The Prophet Isaiah, in his forecast of the time when the human race would be restored to health and life, wrote that all the blind eyes would be opened. It was in keeping with this that Jesus, in order to show forth the glory of his coming kingdom work, restored sight to some of the blind in his day.—Isa. 35:5,6

Isaiah also prophesied that the time would come when “the lame man shall leap as an hart,” and Jesus restored some of the cripples of his day and thus foreshadowed still further the coming “times of restitution of all things.”

Even death itself will be destroyed by divine power. The Lord “will swallow up death in victory,” we are assured in another Old Testament prophecy, “and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.” (Isa. 25:8) Jesus illustrated this promised victory over death by awakening some from the sleep of death, thus demonstrating that death does not stand in the way of the divine plan for restoring the people to health and life.