Conclusion of "A Stronghold to the Lowly One"

And there is more to this divinely provided banquet.  The spiritual feast that we now enjoy reminds us of the abundance of physical food that will be available in God's promised new world.  Then, the "banquet of well-oiled dishes" will include physical food in abundance.  No one will need to be hungry in a physical or spiritual sense.  what  relief that will be for those dear faithful ones who now suffer because of  the foretold "food shortages" that are part of "the sign" of Jesus' presence!  (Matthew 24:3, 7) For them, the words of the psalmist are comforting indeed.  He said: "There will come to be plenty of grain on the earth; on the top of the mountains there will be an overflow." -Psalm 72:16.

Listen now to an even more wonderful promise.  Comparing sin and death to a "woven work," or an envelopment," Isaiah says: "In this mountain [Jehovah] will certainly swallow up the face of the  envelopment that is enveloping  over all the peoples, and the woven work that is interwoven upon all the nation." (Isaiah 25:7)  Just think! Sin and death, which have weighed on mankind like a suffocating blanket, will be no more.  How we long for the day when the benefits of Jesus' ransom sacrifice are fully applied to obedient and faithful humankind! -Revelation 21:3, 4.

 Pointing to that glorious time, the inspired prophet  assures us: "[God] will actually swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces.  And the reproach of his people  he will take away from all the earth, for Jehovah himself has spoken it."  (Isaiah 25:8)  No one will die from natural causes or week because of losing a loved one.  What a blessed change!  Furthermore, nowhere on earth will there be heard  the reproach and lying propaganda that God and his servants have so long endured. Why not? Because Jehovah will remove their source-the father of the lie, Satan the Devil, along with all of Satan's seed. -John 8:44.

Next time:SALVATION FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE LIGHT

 The Watchtower, 2001