Easter's Future

In his great chapter on the Savior's resurrection, Paul is reminded of Isaiah's feast and points us forward to the day when we will put on imperishable bodies. Some believers will not die, but most of us will have our bodies cast into the ground and covered with dirt, like a seed. But eventually all God's children will put on incorruptible bodies and feast together. This is the final act when Isaiah's scene of death swallowed forever comes true (1 Corinthians 15:51–54).
Our personal individual resurrection ushers us into a feast that we find written about in the final chapters of the Bible. There the children of God join a wedding celebration with the risen Lamb. Here, once again, the themes of our tears and Christ's resurrection get connected.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. (Revelation 21:4)

Which explains why God's party-plan to stop every sorrow and dry every tear touches the very heart of the empty tomb. There should be no tears shed at an empty tomb, the striking point that confronts Mary on Easter morning (John 20:11–13). "Woman, why are you weeping?" The question from the mouth of a perplexed angel makes a profound theological point: Nothing is more out of place than tears of sorrow dripping into the dirt where death has been defeated.