Ask your pastor or Sunday School trainer how many wedding parables there are in the Bible.
Most know about the 10 virgins in Matthew 25; some may know about the wedding garment in Matthew 22, but none that I've asked know about Luke 12:32-48--"wedding" is mentioned once.
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1. All three parables reserve the need to invite others and have light to show the way.
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A. The King who makes a marriage for His Son sends His servants to bid every person ("bad and good," Matt 22:10) to the marriage.
B. The wise have light to show the way. The foolish do not and go seeing for oil, Matt 25:9. (They lack oil from the Old Testament olive tree, Zechariah 4:3,14. Christians focus on N.T.
C. "Lights burning" is parallel imagery in Luke 12:35.
2. All three parables have imagery supporting an unexpected calamity.
A. In Matt 22:7, the "remnant" had their city burned for failing to appreciate the invitation. It's more than 70 Ad, because Christ blended the temple signs with "end of the world"Matt 24:3.
B. Christ is the word (John 1:1,14) and He is also "the First and the Last," Revelation 1:11. The first place that a word or phrase is found often has a meaning or context for the end-time. Using this rule, the midnight cry in Matt 25:6 is associated to calamity at Passover, Exodus 12:29,30.
C. We are to be ready "that when He comes and knocks, [we] may open to Him immediately." Luke 12:36. What's His "knock"? With the Bible as it's own expositor, the only other place that Christ knocks is in Revelation 3:20, for the church of Laodicea. We think Jesus all the time knocks at our heart, wanting to be part of all we do. We forget He wanted that church to repent of their materialism and lukewarmness; it ended in an earthquake. Type and antitype? The Hebrew word for "knock," daphaq, includes a severe meaning as in Judges 19:22 where men were beating the door open. Is this the end-time meaning--"to him that knocks, it shall be opened," Matthew 7:8?
3. All three parables reserve high reward, but a loss in destiny for church leaders.
A. We see this in 70 Ad when the temple burned, but Christ mingled those signs as also being for the end of the world in Matthew 24:1-3. Would God do such a thing for America that tries to bless the world? Maybe we are like that lukewarm materialistic church. We forget our diminutive of the wedding invitation. We think about the 2nd coming when we hope to eat the wedding supper, but we are ignorant of Bible teaching on how the wedding occurs (explained below).
B. Turn in leadership is also suggested in the imagery of "Go to them that sell [oil]." Matt 25:9. The ministry studies Scripture and distills it as oil for the church. Earning their living doing so, they are "them that sell," but in Christ's parable, they weren't going to the wedding, and those who ask them for their input will arrive too late. This is not a good photograph for preachers.
C. Luke's wedding parable has four groups beginning in Luke 12:43,44--
1. The "little flock" that is "so doing when He comes" are made "ruler over all that He has"
2. The evil servant who thinks delay and smites fellow servants is lost as unbelievers, Luke 12:45,46. This is New World Order forcing compliance by marking everyone, Revelation 13:17.
3. The ministry "that knew his Lord's will and ready not"...shall be beaten with many stripes, Luke 12:47.
4. Church members they did not post "that knew not...shall be beaten with few stripes."
Confirmation: The aggelos (messenger or preacher to the lukewarm church of Laodicea) is "naked." Naked means he is not wearing a wedding garment and will be thrown out, Matthew 22:11-13. These are parallel passages--Luke's wedding parable has six parallels with the message to Laodicea, so this is all about the wedding. We correlate Scripture as in Isaiah 28:10.
Our actions pick the group we want to be in:
"By faith Noah...by faith Moses..." None of them knew except they had the word of God, and He "will not do anyone [except] He reveals His secret..." Amos 3:7. We must be like Bereans who studied to see if Scripture supports it. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin," Romans 14:23.
The King's servants bid to the marriage and have light to show the way. If we aren't challenging others and don't have light to show how we can marry the Bridegroom, we're not included
So how do we marry the Bridegroom?
When Christ said, "Search the Scriptures...they testify of Me," the only Scriptures in existence were the Old Testament. There we see God challenging to Israel to turn to Him, "I am married to you," Jeremiah 3:14. When did they get married?
God took Israel from calamity in Egypt to a compact association at Sinai. "All those things happened unto them for examples [types, margin] and they are written for...ends of the world" 1Corinthians 10:1,11. We are headed for calamity, as we saw above.
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