Exposition on YashaYahu 25:6-9

Isa 25:6  And in this mountain יהוה of hosts shall make for all people a feast of fat things/shaman H8081, a feast of wines on the lees/shamar H8105, of fat things/shaman H8081 with marrow/machah H4229, of wine on the lees/shamar H8105, well-refined/zaqaq H2212.

Isa 25:7  And He shall swallow up on this mountain the face of the covering/lut H3875 which covers/lut H3874 all people, and the veil/masakah H4541 which is spread/nasak H5259 over all nations/guym H1471.

Isa 25:8  He shall swallow up death in victory, and the Master יהוה shall wipe away tears from all faces, and take away the reproach of His people from all the earth. For יהוה has spoken.

Isa 25:9  And it shall be said in that day, “See, this is our Elohim. We have waited for Him, and He saves us. This is יהוה, we have waited for Him, let us be glad and rejoice in His deliverance.”

1Co 15:54  And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Rev 7:17  because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shall shepherd them and lead them to fountains of waters of life. And Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Rev 21:3  And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.

Rev 21:4  “And Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying. And there shall be no more pain, for the former matters have passed away.”

The verses Yashayahu 25:6-9 are a promise of deliverance by Yahusha ha Mashiyach in whom death is swallowed up in victory and Alahym will wipe away every tear from their eyes. I have color coded the parallel’s in the Renewed Covenant to show the promise of taking away of the reproach. With this background now we can look closely at what YashaYahu 25:6-7 is spiritually showing us.

Verse 6 begins with ‘And in this mountain יהוה of hosts shall make for all people a feast….’ The previous chapter the last verse says….

Isa 24:23  And the moon/labanah H3842 shall blush/chapar H2659, and the sun/chammah H2535 shall be ashamed/bush H954, for יהוה of hosts shall reign on Mount Tsiyon, and in Yerushalayim, and before His elders, in esteem!

The Abary word for moon in scripture is ‘yarach’ H3394 and for sun is ‘shamash’ H8121. Why the translators have translated the word ‘labanah’ which means ‘white H3836, brick (from the whiteness of clay)’ H3835 & H3843 as moon?

Why is the word ‘chammah’ which means ‘heat/fury/wrath/poison/rage/displeasure/anger’ H2528, H2534, H2535 translated as sun?

While the translators would have their reason as the white/laban as the moon light and the chammah/furious heat as the bright hot sun, the translations dilute the entire text. We must see the Hebrew words closely to understand what the Ruach is showing us here.

The whole chapter 24 speaks of Yahuah destroying the earth because they crossed over his Torah and changed his ordinance and made void his everlasting covenant.

Isa 24:5  For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have crossed over/abar the Torot, changed the ordinance, made void the everlasting covenant.

Isa 24:6  Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.

The chapter ends with verse 23 which we will look at closer along with the verses in chapter 25 where Yahuah says he does this to take away the reproach away from his people.

The word ‘labanah’ means ‘bricks’ and its closely related to Yasharal in the house of bondage in Egypt where they made bricks for the Egyptians to build their buildings.

Exo 5:7  “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks/labanah H3843 as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exo 5:8  “And lay on them the required amount of bricks/labanah H3843 which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.’

The labanah/bricks (white as in clay, as the white moon light) will be ‘chapar’  H2659 confounded, ashamed, reproached, confused

 ‘chammah’ which means ‘heat/fury/wrath/poison/rage/displeasure/anger H2528, H2534’ 

 ‘bush’ H954 ashamed, confounded, shame, confusion, delayed, dry, long, shamed

YashaYahu 24:23 The bricks will be confused and the heat will be confused for יהוה of hosts shall reign on Mount Tsiyon, and in Yerushalayim, and before His elders, in esteem!

If you remember Yahuah came down in Egypt to see the affliction of his people

Exo 3:7  And יהוה said, “I have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows.

Exo 3:8  “And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitsrites, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Kenaʽanites and the Ḥittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites.

Isa 63:7  Let me recount the kindnesses of יהוה and the praises of יהוה, according to all that יהוה has done for us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yisra’ĕl, which He has done for them according to His compassion, and according to His many kindnesses.

Isa 63:8  And He said, “They are My people, children who do not act falsely.” And He became their Saviour.

Isa 63:9  In all their distress He was distressed, and the Messenger of His Presence saved them. In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

YashaYahu 24:23 is a picture of Yahuah starting to end the slavery of his people in Egypt when he sent his servant Masha and Aharon to tell Pharaoh to let his people go and Pharoah asked to take away the straw and put them to the task of confusion of making bricks in the heat of the day without the provision of straw. This was the beginning of the plaguing of Egypt and His people didn’t understand his plan of deliverance yet. Yahuah is taking account from the enemies of Yasharal of the bitter slavery by putting the confusion in their labor.

