Saturday, February 12

The bride at the banquet

All other institutions serve good and honorable purposes at present, but they await termination at the day of Christ’s return. The church, in contrast, awaits Christ’s return as a day of consummation, when as the bride of Christ she will take her place at the wedding banquet of the Lamb (Eph. 5:22–32; Rev. 19:9–10).

— David VanDrunen
Living in God's Two Kingdoms
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2010), 131