Q2. The Great Supper

[Pastor Ralph]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this “feast of rich food for all peoples”  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?

[IvoryEagle]

Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples"  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament?

 

What does it promise about the Last Days?  TOTAL INCLUSION OF ALL WHO SERVED GOD.  Yahweh has not only destroyed the proud and wicked, he has aided the poor, those who cannot help themselves.

 

"This mountain" doubtless refers to the New Jerusalem, as it did earlier in Isaiah (2:2) The great banquet that Isaiah foresees is referred to many times in the New Testament:

"Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God."

 

 

 

[royk]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples"  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?

 

To be rid of worldly needs and desires, it seems in some ways I feel this, dying in me. Part of me is trying to hold on and "have the world" yet another part is moving me closer to God. I know God will win this struggle in me.

 

This is the true feast, to belong totally committed to his kingdom, to say yes and follow a new path that He provides; this feast in Revelations is for now when God uses us to reveal a Himself to other through us.

 

Praise the Lord for this Rich Feast with Him in His house of eternity energy. Deeply, truly believing is the ticket to this banquet. Let us invite others as God command us in the moment.

 

[JanMary]

Pastor Ralph, on 01 Aug 2013 - 9:59 PM, said:

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this feast of rich food for all peoples is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?

a. It's symbolic of His coronation festival inaugurating the Lord's reign on the earth, juxtaposed against all of the gloom, judgment and terror of the last days (tribulation period) prior to His second coming! His Bride, the Church, which was raptured, will join Him in His earthly reign, and the people who survived the tribulation (including the Jews who will now recognize Jesus, their Messiah) will worship Him on His holy hill in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 55:1,2: Wait and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come buy and eat! Yes come, buy (priceless spiritual) wine and milk without money and without price (simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing.) Why to you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness (the profuseness of spiritual joy!)

b. His death for us and His Resurrection swallowed up death in victory, and will wipe away the tears from all the faces, and He will take away the reproach of His people Israel.

[Squirt]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples"  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament?
    For the Old Testament Jews, the feast represents the coming of the promised Kingdom Age when the Messiah will reign over Israel and the Gentiles will come to Zion to worship.  In the New Testament, this is the wedding feast.    


 What does it promise about the Last Days?

     Rev 21:4  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away.
 

 

[Lion of Grace]

The " feast of rich food for all people" is symbolic of the wedding Feast of The Lamb. On the mountain of Jerusalem, the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of "rich food" for all people. "Rich food" implies lavishly good food.The best there is to offer. A banquet of aged wine, the best meat and finest wine.

There is no good thing the Lord will withhold from His covenant people. (Both Jews and Gentiles) We will sup with the Lamb for we will be His Bride. He is the bread of life and we shall have our fill. He is the living water and all thirst will be quenched for He has given Himself to us! Oh glorious day! He confers on us His Kingdom and His servants will have their share! He will supply all the needs of His people during the Messianic Kingdom. We will be full for it will be a feast of fat things. (In Jewish tradition the fat was considered the choicest parts) We will be at a feast where God is the host and all of His guests will receive from Him the choicest of food and gifts. It will be a feast of much joy for we will at last rest in our Beloved!

[Guitar Jim]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this “feast of rich food for all peoples”  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament?

 

The feast of Heaven is a symbolic theme that indictes the celebration of God's final victory over every enemy, every power raised against Him, including Satan and his demons, the anti-Christ, sin, and death itself. There the redeemed in Christ will celebrate together the peace of God and the establishment of His everlasting Kingdom. At last God and the remnant, the people who love God and His Messiah will fellowship together. God's long range plan for the making right of all things will have been accomplished.

 

 

 

What does it promise about the Last Days?

 

The last days, the great tribulation and all the destruction that will accompany it, will culminate in a great victory for God. He will usher in everlasting peace and fellowship with Himself for the elect. For those who remain faithful to Jesus and His teachings and who don't love the world and perishable things, a fellowship feast with God Himself will be their reward in the end when all things have been made new. God will make His home among man as He wanted to in the beginning before sin entered the picture. The new Jerusalem will be Heaven on earth.