Exo 5:10  And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you straw.

Exo 5:11  ‘Go, take straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ”

Exo 5:12  And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.

Exo 5:13  And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete your work, your daily amount, as when there was straw.”

Exo 5:14  Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?”

Exo 5:15  And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?

Exo 5:16  “There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And see, your servants are beaten, but your own people are at fault.”

Exo 5:17  But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and slaughter to יהוה.’

Exo 5:18  “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.”

While Yahuah is judging the earth, he will take account of the bitter bondage of his people and will require from the inhabitants of the earth for the shame and confusion they brought about on His people when they were in the desolation of the nations.

Isa 25:1  O יהוה, You are my Elohim. I exalt You, I praise Your Name, for You shall do a wonder – counsels of long ago, trustworthiness, truth.

Isa 25:2  For You shall make a city a heap, a walled city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more – never to be rebuilt.

Isa 25:3  Therefore a strong people praise You, the city of the ruthless nations fear You.

Isa 25:4  For You shall be a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the spirit of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.

Isa 25:5  You subdue the noise of foreigners, as heat in a dry place/Tsiyon H6724; as heat in the shadow of a cloud, the singing of the ruthless is subdued.

The word ‘Tsiyon’ H6724 which means ‘a dry place/desert’ is also called the city where Yahuah inhabits with his people….He came down to see the affliction of his people in the heat/dry/fury of the sun and led them through the desert into a fruitful land.

‘Tsiyon’ H3725 also means sign, title, waymark, a guiding pillar.

The way to Yahuah is through the guiding pillar/waymark through the desert. The way is not comfortable but it’s worth the walk as He is with His people in the midst of all their affliction and will repay the enemies of His people with the shame and confusion of the bitterness of what they repaid his people when they were in the desolation of the nations.

Isa 25:6  And in this mountain יהוה of hosts shall make for all people a feast of fat things/shaman H8081, a feast of wines on the lees/shamar H8105, of fat things/shaman H8081 with marrow/machah H4229, of wine on the lees/shamar H8105, well-refined.

‘And in this mountain…Mount Tsiyon…the waymark, the guiding pillar to Yahuah through the furnace of affliction, Yahuah will make for His people a feast of fat things. The Hebrew word for ‘fat things’ is ‘shaman’ which also means the anointing oil.

Exo 29:7  and shall take the anointing/mashchah H4888 oil/shaman H8081, and pour it on his(Aharon’s) head and anoint him.

The root word ‘machah’ H4229 translated as ‘marrow’ is in the word ‘mashchah’ H4888 ‘anointing’ and has also the root word ‘mach’ which means ‘strike/marrow/fat one’

The Hebrew word ‘shamar’ H8105 is translated as ‘wine on the lees’. Wine on the lees means once the new wine is made the residue of the fermenting agent of the wine when poured in the bottle settles down at the bottom of the bottle. The ‘residue’ was the ‘active agent’ in the whole process of making the grape juice to the ‘sweet wine’ and this same word ‘shamar’ means ‘guard/watch/keep/protect’ H8104

The ‘active agent’ through the natural process guarded the entire process in a transformation. The Ruach of Yahusha is the active agent in filling our lives with the transformation to the image of Yahusha through his Word/Dabar.

Luk 22:20  Likewise the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood which is shed for you.

YashaYahu 25:6 shows us the feast or banquet or drink/mashtah reserved for his people on Mount Tsiyon where Yahuah rules, is shaman/oil, a feast of shamar/guarding, shaman/oil with machah/striking into the marrow of shamar/guarding poured out/zaqaq

Heb 4:12 For the word/dabar of the Elohim is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword,and piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow/mach, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

His dabar/word is the living and active agent who through the Ruach the two-edged sword pierces deep bringing the revelation of Mashiyach.

Eph 6:17  Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Ruach, which is the Word/Dabar of Elohim,

The feasting is in Mashiyach, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings. (Phil 3:10)

The brethren dwelling in unity is likened to the precious oil/shaman poured out on the head of Aharon and the oil runs down on his beard, runs down on the collar of his robes like the dew of Hermon descending upon the mountains of Tsiyon (desert/dry place)

Psa 133:1  See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity –

Psa 133:2  Like the precious oil/shaman H8081 on the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aharon, Running down on the collar of his robes –

Psa 133:3  Like the dew of Ḥermon, That comes down on the mountains of Tsiyon. For there יהוה commanded the blessing, Life forever!

