The Most Exciting Supper

Have you ever thought about how important food is in our culture? I read something the other day about people having dinner parties without food and it just sounded sad. If we want to meet up with friends or have an important meeting with someone, going to lunch or dinner or even breakfast is a normal way to do it. We socialize, discuss things, and make business decisions while we eat.

I’m really not sure how this started but I do know we’ve done it for a while. In fact, we find the same pattern emerging throughout the Bible. I think of Abraham inviting his guests, which turned out to be Jesus and two angels, to eat with him. I think of David and Mephibosheth, Esther and Xerxes, and of course, Jesus and the many times we find Him eating with people. But the most exciting supper of all is mentioned by an angel in the book of Revelation: “Then he said to me, ‘Write: “Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!”’” (Revelation 19:9). The book concludes, three chapters later, with an invitation to each one of us to attend that supper. Won’t you accept that invitation today?