COMMENTARY

Old Testament: Isaiah 25:6-9
This passage looks forward to the day when God will offer a feast for all nations. A banquet is the Old Testament symbol of the consummation of God's saving purpose in history. The feast will be a celebration of God's victory over death. God will swallow death up forever and thus death will no longer plague mankind. This is the work of God, and people have reason to celebrate his salvation with joy.

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; 19-28
According to New Testament scholars, this is one of the most important passages in the New Testament. It is the earliest account of the resurrection. At the time Paul wrote, none of the gospels was in existence. In this passage Paul reminds the Corinthian Christians of the nature of the gospel which they and he rec…