

Part 2

Yesterday:
“He will swallow up death in victory.”
Jesus Christ has done this!  He is the only one to have the “victory over death.”

Today:
“And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces.”
What a blessed truth!  No one can make the woes and pains of this world right, as God can, and will.  Evidently, He will do it in a moment.

“Wherever there is a tear on any face whatever, Jehovah wipes it away; and if Jehovah wipes away, this must be done most thoroughly: He removes the cause with the outward symptom, the sin as well as the tear.  It is self-evident that this applies to the church triumphant.  The world has been judged, and what was salvable has been saved.” [1]

Our God will make all things right!

“And the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth.”
This “rebuke,” or the reproach of God’s people He pronounced on them on their way into the Promised Land.  All the Gentile nations have something against God’s people.

“And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee” (Deuteronomy 28:37).

“Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people” (Psalm 44:14).

“Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people” (Lamentations 3:45).

This has indeed been shown to be true among God’s Children of Israel.  And even God’s child today is not welcome in this ungodly world.

“Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day” (1 Corinthians 4:13).

Isaiah is showing us that there will come a time when this reproach God’s people bear, will be removed forever.

But how can we know all of these great things are going to happen?

“For the LORD hath spoken it.”
That’s enough said!

[1] Keil & Delitzsch, Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament, the electronic version in eSword.