The Lord’s Supper – Robert Balmer
Blessed are they who are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:9). This declaration will probably suggest to you a scene more magnificent and blissful than any that will ever be realised on earth. It will not unnaturally lead your thoughts upward to heaven, and forward to that glorious era when the redemption of the church will be consummated, and when all her members, being collected into one harmonious and happy society, shall be admitted by the Captain of their salvation to eat and drink with him in his Father’s heavenly kingdom. To these events the figures in the text itself are elsewhere applied; for Jesus Christ is often represented as the husband, and the church as his bride and his spouse; and, in allusion to a nuptial solemnity and a marriage supper, it is said that, having ‘sanctified and cleansed her’, he will at the last ‘present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and without blemish.’ But, howeve...