Posted on 04/09/2022 12:37:44 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table” (Proverbs 9:2 KJV).
“She hath mingled her wine.” Christ is the personification of wisdom, the love of Christ is compared to wine, “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine” (Son 1:2 KJV). “For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping” (Psa 102:9 KJV). The Lord Jesus Christ shed many tears for us, let alone shedding His Blood to purchase our salvation. The new wine is a picture of that Blood—not fermented, but pure fruit of the vine.
The picture is all about Jesus Christ preparing something good and wonderful for His guest.
“She hath also furnished her table,” She is getting ready for something. She has prepared her meat.
“And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son [God the Father prepared a banquet for His Son], And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner [Just as we read in our passage in Proverbs]: my oxen and my fatlings are killed [There are your beasts], and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage” (Mat 22:1-9 KJV).
The picture here is, the first guests that God invited to His prepared feast was the nation of Israel, but they rejected His invitation. Based upon their rejection, He decided to go to the Gentiles for a couple thousand years. So His servants have been out in the highways and the by-ways preparing a Bride for His Son.
“So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen” (Mat 22:10-14 KJV).
There appears to be a very strong connection between Proverbs 9 and Matthew 22.
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