We saw in yesterday’s blog how Rebekah accepted the invitation to go to Isaac, son of Abraham and become his wife. A huge step into the unknown, with people she’d never met, how courageous she was. It was no ordinary invitation, there was a Divine destiny attached to it. The Chief Servant, representing the Holy Spirit, wouldn’t even permit her own family to delay his return, the call was urgent.
In Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke 14:16-24, Jesus told the Parable of the Great Banquet, about another wedding feast (perhaps referring to His own wedding with the Church).
Luke’s account begins with a promise of a blessing from an unnamed person dining with Jesus in a Pharisee’s house.
Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God. Luke 14:15
All who attend this Heavenly feast will be blessed!
Jesus related the parable to all those present at the meal, it spoke exactly to their situation. A man was preparing a large banquet and invited many guests. At the ‘time’ of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those invited to come, as all was now ready. There’s a time for doing things and if we miss it, we may never get another opportunity (Rebekah had only one chance to go back with the Chief Servant to Isaac, no one else knew his whereabouts). ‘But they all alike began to make excuses’. It didn’t suit them, it wasn’t convenient at the moment (NB not one of their excuses was accepted). When the servant returned and told the master, he was angry and told the servant to go out into the public places and bring in whoever would come. The servant obeyed but was sent out again so that his master’s house would be full (God will have many people for His Feast) Luke’s account ends with the master’s final decision;
I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet. Luke 14:24
Matthew’s account though very similar has a couple of additional points.
‘But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, “How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?” The man was speechless.
‘Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
‘For many are invited, but few are chosen.’ Matthew 22:11-14
A man had come to the wedding dressed incorrectly. Revelation speaks of those in white robes Revelation 3:4, 7:13, 19:14. We need to be wearing righteous clothes and deeds now, to be welcomed into the Great Banquet.
The final line is a warning to us all, ‘Many are called, few are chosen’. Now is the day of salvation! 2 Corinthians 6:1, 2
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