“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
Romans 11:9 KJV
David sees how the very table of blessing has become a stumbling block to the Jews through their ignorance. The table of the Lord is the prophetic celebration of the sacrificed Lamb, where God Himself provides redemption according to the promise; yet therein they were trapped and snared and they stumbled because of their own unbelief. Now their only reward is the table they set for themselves. The whole ceremonial law they had lay in meats and drinks and such like things, which they sacrificed for justifying their righteousness before God, observing these rites and ceremonies, and imagining that by these sacrifices their sins were really expiated and atoned for. They neglected and submitted not to the righteousness of Christ but went about to establish their own, so that which should have led them to Christ became a handwriting of ordinances against them, and rendered Christ of no effect to them. Even the Old Testament prophecies which clearly pointed out Christ, are misapplied by them and proved a stumbling block to them. Let’s not rely in any way on justifying our own righteousness but totally depend on the reality of Jesus becoming sin for us that we might be the righteousness of God in Christ. Thank You Jesus!
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