The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

image: mafleen~ Revelation 19:6-10

Every story is about one thing: a quest.

And they lived happily ever after….

What if there really is a fairytale ending to all

of history?

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

image: mafleen~ Revelation 19:6-10

6 Then I heard what seemed to be the

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the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the soundof mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.”

7 Let us rejoice and exult and give himthe glory, for the marriage of the Lambhas come, and his Bride has made her-self ready….

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“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

~ John the Baptist in the Gospel of John, 1:29

Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the

living creatures and the elders the voice of many

angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of

thousands, saying with a loud voice,“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,to receive power and wealth and

wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

~ Revelation 5:11-13

“…And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

~ Revelation 5:11-13

~ The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5:31

“‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his

mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall

become one flesh.’ This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church.”

“…marriage, in its deepest meaning, is a copy of Christ and the church. If you want

to understand God’s meaning for marriage, you have to grasp that we are dealing with a copy of an original, a metaphor of a greater reality, a parable

and a greater truth…

“…The original, the reality, the truth refer to…Christ’s

marriage to the church. And the copy, the metaphor, the

parable refer to human marriage between a husband and a wife.”

7 Let us rejoice and exult and give himthe glory, for the marriage of the Lambhas come, and his Bride has made her-self ready; it was granted for her to clotheherself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deedsof the saints.

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“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from your own doing; it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may

boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared

beforehand, that we should walk in them.”~ The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:8-10

9 And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to themarriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words ofGod.”

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“On 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.”

~ Isaiah 25

“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.”

~ Isaiah 55

9 And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to themarriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words ofGod.”

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10 Then I fell down at his feet to worshiphim, and he said to me, “You must notdo that! I am a fellow servant with you andyour brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.”

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The mystery of love, marriage, & sexuality points to the greater

reality of the marriage supper of the Lamb & His Bride.

Accept the invitation.1

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Adorn the Gospel.

”““…that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God

our Savior. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness

and worldly passions, and to live self- controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed

hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.”

~ The Apostle Paul in Titus 2:10b-14

Heighten your anticipation.3

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a

lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so

great and beautiful that I cannot write them.

And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most

truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for

them it was only the beginning of the real story.

All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and

the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no

one on earth has read—which goes on for ever—in which every chapter is better than

the one before.

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him….”

~ The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:9 ~

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