The Lord gives us rich food, and we must take a moment to consider how this can be. At first glance, it appears very plain—simple bread and red wine. How is this a banquet?
The Lord declared through the prophet Isaiah (25) that in the time of the new covenant, on the mountain of the Lord where we now are, He would set a glorious meal. It would be a feast of fat things, of wine racked in the cellar, of fat things full of marrow, of fine wine racked in the cellar. When the Lord brought us to this meal, what would be the result?
What will the result of a faithful commemoration of this meal be? It is an evangelical meal, and it is an evangelistic meal. The Lord will destroy (in this mountain) the covering that has been covering over all the nations. He will remove the veil that is over the face of the nations.
Our worship, our communing, our preaching, our singing, all of it is building to a crescendo, a crescendo where the Lord will finally and utterly destroy death. He will wipe away every tear, and so consider that He has well begun the process. You are communing at a meal where death is being eaten, death is being swallowed. Look—body and blood. At the same time, this does not mean that death is triumphant—just the reverse. Life is doing the swallowing.
This is a meal where every tear should be dried. Why? Because the Lord our God has spoken it. Come, celebrate the death of death, and the life of all nations.