Will We Eat Heavenly Food?
Q: Will there be food in heaven or will we eat at all? A friend thinks that there will be food if we choose to eat? What are your thoughts? Please give me the Scripture reference.
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Certainly, good times with God are often defined by eating and drinking. Notice in Genesis 1:29 how specific God was with Adam as to what could be eaten. When Noah left the Ark, the Lord expanded the “menu” for mankind, giving meat as well as vegetation for food (see Genesis 9:1-4).
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At the right time, Jesus took this meal and expanded its scope while increasing its content. In the upper room, just hours before His betrayal, Christ brought His own body and blood into communion with the Passover’s bread and wine (see 1 Corinthians 11:23-25). No longer would the Passover only look back to Moses’ time. Instead, Jesus made it point especially to His own suffering and death.
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Eating and drinking often helped to seal a covenant. Enemies would not break bread with each other, so if one person dined with another, they became morally bound to do each other no harm. When the elders of Israel went up on Sinai with Moses (Exodus 24:9-11), not only did they eat and drink in the Lord’s presence but the Lord protected them from His own holiness and “he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel.”
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As the Scriptures close, Revelation mentions both good and bad eating and drinking. While sinners participate in the drunken feasting of the Great Prostitute or eat food sacrificed to idols, the righteous are invited to remain faithful so as to eat of the tree of life “in the paradise of God. (2:7)” The various pictures of the marriage feast, including those in Matthew 22:1-14 and Revelation 19:6-10 also indicate the possibility of eternal banqueting. While this “feast” may be figurative, speaking of a great festival or celebration, we can’t discount the possibility that God intends for us to actually eat and drink, just as our first parents did even before the Fall.
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Scripture quoted from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version™, © 2001 by Crossway Bibles.
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Walter Snyder is the pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Emma, Missouri and coauthor of the book What Do Lutherans Believe.
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