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New eBook: The Glorious Feast of the Gospel (Richard Sibbes)

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Introducing a digital edition of The Glorious Feast of the Gospel, a series of sermons on Isaiah 25:6-9, by Richard Sibbes. Originally published in 1650, this collection reads comfortably for both devotional and study purposes. The writer petitions all believers, in their need of encouragement, to a renewed communion with God. Sibbes herein awakens the senses of the reader to the rich truths and promises presented in Jesus Christ.

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  1. Greetings of peace my fellow friends,
    Interested in what Richard Sibbles’ erudite expository might be on the interpretative meaning of Isaiah 25:6-9 … I decided to post my own in the meantime until I read his, since the space below stated “wow, its quiet here.” So let’s fill the space with some truth.

    Isaiah, a great prophet of vision, shared his wisdom with Israel for the love of God and for what he received for that Love. Although the entire chapter of Isaiah 25 addresses the issue of human illumination spurred by the human desire to understand what it had been faced with or the needless path of suffering, destruction, and death confronting mankind, Isaiah directs those who would listen to his inspiration to rise to greater heights of wisdom and reality which he represented to them with the accomplishment of ascending the ‘Mountain of God,’ sometimes referred to as Mount Zion and noted many other times as the place of experiencing the Presence of God. Thus if we singularly begin with the objective of that chapter’s central point, which by the way carries over for a few more chapters, we find that the central point stated in verses 6-9 reveals and addresses the Almighty Presence of God dwelling there in the ‘Mount’ the place of our ‘ascension;’ the place of the Almighty Presence of God which is the Great ‘I AM’ unrenowned to those who have not ascended up. His description and use of the allegoric terms “in this mountain” represents the same allegorical meaning as the ‘temple’ in which God dwells as noted in 1 Corinthians 3:16 “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in You?” However this concept of the inner temple was not yet fully developed in the Old Testament and so the same temple of God’s dwelling was represented as the high place of the ‘mountain of God.’
    Nonetheless, the seeker of God upon accomplishing this ‘ascension’ or ‘climb’ as Isaiah explains will find that it would reveal the illusion that the world had constructed for man at that time. In that upon his true illumination with eyes wide open he and all of mankind would see the dismantling illusion of what the city of ‘Moab’ ( v.25:10) represented, as it would be trodden down as straw and waste.
    Thus the people in his day were living in an illusionary misconception of the Truth and sought deliverance in the worldly things whose ‘walls’ or matter would eventually be destroyed. Yet in contrast, Isaiah also compares the real truth to seeking the true victory of life “ He will swallow up death in victory”( V.25:8)compared to 1 Corinthians 15:55-58, which Isaiah depicts as the path of immortality verse 25:7.
    Thus Isaiah describes one’s discovery of this truth on the mountain to that of a “feast of fat,” a celebration which one can feed on… marked by the plentiful wisdom found in discovering our own immortality even if initially as the truth we must fulfill. Thus Isaiah was enticing the people to see the truth of life which will dissolve the petty noise of strangers who collectively seek the fruits of ‘Moab’ and in turn are uselessly building a city which will promise nothing in the future except a “heap” of a dunghill ( v.25:2,10).

    Although that is the gist of Isaiah chapter 25, the details of this address and the pros and cons continue for a few more chapters and are worth reading.
    Now I wonder if my interpretation matches anything presented by Richard Sibbles?

    I hope I have filled in this quiet space with some intrigue of truth; I pass the torch to the next person. Thanks
    MJ.