the Great Feast

We were made for feasting at a Great Feast!

Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

And [Jesus] said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

This mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.

And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.

~ Rev 19:9b; Isa 55:1-2; Lk 22:15-16; Isa 25:6-8; Lk 13:29

PS I am quite aware of the hermeneutical difficulties of stringing these passages together; consider the theme, not the hermeneutics... or, just watch for another blog post. :)