REJOICING IN THOSE WHO WALK IN THE LIGHT -"A Stronghold to the Lowly One"

Listen  now to an even more wonderful promise.  Comparing sin and death to a "woven work," or and "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 nations."  (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 weep because of losing a loved on.  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. 

Upon contemplating such manifestations of Jehovah's power, those who walk in the light are moved to exclaim:  "Look! This is our God. We have hoped in him, and he will, save us.  This is Jehovah. We have hoped in him.  Let us be joyful  and rejoice in the salvation by him."  (Isaiah 25:9)  Soon, righteous mankind will have every reason to rejoice.  The darkness will be completely dispelled and faithful ones will be bathed in Jehovah's light for all eternity.  Could any hope be more glorious?? No, indeed!

Next time: SALVATION OF THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE LIGHT

The Watchtower, 2001