[Windcatcher]

• A satisfaction or a fullfilment of that longing we all have for our Creator. A place of rest, peace and joy for at last we are with our Beloved.

[Skinnykenny]

The language of the prophet speaks and foretells of the holy Eucharistic feast which all the world has been invited but only many will accept. With the advent of Jesus Christ he heralded in the last days and we have been living these last days for 2,000 years.

 

The faithfully obedient have continuously partaken of the heavenly banquet since our Lord Jesus Christ instituted his holy Eucharist in the upper-room and completed his "aqdah" upon Mt. Calvary and drinking the fourth cup of the Passover while upon His holy cross as he said I thirst and was given gall / vinegar wine and then declared it is finished (complete).

 

This divine and heavenly banquet "on earth as it is in heaven" is the consumption of the "actual and true flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ." Those who eat His flesh have his life within them and those who drink his blood are entered into the New and ever lasting Covenant of God.  

 

Christ's Bride will suffer all of the identical suffering that her Creator endured and overcame through His resurrection 3 days later, and so too His Bride will suffer the same fate and 3 1/2 days later overcome through her resurrection holy and unblemished, and this accomplished through her divine Grooms authority and power alone.

[hanks]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8)

Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples" is a symbol of something more than just good food.

What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament?

What does it promise about the Last Days?

This theme symbolically represents the end of evil and the joy of spending eternity with God. To think there will be no more suffering, no more death, and all our sorrows will be turned into joy! It will be attended by all who have been living by faith – those that have put their trust in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. What an awesome God we serve! However, for unbelievers they have nothing to look forward to. All they hold onto are their world values: money, popularity, power, pleasure, and prestige. We see life from an eternal perspective. After the Marriage Ceremony held in heaven (Rev 19:9), this feast (The Marriage Supper) will be an earthly feast and will take place at the beginning of the Millennium. 

 

 

[RD35]

^{Not very sure, maybe the feast represents God’s reward for the righteous, to the one’s who obeyed and endured to the end.  It will be a joyful time.}

[wjcargile]

It represents the feast with JESUS CHRIST and all who have lived for the Kingdom of God.

In the last days God will reward His peoples.

"The Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples a banquet of aged wine--The best meat and the finest wines".

The Lord Almighty will reward His peoples, all who have obeyed His Commendment and followed His pathway in the last days.

[haar]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples"  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?
 

 

"feast of rich food for all peoples" is symbol representing the assembly of God's redeemed ones gathered together by the Lord Jesus Christ at His second coming and they live with Him in heaven to die no more in eternity.

 

Then there will be no more sorrow, no more pain, no more crying but joyful worship and praise to the Lord God Almighty.

[antonate]

feast of rich food for all p.eoples is a symbol of people dwelling in God's glorious presence. There will be no sorrow and pain but God's elect who have been faithful to him will enjoy riches of heaven.

In the new testament it represents the coming of Jesus Christ (Rev 19) where the bride prepares herself for the bridegroom and the wedding of the Lamb symbolises this. Those waiting for Christ's return are blessed when he comes and takes them away to be with him to dwell in his rich glorious presence.

It promises eternal life for those who have been obidient to Yahweh and in the last days these chosen ones will reap eternal life in heaven.

[Delivered]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples" is a symbol of something more than just good food, what does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament and promises about the Last Days?

To me it is a symbol that represents a remnant of believers that come from all nations, a people who rejoice in the Messiah, King of the Jews, the only One who offers great joy to all that will hear the knocking at their door of salvation, the knock that prompts belief and trust, the knock that can remove those intellectual and emotional barriers that hold back faith and trust, and instead will allow the heart to hear, and in repentance cries out for the door to be opened to where they may sit and eat food prepared for them, where they will have the opportunity to feast on RICH FOOD, (spiritual nourishment) that will strengthen them.

 

The metaphor of meal-sharing implies to me a time of fellowship and affection, a time of sharing and intimacy, Yeshua, (Jesus) promises to be present with anyone who genuinely desires to eat and drink with him, Jew or Gentile alike. This is real “JOY” to me.

