Come To The Feast!!!
Those Who Will Dine In The Royal Courts of Heaven With the King of Kings!!
Those Who Will Eat Fattened Calves With the Maker of Heaven and Earth!!
But when the attendants delivered the king’s command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Esther 1: 12
In the beginning of the book of Esther, we see that a King has requested his Queen to come to a feast with Him.
But refuses to come to the feast.
She is then deposed and the King chooses another Queen.
I have personally seen women be very upset about this book of the Bible
So, I seek to define and show the truth of what God is revealing to us.
That this scripture should uplift and bring healing.
You see, Jesus is this King.
And Vashti is the people of Israel.
When Jesus came to earth and presented Himself as God, the Messiah, our Savior, with healings, with abundant provision, with miraculously appearing food, with bringing people back from the dead, and speaking wisdom and truth that revealed God’s character and His only pathway to Him, He was rejected.
God allowed this real-life example in this Kingdom, that we would all know the hurt that it caused Jesus to be rejected this way.
That God, Jesus, wanted to show the world the love He had for His beautiful queen, Israel.
But she was not willing.
Then we see that Jesus, this King, opens up a world-wide search for a bride who will then receive Him.
A bride to be His queen that wants Him, loves Him, and obeys Him and His ways.
Esther is found and put in the running.
She humbly obeys wise advice from the Eunuch, The Holy Spirit.
And He leads her to be chosen by the King.
For we are all Esther now.
For Jesus the King has been seeking His bride since He came out of the tomb.
He sent His Holy Spirit across the world that those who hear and obey the truth from Him, become Jesus’s beloved, a queen, a royal in the Forever Kingdom of God.
The obedience to simply believe that Jesus is the Savior, the Lord, the only way to eternal life.
The obedience to come to Him when He is calling us in this life, to be saved.
The obedience to come to the wedding feast and dine with Him in His Kingdom.
Now this does not discount all the Jewish people, from entering as Esther’s today.
They are still part of the bride of Christ.
For God offers Jesus and His salvation to all people, every nation, every tribe, every culture.
And since Esther is actually Jewish in this story, it speaks of a second generation timeline where another generation will be offered King Jesus.
And they will hear the call and obey and come to the feast in the Kingdom of God, through Jesus.
That they will actually be the ones asking to come to this feast with Jesus, like Esther does.
Not waiting to be invited by the King.
In that season, Esther makes petition for herself to be saved and her people to be saved too.
And the King grants it.
Meaning that in the end season, when the Jews seek out Jesus, asking to come into the Kingdom of God, God will grant this request for all of them, as the King does in this story.
May we know that we know that we know Jesus is seeking all people who would choose to receive Him as Lord and Savior-men and women-in this season we call the church age, offering eternal marriage, unity, becoming one with God, being made royal in the Kingdom of Heaven forever.
May we know that we know that we know we all have this choice to make today, being offered this gift of eternal life to be forever bound up with the Only God, the God of the Universe, our Maker, our Provider, our Father, our Savior, being called into and getting to attend the feast of all feasts, the wedding feast of God, where we all celebrate our unity with the One True God and live as His intimately loved ones, in Heaven like Esther.
May we know that we know that we know God has not given up on the Jewish people and they, like Esther foretells, will be saved, their whole people group, entering into the Kingdom of Heaven seeking protection through Jesus Christ, during this next opportunity of offering, a season of persecution, the season of tribulation.
love kathlynn
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