The marriage supper of the lamb is a biblical picture of the joy-filled fellowship which awaits God’s people. In Revelation 19:6–9, we get a vision of a rejoicing heavenly multitude and the four reasons they overflow with praise to God on that occasion.

1. The Almighty God reigns! He has conquered every enemy. (1 Corinthians 15:54–57)

2. The marriage of the lamb, a glorious groom, is finally here! He loved us so much he paid for our sins. (John 1:29)

3. Christ’s Bride is ready! She has been given a beautiful garment of righteous deeds. (Ephesians 5:25–27)

4. The celebrants enter into an eternity of satisfaction and joy. (Psalm 16:11) The certainty of this feast is a great comfort! I have prayed that it will make us more excited about our union with Christ and encourage us toward greater faithfulness while we wait for Jesus to collect his Bride.

Pure Delight!

In heaven, our capacity to behold and receive God’s glory will be different. When we experience God’s glory, our own will pale in comparison. Self will seem microscopic and insignificant in light of God’s glory, not because people do not matter, but because we will see the God whose image we bear. Worship will be unfiltered as faith becomes sight, and our capacity to take in God’s glory will be unhindered by sin because it will be utterly eliminated in light of the presence of our perfect God and Father and the God-man, Jesus. Our experience of the Spirit will be unquenched, and we will live with one another in perfect harmony.

In John 14:1–3 Jesus speaks of leaving his disciples to prepare the way for them, and they are troubled. He responds by calling them to believe in him and to believe in God.

As he calls them to believe, he is also calling them to relationship with himself. He calls them to replace their troubled hearts with hearts of faith. He promises he is going to prepare a place for them. He will take them to dwell with himself!