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!

1. Heaven is about God, his sovereignty over all things, and his being our God and we living as his people. In other words, we will be present with God!
2. In Revelation, God through John shows that the promises he made in Genesis, and throughout all of scripture, are coming true for his people! Most spectacularly, all the hurts that we have committed or have been committed against us will be redeemed, as well as all brokenness of every kind. These words are trustworthy and true.
3. Remembering who Jesus is and what he did for us empowers us, by his Spirit, to persevere on this earth. Participating in his suffering with faithfulness brings us into sweet fellowship with him, and he will walk us all the way home.
4. Isaiah 62:11–12 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.” And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

This week we asked this question about our destination: “Will heaven be our home? How do we get there? How can we know?” We began by going back to the Old Testament story of the bronze serpent being lifted up on a pole in order that whoever looked at the serpent would be cured. Jesus, like the bronze serpent, is our source of healing. He's the cure from the poison of sin and from the wrath of God. He was lifted up on the cross to die in our place and give us life. We look to Jesus and receive eternal life!

Women's Ministry welcomes guest speaker Pastor Sam Crabtree to introduce our study on Heaven.

Lydia Sandquist and Nora Byers from Monday night MOMS share how God has steadfastly loved and kept them as they have trusted steadfastly in him.

Heidi Brazis gives us some patterns of daily living that help toward loving and respecting our husbands and living with humility.