Thursday, April 29, 2021

BLESSINGS OF PERSONAL INVITATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     Jesus Christ spoke to people in parables, stories that included truths and often instructions related to My kingdom of God coming to earth to become part of the earth's blessings for My children.   He told them a parable about a wedding feast for a man's son.  The man was so elated with his son's bride and his son's love for his bride, and so the man sent invitations to summon a multitude of invited guests to the wedding banquet in which it was the tradition to serve a lavish meal with plenty of wine for the people who accepted his invitation to attend.  It was going to be a lavish celebration of the impending marriage.  Unfortunately, no one accepted the invitation to attend.  (Matthew 22:1-3)  
     The father of the groom sent additional invitations to people to attend, telling his servants to remind the invitees that he was going to have a banquet that rivaled every other wedding feast in the country.  In the invitation he even described that he had prepared the menu himself, that he had participated in the fattening of his calves and bulls, that everything was prepared and he told the servants to encourage the invitees by telling them how wonderful the food was going to be and how fun the entertainment would be.  Again the invited guests paid no attention to the invitation, some even treating the invitation with contempt.  The invited guests went away to their farms or businesses instead of attending the wedding feast.  Some of the invited guests even captured the man's servants, treated them shamefully and killed them.  Hearing that news from some of his other servants the father of the groom was furious, and so he sent his soldiers and put the murderers to death and even burned their cities.
    The father of the groom told his servants whom he had chosen to deliver more invitations that the wedding feast had been been beautifully prepared but the invitees had proven not to be worthy of being invited. (Matthew 22:5-8) So he told his servants who were delivering the invitations to go into the main road of the city where the roads met and invite to the wedding feast as many people as they could find.  Those servants did exactly what the father of the groom instructed.  They went to the common roads in the city and invited everyone they saw, the good and the bad, so that the venue for his son's wedding would be filled with guests to celebrate with him the wedding of his son and the son's bride. (Matthew 22:10-12)
   On the day of the wedding the king came into the hall to review the guests and he saw a man who did not have on the usual wedding garments.   He quizzed the man and the man could not justify his attendance at such a lavish affair.  So the father of the groom identified  that guest who had not cleansed himself and dressed himself in wedding clothes and had him bound hand and foot and thrown into the abyss where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth.  The undeserving man represents the devil and his demons who always invade the celebrations of My children in order to curse them and their existence in the earth.
    That parable of Jesus Christ related to the Jewish religious and political people whom Jesus had warned His followers had become stiff necked, proud, arrogant, righteous in following their own man made laws and they had become self righteous instead of righteous by following My instructions.  They would not listen to the teachings of Jesus and John the Baptist and repent for their pride and arrogance.  Instead, they were the leaders in causing the Roman authorities to arrest, try and then crucify My Son Jesus Christ.  The religious leaders had followed Jesus around trying to entice him to break Jewish laws so that they could justify their accusations to the Roman authorities.  They were the guests who were invited into My kingdom of God but refused to come and even killed the prophets and My Son whom I had sent to bring salvation into their lives on earth. 
    My solution was to change the addresses on My invitations to the wedding feast of Jesus Christ and the church, who is the bride of Christ, and instead of continuing to invite the religious and political Pharisees, Sadducees, the lawyers, the chief priests, the priests and the elders of the temple, instead of continuing to invite them I sent invitations to the sinners, the tax collectors and the harlots to come into My kingdom of God to become the bride of Christ with all of its blessings and rewards.  Their sins were easier to forgive because of their lack of religious pride.(Matthew 22:8-10)   The wedding became a glorious affair because the attendees were humble, thankful, cleansed and grateful.  However, I identified the devil in the midst of the celebration and had him bound, gagged and sent to the fiery furnace in the abyss which had been prepared for him from the foundation of the earth.  (Matthew 22:11-14; Matthew 13:36-42)  My gift of discerning of spirits was resident in the father of the groom and he acted immediately in casting the devil into the fiery furnace which I prepared for the devil before I even created the earth, which is what I do when demonic spirits invade the lives of My children who are called by My name. 
    The parable of the wedding feast is a picture of the truth that many are called but only a few choose to enter into My kingdom of God, those being the people who believe in the ministry of Jesus Christ.  Those people have chosen to enter and are enjoying My kingdom of God on earth while others are still waiting for what has already come into the earth, that being My kingdom of God with all of its blessings and rewards to everyone who is born of My Spirit, baptized in My Holy Spirit, led by My Holy Spirit and prays in the language of My Holy Spirit.  (Romans 8; Ephesians 6)
    Your Father of Parables of Truth

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