The Parable of the Wedding Feast
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Matthew 22:2-3
The King is God
The Son is Jesus
The bidden is the J*ws
When the bidden didn’t answer the call to the wedding, they were otherwise occupied with their businesses in the city or their farms in the country. This is what happened when they rejected the invitation:
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. Matthew 22:6-7
According to the Matthew Henry Commentary, God executed this punishment forty years after the death and resurrection of Jesus. God used the Roman army to destroy Jerusalem. The armies belong to God, and He will use them as He sees fit.
“His armies destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city… This points out very plainly the destruction of the J*ws, and the burning of Jerusalem, by the Romans, forty years after this. No age ever saw a greater desolation than that, nor more of the direful effects of fire and sword.” Matthew Henry
To continue the parable:
Since they rejected the offer of the wedding feast, the servants were sent out into the streets to call others who were willing to come, namely, Gentiles. However, even some Gentiles tried to come to the feast without proper dress, whose hearts were not bent towards the king, and he bound them and sent them away into darkness. In this parable, he was referring to the hypocrites who come to church but never soften their hearts toward Jesus. It is imperative that you turnyour heart toward Jesus and cultivate a solid relationship with him; you don’t want to be cast into darkness because you were more concerned with your physical being than the condition of your heart and your relationship with Jesus.
For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:14
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