Mishteh A Feast that brings Judgment or Salvation

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Mishteh A Feast that brings Judgment or Salvation
Presented by Bob DeWaay November 1, 2008
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Mishteh 19 times in Esther

• Esther 514, 710
• Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to
  him Haman, Have a gallows fifty cubits high
  made and in the morning ask the king to have
  Mordecai hanged on it, then go joyfully with the
  king to the banquet. And the advice pleased
  Haman, so he had the gallows made. . . . So they
  hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared
  for Mordecai, and the king's anger subsided.

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Mishteh A feast or banquet often associated with
a special occasion

• Used 44 times in the OT
• When a mishteh is held, some are saved/blessed
  and others killed/judged
• The state of the person attending a mishteh
  determines the outcome for him
• The same idea is found in the New Testament with
  deipnon or gamos

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The first mishteh in the Bible is at Sodom

• Genesis 193, 4
• Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside
  to him and entered his house and he prepared a
  feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and
  they ate. Before they lay down, the men of the
  city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house,
  both young and old, all the people from every
  quarter

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Mishteh Ishmael and Isaac divided

• Genesis 218 - 10
• And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham
  made a great feast on the day that Isaac was
  weaned. Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the
  Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
  Therefore she said to Abraham, Drive out this
  maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall
  not be an heir with my son Isaac.

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Mishteh One exalted the other killed

• Genesis 4020 - 22
• Thus it came about on the third day, which was
  Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all
  his servants and he lifted up the head of the
  chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker
  among his servants. And he restored the chief
  cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into
  Pharaoh's hand but he hanged the chief baker,
  just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

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Wicked Nabal holds a mishteh

• 1Samuel 2536
• Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was
  holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a
  king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for
  he was very drunk so she did not tell him
  anything at all until the morning light.

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Nabal is judged and Abigail blessed

• 1Samuel 2538, 42
• About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and
  he died.
• Then Abigail quickly arose, and rode on a
  donkey, with her five maidens who attended her
  and she followed the messengers of David and
  became his wife.

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David shares a mishteh with Abner and He is
subsequently killed by Joab

• 2Samuel 320, 30
• Then Abner and twenty men with him came to David
  at Hebron. And David made a feast for Abner and
  the men who were with him.
• So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner
  because he had put their brother Asahel to death
  in the battle at Gibeon.

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Israels mishteh but coming judgment

• Isaiah 512, 13
• Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp,
  by tambourine and flute, and by wine But they do
  not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord, Nor
  do they consider the work of His hands. Therefore
  My people go into exile for their lack of
  knowledge And their honorable men are famished,
  And their multitude is parched with thirst.

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The wedding feast Matthew 222-14

• Matthew 222, 9
• The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
  who gave a wedding feast for his son.
• verses 3-8 The invited guests refuse to come
  and are judged
• Go therefore to the main highways, and as many
  as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.

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Improperly clothed for the feast

• Matthew 2211, 12
• But when the king came in to look over the
  dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not
  dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him,
  Friend, how did you come in here without wedding
  clothes? And the man was speechless.

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The unprepared are judged while the prepared
enjoy the wedding feast

• Matthew 2213, 14
• Then the king said to the servants, Bind him
  hand and foot, and throw him into the outer
  darkness in that place there will be weeping and
  gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few
  are chosen.

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The last supper blessing and betrayal

• John 132
• During supper, the devil having already put into
  the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to
  betray Him,

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The Lords Supper as a mishteh

• 1Corinthians 103 - 5
• and all ate the same spiritual food and all
  drank the same spiritual drink, for they were
  drinking from a spiritual rock which followed
  them and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with
  most of them God was not well-pleased for they
  were laid low in the wilderness.

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The Lords Supper as a mishteh

• 1Corinthians 1020, 21
• No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles
  sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to
  God and I do not want you to become sharers in
  demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and
  the cup of demons you cannot partake of the
  table of the Lord and the table of demons.

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The Lords Supper as a mishteh

• 1Corinthians 1117 - 19
• But in giving this instruction, I do not praise
  you, because you come together not for the better
  but for the worse. For, in the first place, when
  you come together as a church, I hear that
  divisions exist among you and in part I believe
  it. For there must also be factions among you, so
  that those who are approved may become evident
  among you.

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Coming to the Lords Supper improperly

• 1Corinthians 1120 - 22
• Therefore when you meet together, it is not to
  eat the Lord's Supper, for in your eating each
  one takes his own supper first and one is hungry
  and another is drunk. What! Do you not have
  houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you
  despise the church of God and shame those who
  have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I
  praise you? In this I will not praise you.

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We should examine dokimazo to determine if we
are the approved dokimos (v 19)

• 1Corinthians 1127, 28
• Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the
  cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be
  guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But
  a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is
  to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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The Lords Supper gives us a chance to repent
before the final eschatological mishteh

• 1Corinthians 1129 - 33
• For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks
  judgment to himself if he does not judge the body
  rightly. For this reason many among you are weak
  and sick, and a number sleep. But if we judged
  ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. But
  when we are judged, we are disciplined by the
  Lord so that we will not be condemned along with
  the world.

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Those properly clothed participate in the
eschatological mishteh

• Revelation 197, 8
• Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory
  to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and
  His bride has made herself ready. It was given
  to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright
  and clean for the fine linen is the righteous
  acts of the saints.

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Those properly clothed participate in the
eschatological mishteh

• Revelation 199
• Then he said to me, Write, 'Blessed are those
  who are invited to the marriage supper of the
  Lamb. And he said to me, These are true words
  of God.

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Those improperly clothed become a meal

• Revelation 1917, 18
• Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he
  cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the
  birds which fly in midheaven, Come, assemble for
  the great supper of God, so that you may eat the
  flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and
  the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses
  and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all
  men, both free men and slaves, and small and
  great.

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Either the marriage banquet in heaven or become a
banquet for the birds

• Revelation 1921
• And the rest were killed with the sword which
  came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse,
  and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

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