So What About The Marriage Supper Of Revelation 19:6-10?

Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunder-peals, crying out,

"Hallelujah!"

For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.  Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready; to her it has been granted to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure"-- for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are true word of God."  Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your comrades" who hold the testimony of Jesus."  Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

In looking to verses 6-8 it seems as if it is talking in a way that the marriage of the Lamb has arrived and has begun.  But with this implication the vision stops.  It presents a lot and then simply stops.  The actual marriage celebration is not depicted.   

Then in verse 9 we need to first ask the question of where and when this marriage supper of the Lamb is to take place?

In verse 9 the word invited (i.e. kaleo) can also be translated as called.  What is interesting is that this verb is not in the future tense.  It rather is in what is called a perfect tense.  The perfect tense  thus communicates to us a present tense connotation; that an invitation went out in the past and the invitation/calling still exists to the present time of the writing of Revelation and for us.  It is an ongoing and open invitation started in the past and still exists to the present day.  Therefore in verse 9 I would say that this marriage supper is intended for us who are still on earth.  This beatitude is pronounced on and to us.  With that said I am more inclined to take this invitation as something that is happening in the here and now.  

So, what supper has been instituted in the past with an ongoing invitation into the present?  Also, this marriage supper is a supper that belongs to Jesus (i.e. supper of the Lamb)?  

What strike me in this verse is that the same word that John uses for the word supper is the same word that is used 1 Corinthians 11:20.  In 1 Corinthians 11:20 we see that Paul is referring to the Lord's Supper.

So, who is it that is invited and called?  I would simply say those that hear the invitation, those that respond to the calling, those that believe upon the Lamb of God.  The call is the call of the Gospel that makes us believers (Romans 10:17).  Thus as believers in the here and now we are blessed as we partake of Jesus' Lord Supper in the the here and now.  As believers we get to partake of the ultimate consummation and marriage that will happen at the second coming.  We will get to see the vision of verses 6-8 fulfilled with our own eyes!