They talked of His decease which He was to accomplish: three precious and important words. They tell us of the intimacy, the personal intimacy, that there is between the Lord and the elect in the realms of glory. As it was in the Garden of Eden at the beginning, and then among the patriarchs, and then with the disciples and their divine Master, so will it be in the ages of glory. There will be personal intimacy between the Lord and His people, as signified by the word talk.

But we have also the subject of their conversation; it was His decease—a theme most worthy to engage the glorified hosts. We may well speak of it on every Lord’s Day in the light of the resurrection, since the ransomed in the heavens speak of it in the light of the glory. For that great fact or mystery will be celebrated forever, as it is the great fact that is to prove itself the pillars of eternity, the pillars of the creation of God.

And again, they will let us learn a very weighty matter connected with this subject—it was a decease that was to be accomplished—a word which suggests the full, finished, perfected character of the way in which that great mystery, the death of the Lamb of God at Jerusalem, was to be conducted. All due solemnity was to mark it, that nothing might be left unaffected, unproduced, or unsecured, which it was purposed to do.

And what a comfort to us sinners! The sacrifice of the Lamb of God was the precious eternal secret that was to give us blessed eternal peace.