Answering the Call #1: Matthew 22:14

Greetings Sons of God! Yes, even you my Sister’s; for you are sons of God in female bodies. This verse, Matthew 22:14 “For many are called, but few are chosen”, occurs at the end of a parable told by our Lord Jesus which is both prophetic and revelatory. Jesus favored teaching this way, in parabolic language, that is He preferred teaching in “a short statement or comments that conveyed a meaning indirectly using comparison, analogy or the like”. Many of the “mysteries” of the Kingdom of God were related to use in parables, and now with the help of Holy Spirit, we can begin to understand and interpret their meanings and deep spiritual truths. This parable, sub-titled “the king’s marriage feast”, tells about a “certain” king. When Jesus injected the word certain into a parable He was speaking about a real person, place or event but again telling the story for as an analogy. This King, if one reads the parable and has revelation knowledge, is without a doubt speaking about God, the Father who had made a marriage for His Son (who without a doubt was/is Jesus). The King sends His servants (the Patriarch’s, Priest’s, and Prophet’s) to call “them that were bidden” or had been previously invited to the wedding (without doubt the Children of Israel), but the refused to come. The King still sends out other servants, who alert those invited to come to an already prepared wedding feast, but they made light of it going about in their own ways doing business and other activities of their daily lives. Some of those invited individuals even took some of the King’s servants and mistreated and killed them. This action, the refusal to respond to an invitation, especially to a wedding, was almost unheard of in Biblical times; weddings and wedding feasts were occasions that commanded the attention and attendance of more than just the bride’s and groom’s family and friends, but often the whole population of towns and villages would come out, as well as some enemies who would become friends because of the celebration of the covenant of marriage. Jesus tells us that the King was “wroth” and sent His armies (angels/judgements, etc.) to destroy those people and burn their cities. Again, if one reads this parable with understanding, one can see the almost the entirety of history of the Old Testament in these verses. Now the King takes a unusual step, He sends forth yet other servants with the command…,”Go ye therefore unto the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage”. The highways in Biblical times were dangerous places to be. Almost always one would encounter thieves and robbers over the road, who would relieve you of your money, and sometime your life. These individuals who the King sent for, and invited the to His son’s marriage, were the criminals, sinners, drunks, etc. as well as some of the poor, infirmed, non-citizens, etc. When the King came into the wedding feast and saw one of those who now were invited, but not dressed in the right clothing, He ordered that the invited guest be bound and casted out. What then is the revelatory meaning of this Scripture? I believe one can see the prophetic meaning rather clearly looking both before and ahead in how God has dealt and will deal with His people, who should have come to Jesus in the pardon of their sins; and to those who did come but like the 5 Foolish Virgins of Matthew 25, they were not ready to attend the Marriage Supper being clothed in their own (righteousness) or some other (religious) “clothing”, instead of the righteousness of God which is in Christ Jesus. The revelation is that many have been previously called (invited/bidden) in the foreknowledge of God…called before the foundation of the world…but some have taken the invitation lightly and have been burden with “the cares of this world…”, thus, they have been to busy to not only have the will and Word of God revealed to them, but even if they have a revelation they don’t act on it (in and by faith), and thus produce no fruit. Those who have “answered the call” by responding to the invitation, getting properly dressed, and then attending the marriage are those who were indeed chosen. It’s all a matter of choice!