[SkyPilot]

The aspect of this parable that always perplexed me was: why did the King throw out the man who was invited to the feast, only to have him thrown out for not wearing the wedding clothes?

I mean, the guy was invited, and then they threw him out after binding him hand and foot. Seemed kind of harsh, no?

This commentary is pretty dead on in its answer: the utter uselessness of self-righteousness. The only covering for our sin is Jesus Christ. Nothing else will do, and all the legalism, machinations, and efforts in the world will not do us any good when it comes to salvation itself.

God's Word is full of fascinating parallels, foreshadowing, and woven threads. From the very beginning, Adam and Eve tried to clothe themselves, but it was God who had to provide them the animal skins (and thus blood had to be shed to kill the animals as a sacrifice).

In a Jewish wedding, you were given wedding clothes to wear, and to reject them and not wear them was the supreme insult to the host.

In Revelation, we see the saints wearing the white robes.

I pray you all have a wonderful Sunday. Glory be to Christ.

[iowamark]

The guy came to the wedding without a present?

[IrishBrigade]

‘(and thus blood had to be shed to kill the animals as a sacrifice).’

have you ever wondered why an omnipotent and eternal deity would require blood sacrifices, with its attendant terror and agony of the victims, to consecrate his compact with his people...?

[metmom]

In the parables of the wedding feast of the son, there is the talk about the invited guests and the virgins with their lamps.

Often I have heard these parables used to to compare the virgins and the invited guests to Christians.

The problem I have is that at the wedding feast, the Father holds the feast. The wedding is for the son. There must be a bride.

If the son is Jesus, the if the virgins and the guests are the church, just who is the bride?

In Scripture, the church is called *the Bride of Christ*, so in these parables, if the church age believers are the bride, then it’s OUR wedding.

I am not sure who the guests and the virgins are but it could not be us if the wedding is ours.

Thoughts?