Church Signs

On a church near where I live, someone had put on the marquee:


Heaven doesn't have walls, it has a table.


I'm guessing they were trying to make a pithy political point. Too bad they didn't have a Bible in their church.


Whatever your thoughts about walls between nations, Revelation 21 is very clear that heaven will have walls. And I honestly don't really know why because we're also told that those walls will have twelve gates that don't close. I'm sure this is imagery that will be more clear once we're there, but for now, the Scripture is very adamant that heaven has walls.


And there's no clear indication that heaven will have a table. There is eating that goes on in heaven (praise God!) in Revelation 22, but no mention of a table. Jesus also told the disciples at the last supper that he wouldn't eat of that meal again until he ate it with them in heaven, but still there's no mention of whether a table will be involved. Maybe we can infer one ... or maybe we'll just sit out on fields of heaven the way they did when Jesus fed the five thousand.


It's just a church marquee, and maybe it's handled by someone in the church who doesn't have a rudimentary grasp of Scripture while the rest of the people are Bible-strong, but what does it say about a congregation when they use a publicly visible venue to declare something that's exactly opposite of Scripture?