“And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil
that is spread over all nations.”
(Isa 25:7, ASV)
In the previous teaching we saw that one of the primary images used to describe Satan, the old snake (Rev 12:9), is the manifestation of the dragon. We pointed out that our imagination makes this being manifest. The Bible pertinently uses the image of the dragon not because it is a book which wants to enrapture us with fantasy-like characters, but because it wants to point out that the Dragon brings “a spirit of unreality” into people’s lives. Throughout Scripture it is presented as a veil, that which covers the heart (2 Cor 3:15) and mind (Eph 4:18), a darkness covering the earth (=the unsaved world) (Isa 60:2).
In Isa 25:7 Yahweh makes the prophetic promise that there will come a time in the history of the world where “he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.”
The word covering in this verse is translated in other versions as web, the cloud of sorrow, the mask, even burial clothes. The LITV-translation calls it “the veil that is woven over all nations”. But interestingly enough the King James-translation uses the world vail, and not veil. In Hebrew both words are related, but have completely different definitions. Vail means “molten metal, molten image, molten gods, cast image” (which then makes covering a very good translation). The root word has associations with the concept of anointing, as well as “the fusion of metal”. This “covering of darkness” is thus at the same time an anointing which moulds you. In Isa 30:1 (KJV) it is clearly spelled out where the Lord states that it is to “cover with a covering, but not of my spirit”.
In other words – a different, demonic spirit is behind this process.
The most beautiful prototypical example of this in the Old Testament is the making of the golden calf in Ex 32. Aaron had gathered the earrings of the women and children (symbolically thus that which they had fastened to their ears, the demonic whispers), melted it and then made the idol. Moses, when he returned, reversed the entire process.
It is only on the mountain (the place one meets with God), that the veil/demonic covering/mould is destroyed.
The image of this covering which is poured out, which flows, and then becomes hard (like a solid, material substance) or dense (again, like a solid, material substance), is very important. As part of the reversal Moses had burned the calf in the fire, then ground it to powder, poured the powder into water, and made the Israelites drink it (Ex 32:20). What does this prophetic action mean for us?
If Jesus prays, in the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:13), He asks that we be delivered from Evil. In the original Greek the word deliver literally means to be pulled from a stream. We will elaborate on this in the next teaching.
- Sela: Pray Ps 144:7
- Read: 1 Sam 1-3
- Examine how this has been fulfilled: 1 Sam 1:13-14 (Tip: Zach 9:15; Acts 2:13).
