People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God — the eschatological banquet's universal guest list (from all four directions of the earth) fulfills Isaiah 2:2-3, 25:6-8, and 49:12: the covenant community's feast becomes the gathering place of the nations. The spatial universalism of the kingdom's gathering stands against every assumption of ethnic or religious privilege.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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