Revelation 19:9; The Marriage Supper of the Lamb (2)

Revelation 19:9 (KJV)  And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. 

Of what that supper shall consist we cannot yet know. The Scriptures speak of bread of heaven and angel’s food, and the Saviour tells of eating and drinking there. He Who supplied the wedding at Cana, and fed thousands in the wilderness, and furnished the little dinner to His worn disciples as they came up from the sea of toil to the shore trodden by His glorified feet, can be at no loss to make good of every word, and letter, and allusion which the Scriptures contain with reference to that high festival. The angels know something about it, and the angel told John that it will be a blessed thing to be there. “Write,” said the heavenly voice, “write, Blessed they who have been called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb.

Who, then, are the Guests? Chief of all who sit down to the marriage banquets on earth are the bridegroom and the bride. It is in honour of their union that the feast is held, and to them is assigned the most conspicuous place. This is a genuine marriage feast, the antitype of all the marriage feasts of time, and this particular feature cannot be wanting there. In the after chapters we are told that the Lamb is the light of the golden house in which it is held. He, therefore, is there in unveiled glory, the observed, the adored, the sublimest joy of all. And where he is there his bride is also, for they are united now, never to be separated any more. She there is all her perfected loveliness, “not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,” but “all glorious within,” and enfolded in her garments of needle-work, and gold, and in the faultless and radiant linen of the righteousness of the saints. There also are “virgins, her companions that follow her,” and make up her sublime and glorious train. And whosoever, in any age, in any land, of any language, of any tribe, has heard of the promised seed of the woman, and believed in Him, and listened to the calls and promises of God, and directed his heart and pilgrim steps for that blest city, shall likewise be there.

Whether as bride or guest, the whole Church of the first-born, from Adam down to the last martyr under the Antichrist, shall be there, radiant in that redemption for which they hoped and suffered.

Joseph A. Seiss, The Apocalypse – An Exposition of the Book of Revelation, Kregel, 1987, 431-432]