VI: The Prophets' Visions

Every Tear Wiped Away

a court ruling vacating every sorrow

Root
Isa 25:8 · dim'ah (H1832)
Old Testament chain
  1. Ps 121:6
  2. Isa 25:8
  3. Isa 35:10
  4. Isa 49:10
  5. Isa 65:19
  6. Rev 21:4
New Testament
Rev 7:16-17; Rev 21:4

The Psalms first promise that "the sun shall not smite thee by day" (Ps 121:6). Isaiah carries it forward: "neither shall the heat nor sun smite them" (Isa 49:10); "Adonai Yahuah will wipe away tears from off all faces" (Isa 25:8); "sorrow and sighing shall flee away" (Isa 35:10). Revelation joins heat and tears and ends them together. These are judicial pronouncements, a court ruling that vacates every prior condition. Millennial teaching borrows Isa 65:19-20 for an earthly thousand-year kingdom, but Isaiah frames the passage with "I create new heavens and a new earth" (Isa 65:17), and Revelation sets the wiped tears there (Rev 21:1-4), not in an intermediate age.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 105, 349, 353