"An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it."
{Exodus 12:48} (NIV 1984)
A person living among the people of Israel, enjoying their life among God's people, might want to join with them in the Feast that celebrates God passing over them as He struck down the firstborn of the Eygptians. If they want to, then they must receive the seal/sign of joining into the pormise of God before they will be allowed to celebrate by eating.
So it is in churches of The Lord Jesus Christ. He invites us to eat a meal together in His Presence, celebrating His death and atonement for us. We participate in many different traditions, but we recognize that participation in the Lord's communion requires a person to have first received the Holy Spirit; the seal/sighn that we have joined into the promise of God.
And so it is also with the wedding feast of the Lamb. If you want, only if you want, to join in the wedding supper of the Lamb in the life to come, then you must receive the Holy Spirit; the seal/sign that you have joined into the promise of God. Eating a cracker/bread and drinking juice/wine in this life, despite the vain blessing of men, will not give you entrance into the wedding supper of the Lamb.
O friend, do you have the Holy Spirit within you? Look for Him this day. Ask Him to show Himself to you, and He will testify to your spirit if you are a child of God (Romans 8:16).
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