Jesus taught truths using parables, so I think I can base a
blog post on a dream I had. This dream
was very vivid. I don’t usually remember
my dreams, so I thought this dream must have some sort of meaning.
The dream started out with Mike (my husband) and I going to
a friend’s house. When we got there, our
friends were sitting at the kitchen table, reading the paper, cooking food,
etc. I urged them to hurry up and get
ready or they would be late to the wedding supper, or miss it altogether. But the wife said, “Go on, we’ll see you
there.”
So Mike and I went to the reception hall. There were round tables with water goblets
and china place settings. There were tall
place card holders in the center of the tables with square place cards in them.
These place cards had a letter and a number (like L30). But for some strange reason, we couldn't find
the table where we were supposed to sit.
We went to the maître d’ and asked him to help us find our
seats. He took us to a large, wooden
oval shaped table. It had black edging
all the way around it. There were no
place settings and people were crowded around the table. Pat Neshek of the St. Louis Cardinals
baseball team was seated at the oval table and he was showing off his baseball
card collection, although what this had to do with the rest of the dream, I
don’t know. I turned to Mike and said,
“See, I told you that we should have sent our reservation in earlier!”
I was puzzled as to what the dream meant. I was pondering the dream during worship in
church that Sunday and it came to me that the dream represented the wedding
supper of the Lamb and His bride, the church.
My friends in the first part of the dream thought they had plenty
of time to get to the wedding supper, i.e., repent of their sins and receive
Christ as their Savior. But only God
knows when your last day on Earth will be.
It could be tomorrow, or in the very next minute. Also, the Rapture is
imminent – no other prophecies have to come true before the Rapture can occur.
Mike and I went to the reception hall, so it appears we had
received Christ. But we were not seated
at the round tables with the rest of the guests. Perhaps we were carnal Christians and had not
grown enough in our faith? The reason
why we were at the oval table was not made clear to me. We were not cast out of the reception hall;
we were just seated in a different location.
Those who reject Christ will be tossed out into the darkness, where there
will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 8:12)
When you are invited to a wedding, there is usually a
card enclosed with the invitation for you to mail back to the bride (the RSVP
card) to let her know how many people in your family will be attending the
wedding. The bride will then total up
the number of guests who have indicated on the RSVP cards that they will be
attending the wedding. She will then advise
the caterer of the total number of attendees so that the caterer can prepare enough
food.
RSVP is an acronym for the French phrase “Répondez s'il vous plaît,” which translates in English to “respond
if it pleases you.” You have a choice
whether or not to attend a wedding. You also have a choice whether or not to repent
of your sins and accept Christ as your Savior.
In order to attend the wedding supper of Christ (Rev. 19:9), you have to turn in
your RSVP card, which means repenting of your sins and receiving Christ as your
Savior. You can respond to Jesus' invitation to trust Him for your salvation and to believe in Him if you please, or not. It's up to you. Jesus has extended the invitation to all who would repent of their sins and receive Him as their Savior (1 Tim. 2:3-4). I know that I have accepted Jesus' invitation and have put my trust in Him for salvation.
So if you’re reading this and have not accepted Jesus’
invitation to the wedding feast, why haven’t you? Time is short. I would love to be able to hang out with you at the wedding feast. If you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and wish for Him to come into your heart and clean it up and make you a new person on the inside, all you have to do is repent for your sins (or confess that you have sinned). This is called "being born again" or "saved." Here is a simple prayer that you can pray:
"Lord, I know I am a sinner, and I need Your forgiveness for my sins. I believe that You died for me on the Cross. Please come into my heart and make me new. I want you to be my Lord and Savior. I give my life totally and completely to You. Thank you for forgiving my sins and making me new."
That's all for now! Thanks for reading! See you next time!
Diane
