Leave your own Feast and Go to the Feast of the Lord

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Esther 1:19 “If it pleases the king, let a royal edict be issued by him and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti may no longer come into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and let the king give her royal position to another who is more worthy than she.”

Queen Vashti was vanished in the kingdom of king Ahasuerus because of her refusal to go to the kings’ feast and by having her own feast. She is stripped of her position as queen and she she is refused entry into the king’s presence.

In the same manner, this great feast reminds us of another feast that the Lord has prepared for us TODAY. As King Ahasuerus invited all to come to his feast, with no other conditions but to come, so our Lord Jesus wants us to come to His feast offered before us today without money and without price with all the spiritual riches of His grace. In Queen Vashti, we see a type of refusal of the invitation. She had been invited to come and grace the feast with her presence but she would not come. It reminds us of the parable of our Lord, in which He speaks of the great supper, a symbol of the feast of the Word, and the bidden guests who made excuses for not coming. She had her own feast, which she probably would not leave. How many of us refuse the invitation of the Lord to go to His feast because we have our own feast? And Vashti is banished. She is put away. And this is also the fate of those who refuse to go to the feast of the Lord today because they have their own businesses.