The table is an important piece of furniture in the Bible. There is much written about the tables in the tabernacle and the temple. Elijah had a small room in Shunnem, but a table was one of the pieces of furniture mentioned. Psalm 23 declares to God, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies”, David assured Jonathan that there would always be a place at his table for Jonathan and his family, Jesus was at table with Pharisees, lepers, disciples, women, and tax collectors. Tables are a big deal.Isaiah the Prophet pointed to a table that was amazing. It is an eschatological table, a table that awaits us and is being prepared for us, but one at which we have yet to be seated. His promise was given to a people who were threatened with being overrun by one empire after another. It was to them that he pointed to Zion, the mountain of the Lord, and wrote these words found in Isaiah 25:6-8.
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
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