The Feast on the Mountain

Part 6 of 6 in The Feasts of the Lord

Parte 6 de 6 de la serie The Feasts of the Lord

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Brian Hunter · November 9, 2025

Scripture Referenced

Recap

Continuing a study through Exodus, Brian brought the room to chapter 24, where Moses and seventy elders of Israel climb Mount Sinai and are given an extraordinary encounter: they see the God of Israel, with something like a pavement of brilliant blue lapis lazuli under his feet, and instead of being destroyed for gazing on him, they share a covenant meal in his presence. Brian invited the church to use sanctified imagination to sit inside that scene rather than rush past it as a strange ancient detail.

He then connected the mountaintop meal directly to Psalm 23:5 (“you prepare a table before me… my cup overflows with blessings”) pointing out the phrase most people skip over: this feast happens “in the presence of my enemies.” Life at the base of the mountain, Brian noted, was comfortable and familiar for the elders. The invitation to climb higher meant leaving that comfort behind for something harder before the feast and the blessing arrived. Everyone wants the anointing, the overflowing cup, and the stories of encountering God’s presence, Brian said, but far fewer are willing to endure the difficult climb, and the real opposition, that gets you there.

Brian tied the challenge to spiritual maturity: God loves people exactly where they are, but his desire is for them to grow rather than stay in a posture that only wants blessing handed over without the climb. Maturity, he argued, means being willing to pursue the difficult mountain, not just the feast waiting at the top.

Touch Points

1. The seventy elders left comfort and familiarity to climb the mountain. What comfortable “base camp” might God be inviting you to leave right now?
2. Psalm 23:5 says the feast is prepared “in the presence of my enemies.” How does that change how you think about hardship that shows up right before a breakthrough?
3. Brian said most people want the blessing without the climb. Where have you wanted the outcome of maturity without the process that produces it?
4. What would it look like this week to lean into a hard “climb” instead of avoiding it?

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