Proverbs 9:1-6

Proverbs 9:1-6 Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; (2) She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also furnished her table. (3) She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city, (4) "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, (5) "Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. (6) Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.

The wisdom of God's Word, as the previous chapters have been discussing, is that which guides us daily in our walk with Him, assisting and making clear the path by which we must walk. That theme continues in this chapter. The house is completed (seven pillars), provisions are prepared, and messengers are sent out. Then Wisdom cries out to the simple and says come. What a lovely description of the familiar New Testament story of the marriage supper of the Lamb!

Once a Jewish man was engaged, he would go and build onto his father's house, preparing a place to house his new wife and soon to be family. When the place was complete (seven meaning complete) and provisions were complete, the father would tell the son and messengers would be sent out to tell of the coming of the Groom. So it is with Jesus and His bride, the church. He has gone to prepare a place and when it is complete, He will send out His messengers and the call will sound, the Trump of God and His bride will be gathered together with Him, forever to stay.
Jesus is the head of the body (the Church) and has gone away to prepare a place, that where He is, we may be.

John 14:2-3 "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (3) "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

Jesus taught a parable about a King who prepared a marriage (Matt. 22). Many were called but his invited guests disdained or ignored the invitation and killed the messengers. But then the King gathered, from the highways, all who would come. The Father has prepared a wedding supper and many were first called (the Jews) and rejected the messengers (the prophets), so the Lord gathered those on the highways (the gentiles - non-Jewish) and made them His guests.
As the Jewish man would prepare his new home, he would also prepare for the marriage feast, which the Bride and all the invited guests would attend. The marriage supper of the Lamb as Revelation calls it, is that final gathering of all those that believe in Jesus Christ.

Revelation 19:6-9 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! (7) "Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." (8) And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. (9) Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' " And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God."

Jesus tells another parable about ten virgins who were preparing for an upcoming wedding. Some were ready and some were not. Those that were ready were gathered to be with the Groom and those that were not had no way into the gathering. Then the Groom says, watch and be ready.

Matthew 25:11-13 "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' (12) "But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' (13) "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

May we be watching for the coming of the Groom today! As the Proverb says, "forsake foolishness and live, and go in the way of understanding." What great advice, to leave behind that which hinders us (Phil. 3:13), and live in the knowledge and understanding that our Savior is returning to gather us to Himself. The time is so very short.

Revelation 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!