And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God: Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my
sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, _even_ a great sacrifice upon
the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye
shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks,
all of them fatlings of Bashan. And ye shall eat fat till ye be
full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice, which I
have sacrificed for you. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with
horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith
the Lord God (verses 17-20).
In view of the great slaughter executed upon Gog and his vast army, the
feathered fowl and every beast of the field are summoned to attend the
sacrifice which Jehovah has prepared for them upon the mountains of
Israel. They are to eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of
the princes of the earth, which are compared to rams, lambs, goats,
bullocks and the fatlings of Bashan. He promised these fowls and the
beasts of the earth a feast, which will completely satisfy them. The
table which is spread for them is His table: "Thus shall ye be filled at
my table."
Rev. xix:17, 18 contains a similar scene. It is the great supper of God,
which the angel standing in the sun announces, and to which he invites
the fowls in the midst of heaven. The great supper in Revelation and
Jehovah's sacrifice in Ezekiel are not the same. The great supper of
God, that awful judgment supper, is in connection with the beastly
empire (the Western Confederacy)--the kings and armies of apostate
Christendom. And probably for this reason the fowls in the midst of
heaven are only mentioned, because Christendom apostatized from the
heavenly testimony of Christianity. These kings and their armies refused
and rejected completely the invitation of the Lord to the Gospel-supper
and now they will fall in the hands of God and receive their reward at
the judgment supper. When Gog falls upon the mountains of Israel, the
great supper of God announced in Rev. xix has already been executed.