
The kingdom of heaven is like…a king, part 2
This time, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepares a feast and invites people via his slaves. They brush off the invitation so the king sent different slaves, but the invitees either had better things to do and/or killed […]
This time, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepares a feast and invites people via his slaves. They brush off the invitation so the king sent different slaves, but the invitees either had better things to do and/or killed the king’s slaves even after being told that an enormous feast had been prepared for them. The king was outraged and sent his troops to destroy the murderers and their city; afterwards, he sent his slaves to the streets to invite anyone to the wedding banquet he had prepared. The slaves gathered all they could find – good and bad – and invited them to the great feast but when the king saw a man without a wedding robe on, he ordered him thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 22:1-14). (more…)
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