Aharon was the high priest who stood in the office of Yahusha ha Mashiyach and we saw in Exo 29:7 the anointing/mashchah oil/shaman like marrow/machah (root word in mashchah) is poured out on his head…Pslams 133 shows that this oil runs down his head to his beard and down to his garments. We are the body of Yahusha our high priest and this mashchah shaman from his head and beard reaches down to us. We the brethren are of his body and dwelling in unity as members of his body are knit together in knowing him, the power of his resurrection and fellowship in his sufferings.

1Co 12:12  For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Messiah.

1Co 12:13  For indeed by one Spirit/Ruach we were all immersed into one body, whether Yehuḏim or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

1Co 12:14  For indeed the body is not one member but many.

1Co 12:15  If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” does it therefore not belong to the body?

1Co 12:16  And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” does it therefore not belong to the body?

1Co 12:17  If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?

1Co 12:18  But now Elohim has set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as He pleased.

1Co 12:19  And if they all had been one member, where would the body be?

1Co 12:20  And now, there are indeed many members, but one body.

1Co 12:21  And an eye is unable to say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

1Co 12:22  But much rather, those members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary.

Isa 25:7  And He shall swallow/bala H1104 up on this mountain the face of the covering/lut H3875 which covers/lut H3874 all people, and the veil/masakah H4541 which is spread/nasak H5259 over all nations/guym H1471.

Yahuah will  swallow/bala up on this mountain i.e. Mt Tsiyon the face of the covering over all people. The Hebrew word for covering is lut H3875 and the same word with same spelling is the name of Abraham's nephew 'Lot' H3876 which means 'veil/covering/wrap'. The word 'masakah' H4541 should be correctly translated as 'molten/image' and the word 'masakah' is a root of the primitive 'nasak' H5258 which means 'to cast metal', 'pour out as in anointing a king with a picture of the oil spreading'


massêkâh H4541
mas-say-kaw'

From H5258; properly a pouring over, that is, fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication a libation, that is, league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out): - covering, molten (image), vail.

nâsak H5258
naw-sak'

A primitive root; to pour out, especially a libation, or to cast (metal); by analogy to anoint a king: - cover, melt, offer, (cause to) pour (out), set (up).

The molten covering spread over the guym/nations (12 tribes scattered to the ends of the earth) will be swallowed up when he judges the earth in his wrath. He will unveil who his scattered sheep of Yasharal are who by geographic location are guym/gentiles but by roots are Yasharal.

Rom 8:19  For the intense longing of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim.

The Hebrew word 'bala' H1104 translated as 'swallow' also means 'destroy,eat up, consume, devour, spend up'. The root word in bala is 'bal' which means 'flowing down, none, nothing'  H1077. And the word 'balah' H1086 means 'wax old, spend, consume, wear out'

All that caused the flow of tears of vanity from the eyes (as the above picture depicts) for the lost, Yahuah will consume, eat up, swallow up on My Tsiyon the covering of molten which is spread over all the people called guym/gentiles. His true sons will be revealed.

Shaul the apostle was zealous for the written Torah and persecuted and witnessed the killing of the Natsraim (believers in Mashiyach). Little did he know that he was chosen by Yahusha ha Mashiyach as an emissary to the Gentiles/Guym (the lost sheep from 12 tribes). In his encounter with Mashiyach on the road to Damascus the dazzling light caused him partial blindness with scales on his eyes which by laying of hands by Hananyah fell off his eyes

Act 9:15  But the Master said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My Name before nations/guym, sovereigns, and the children of Yisra’ĕl. 
Act 9:16  “For I shall show him how much he has to suffer for My Name.” 
Act 9:17  And Ḥananyah went away and went into the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Sha’ul, the Master יהושע, who appeared to you on the way as you came, has sent me, so that you might see again and be filled with the Set-apart Spirit.” 

Act 9:18  And immediately there fell from his eyes, as it were scales, and he received his sight. And rising up, he was immersed.

With the scales fallen of he would now see his calling clearly in the way he has to go to gather the sons of Aluahym.

The rolling of the tomb stone (like the eye) where Yahusha was laid caused Miriam to see the two messengers, one sitting at the head and one at the feet indicating that Yahusha is that ladder on which the angels of Aluahym ascended and descended on John 1:51 as well as the mercy seat over which the cherubs overshadowed. What her eyes couldn't see earlier it would be revealed by the opening of her and the disciples eyes to understand this truth.

Joh 20:11  But Miryam was standing outside by the tomb weeping. Then as she wept, she stooped down to the tomb, 

Joh 20:12  and saw two messengers in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of יהושע had been laid. 

