The ultimate fulfillment of redemptive eating will occur at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In His first coming, Christ inaugurated that feast but He has not yet consummated it. As we found in Simeon's Song, God's salvation comes with the arrival of the Messiah. Jesus is God's salvation, “prepared” in the presence of all peoples. God began spreading His Table of redemption at Christ's first coming for Jesus is our Paschal Lamb. This saving Table will eventually flourish into that glorious feast foretold by the prophet Isaiah, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. There is also a sense in which the gathering around that Table has already begun. God's people are already partaking of Christ's redemptive sacrifice in anticipation of that consummate feast yet to come. On the night Jesus was betrayed, He assembled His disciples around the Passover Table to fulfill that feast and begin transforming the shadow into reality. He stopped short of completing this transformation but He instructed His disciples to continue the inaugurated portion of the New Covenant meal in perpetuity until He comes again. Then He will finish that transformation in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Each time we come to His Table we are looking back at the cross and forward to the consummation of this meal in which He suspended fulfillment until He comes again. Though Jesus has ascended and is currently seated at the right hand of the Father, He continues to summons His people to God's Redemptive Table through the Gospel. These people regularly assemble at this Table to remember Christ's sacrificial death. When we do, Jesus is with us in a spiritual presence.
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Stan McGehee, Jr. is senior pastor of Living Word Community Church. Ordained in December of 1979, he holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary and a Masters of Theology from Tyndale Seminary. He has worked with his father at LWCC since the...