{"id":12529,"date":"2021-12-03T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12529"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:04:00","slug":"the-parable-of-the-wedding-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12529\/the-parable-of-the-wedding-supper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Wedding Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;m just trying to wrap my head around a few things from the most recent Bible study, which, by the way, was wonderful, the best yet!\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 parable of the king who was making a wedding banquet for his son, were the guests that were invited to the wedding supper, but refused\u00a0to\u00a0come, all\u00a0Jews?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Yes, the Jews were the first group chosen by God to partake of the Son\u2019s \u201cmarriage supper\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Their invitation is what we call the Old Testament (the law), and they were the only people, at\u00a0that time, chosen by God to receive it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Were the good and bad that the servants went out to invite to the wedding supper Jews and Gentiles?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>No, that invitation is what we call the New Testament, and it was for the Gentiles.\u00a0 Of course, Jews may enter into it, not as Jews, but as sinners like the rest of mankind, and not by the means once given to Israel, the Old Testament, but by faith in Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Were the bad considered the tares, mingled in with the wheat, of Jesus\u2019 other famous parable?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\">Yes, they are comparable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Was the man who came without wearing a wedding garment, the man who was cast into outer darkness, being judged prior to Judgment Day?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\">He was condemned, but his final judgment, that is, to be cast into the Lake of Fire, will come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks for your time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jim K<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>You are very welcome,\u00a0Jim.\u00a0 Hope that answer helps.\u00a0 Thank you for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, I&#8217;m just trying to wrap my head around a few things from the most recent Bible study, which, by the way, was wonderful, the best yet!\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 parable of the king who was making a wedding banquet for his son, were the guests that were invited to the wedding supper, but refused\u00a0to\u00a0come, all\u00a0Jews? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}