Isaiah 25:6 – The Feast on the Mountain
Feasting and eating is something very central in the Bible. Of course, eating is very central to human life! God has so designed that eating has a spiritual significance as well. After all, what was central in the covenant of works there in the garden before the fall? One of a couple of very central things was eating. “You may eat of everything within the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you must not eat.” We think of the eating of the Passover. The Passover’s been replaced with its New Testament equivalent – the Lord’s Supper. What is one of the main events, so to speak, when Christ returns? It is the marriage supper of the Lamb where we all sit down together.
Here is a picture, then, in verse six of this feast of grace. God is both the host and the One Who does the inviting. Some people, when they hear the gracious invitation of God, think that somehow they’d be presumptuous to come. “Oh, God surely cannot mean me,” but He does mean this. Come, everyone who wishes! Come, everyone who desires, come to this feast. There is no need to fear or hesitate that this invitation is not for you. It is not only for those who are outwardly clean and outwardly respectable. It is for the wicked, and it is for the nasty. You may think, ‘I am a terrible sinner. How would God want me?’ But it is an invitation for all people. Some might be tempted to think, ‘Well, God was speaking to the Jews, but I’m not of Jewish blood.’ No, it is an invitation for all people. It is for the poor. It is for the rich. It is for the old. It is for the young. It is an invitation for all people, no matter what their social status is, no matter what their economic position is, no matter what their country of origin is, no matter what their religion in the past has been.
The feast is at this mountain. What mountain is that? It is Mount Zion. It is in the church of Jesus Christ. In other words, this is the mountain where God dwells. This feast is here on the mountain in which Jesus Christ reigns.
Questions
- To whom does the invitation go?
- Where is the feast being held?
Prayer Points
- Pray that those we know and love would respond to this invitation.
- Use prayer points from your congregation.
- Pray for family matters.