Yahusha is the one said to be folding the molten like a mantle/garment spread over the earth.

Heb 1:10  And, “You, Master, did found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. 
Heb 1:11  “They shall perish, but You remain. And they shall all grow old like a garment, 

Heb 1:12  and like a mantle You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail.” 

The word 'massekah' H4541 has the root word 'masuah' H4533 which means 'vail'

Exo 34:33  And when Mosheh ended speaking with them, he put a veil/masuah H4533 on his face. 
Exo 34:34  But whenever Mosheh went in before יהוה to speak with Him, he would remove the alaph tau/ H853 veil/masuah H4533 until he came out. And when he came out he spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl what he had been commanded, 

Exo 34:35  and the children of Yisra’ĕl would see the face of Mosheh, that the skin of Mosheh’s face shone, and Mosheh would put the alaph tau H853 veil/masuah H4533 on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him. 

The alaph tau before the veil/masuah indicates the mark of Yahusha and we see the veil taken off in him

2Co 3:9  For if the administering of condemnation had esteem, the administering of righteousness exceeds much more in esteem. 
2Co 3:10  For indeed what was made esteemed had no esteem in this respect, in view of the esteem that excels. 
2Co 3:11  For if that which is passing away was esteemed, much more that which remains in esteem. 
2Co 3:12  Having then such expectation, we use much boldness of speech, 
2Co 3:13  and not like Mosheh, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Yisra’ĕl should not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 
2Co 3:14  But their minds were hardened, for to this day, when the old covenant is being read, that same veil remains, not lifted, because in Messiah it is taken away. 
2Co 3:15  But to this day, when Mosheh is being read, a veil lies on their heart. 
2Co 3:16  And when one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away. 
2Co 3:17  Now יהוה is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of יהוה is, there is freedom. 

2Co 3:18  And we all, as with unveiled face we see as in a mirror the esteem of יהוה, are being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to esteem, as from יהוה, the Spirit. 

Also it was a mystery that the remnant among the gentiles/guym (the 12 tribes of Yasharal) who were scattered to the ends of the earth would be brought back into the fold as the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal. In YashaYahu 25:7 Yahuah by prophecy is letting us know that he will swallow up on this mountain the face of the covering which covers the people and the veil which is spread over all the nations.

Eph 3:1  Because of this I, Sha’ul, am the prisoner of יהושע Messiah on behalf of you gentiles 
Eph 3:2  if indeed you have heard of the administration of the favour of Elohim that was given to me for you, 
Eph 3:3  that by revelation was made known to me the secret, as I wrote before briefly. 
Eph 3:4  In reading this, then, you are able to understand my insight into the secret of Messiah, 
Eph 3:5  which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it has now been revealed by the Ruach to His set-apart emissaries and prophets: 
Eph 3:6  The gentiles to be co-heirs, united in the same body, and partakers together in the promise in Messiah through the basarah, 
Eph 3:7  of which I became a servant according to the gift of the favour of Elohim given to me, according to the working of His power. 

Eph 3:8  To me, the very least of all the set-apart ones, this favour was given, to bring the basarah of the unsearchable riches of Messiah among the gentiles, 

After Kepha's encounter with Cornelius, a lost sheep of the house of Yasharal in dispersion it was opened up to them (earlier they were not open to this truth) that Yahuah has chosen his remnant whom he had once divorced and scattered to the ends of the earth. With Shaul coming in to the fold it was revealed further to separate him and Barnabah for the gathering of the chosen of the 12 tribes scattered abroad.

Act 13:1  And in the assembly that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: both Barnaḇah and Shimʽon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaḥĕm who had been brought up with Herodes the district ruler, and Sha’ul. 
Act 13:2  And as they were doing service to the Master and fasted, the Set-apart Spirit said, “Separate unto Me Barnaḇah and Sha’ul for the work to which I have called them.” 

Act 13:3  Then having fasted and prayed, and having laid hands on them, they sent them away. 

1Pe 1:1  Kĕpha, an emissary of יהושע Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the scattering in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia, 

1Pe 1:2  chosen according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, set apart by the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of יהושע Messiah: Favour and peace be increased to you.

Jas 1:1  Yaʽaqoḇ, a servant of Elohim and of the Master יהושע Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings.

Isa 25:8  He shall swallow up death forever, and the Master יהוה shall wipe away tears from all faces, and take away the reproach of His people from all the earth. For יהוה has spoken. 

Isa 25:9  And it shall be said in that day, “See, this is our Elohim. We have waited for Him, and He saves us. This is יהוה, we have waited for Him, let us be glad and rejoice in His deliverance.”