 

 

 

[angelbaby]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples"  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament?

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is a magnificent future occasion. The saints down through time have wondered about it. It is alluded to in the Hebrew prophetic poetry. And it is clearly outlined in Revelation chapter 19. At a future point in holy history the ELECT will be gathered out of this present era of space and time. They will pass beyond this earthly pale to enter into the eternal realms. Afterthe judgement the saints will pass through the gates of splendor to enter the mansions of glory. Just inside they will come into the banqueting hall of the the Great King. There they will be ushered into an experience they have never had before. It will be a love feast with their Messiah.

What does it promise about the Last Days?

This will be a glorious consummation of this age. It is beyond the power of words to describe. The scriptures clearly indicate that our entry way into this climactic love feast will come at the consummation, that is the very close of this present evil age.

[luvsTHEbook]

1. Question 2   (Isaiah 25:6-8)
   1. Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples"  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament?
      1. The final consummation for the elect and God referred to as the ‘feast’.

2. What does it promise about the Last Days?
   1. That HE will be with me.

[humblejon]

Jesus proclaimed Himself as the Bread of Life, that He will provide Living Waters, and no one will hunger and thirst no more (spiritually) if they come to Him--their only source of salvation. Spritual food, and the joy that results from it, is promised by Christ though the Holy Spirit and will totally fulfilled at His second coming--which is the wedding feast of the Lamb and His bride, the church. Throughout Revelations 19-22, we learn that death will be defeated, sorrow eradicated, and God's people will be spiritually fed be the Tree and Fountain of Life!

[NancyinBelize]

This is a terrific question. Most of the answers above described the metaphor but not what it symbolizes. All of the descriptions of a feast to celebrate God's victory and Christ's coronation (above)..a wedding feast are still describing the image the metaphor presents. Yet, Pastor Ralph asked, if it is NOT truly about food , what does the feast represent?

I think Humblejon (above) nailed it when he said, "we will hunger and thirst no more (spiritually)."

The feast represents our fellowship with God and Jesus....being able to see them face to face, and talk with them! Drinking in their presence and devouring every word they say will be a feast.

[NancyinBelize]

Now if I could only learn how to stop double posting by accident. Very sorry!

[Jen]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this "feast of rich food for all peoples" is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?

 

Good food is a symbol for plenty, all peoples means all the redeemed.  I believe that we will feast on the Word of God with the Word.  Food also but who cares when one can feast on the Word and not need food. There will be plenty of feasting.  If we could just think of that when we are eyeing the things of the world.  I don't think it is wrong to have things just to put them in their place relative to what scripture promises us.  And while we are here we can already feast on the Word.  Thank you Jesus!  You are so unbelievably good to us.

 

God Bless!

Jen

Jude 24, 25

 

[charisbarak]

The theme is the preparation for the New Jerusalem and The Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the N.T.

To be with Him forever!

[Alexander Mengistu]

#2    

The feast is not just about eating and drinking; it is about joining the kingdom of God. "Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!" (Revelation    19:9)

 

 

[Craig]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this “feast of rich food for all peoples”  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?

 

This theme represents the fellowship with the Lord and other believers from throughout the ages at the end of the age upon Jesus' Second Advent.  It is a time of reunion, happiness, joy, relief, grace, love and I go on and on with this.  The overcomers have made it home and what a day of rejoicing that will be in the presence of the Living God -- Yawheh. 

[GoRaysXD]

Q2. (Isaiah 25:6-8) Obviously this “feast of rich food for all peoples”  is a symbol of something more than just good food. What does this theme represent in Isaiah and the New Testament? What does it promise about the Last Days?

 

 

This theme represents the fellowship with the Lord and other believers from throughout the ages at the end of the age upon Jesus' Second Advent.  It is a time of reunion, happiness, joy, relief, grace, love and I go on and on with this.  The overcomers have made it home and what a day of rejoicing that will be in the presence of the Living God -- Yawheh.