A House Of Feast
A HOUSE OF FEAST
In chapter eleven the Lord raised Lazarus from the dead. That resurrection issued into the church life. We all were dead persons. After He resur rected us, we became the church. Thus, in chap ter eleven, we see Lazarus resurrected and in chapter twelve we see that the resurrected person becomes the very place where the Lord can find rest and satisfaction. This is the church. Now we need to consider the church as the house of feast.
OUTSIDE OF RELIGION
This house of feast is outside of religion. It was not in Jerusalem, the holy city, or in the holy temple. It was in a little house in Bethany, out side of Jerusalem and outside of religion.
The Lord being life to people to meet all of their needs brought about His rejection by the Jewish religion. Judaism could not tolerate seeing the Lord being life to so many kinds of people. So the religious ones rejected the Lord as life. This rejection began in chapter five (vv. 16, 18) and reached its climax in chapter ten (vv. 31, 39). In chapter eleven, the Jewish religionists even held a council on how to put the Lord to death because He had raised Lazarus from the dead (11:53, 57).