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   From: enometh@meer.net   
      
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   Wrote on Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:30:41 -0800:   
      
   > On Nov 30, 2025, Madhu wrote   
   > (Message-ID: ):   
   >> What about the parable of the Wedding Garment   
   >> Matt 22:1-14   
   >>   
   >> 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not   
   >> having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.   
   >>   
   >> (not present in Luke 14:15-24)   
   >   
   > Nor should it be as it is a separate Parable, distinctly different.   
      
   wikipedia says they are the same. (the details of those described as   
   rejecting the invitations differ, and the speechless guy who gets thrown   
   out is not there in Luke)   
      
   >> To wit this is not a banking parable, so it can't be dismissed as   
   >> satire.   
   >   
   > I do not understand what you mean by a ‘banking parable’. Plus I know not   
   > any parable as satirical. ??   
      
   In my case I cannot intepret the parables that use money and banking to   
   convey a message as anything but satitical!  Lazarus and Dives is satire   
   on the the high priest family of Annas (the five brothers-in-law of   
   Caiaphas, all saduccess).   
      
   > In regards to your question stemming from Matthew. I know that as the   
   > parable of the Wedding Feast. AKA, the one spoken of for the Bride of   
   > Christ, the King. The friend who came in without a wedding Garment,   
   > obviously was not clothed with the Righteousness of God. He was as if   
   > a tare amongst the wheat.  Like many christians.   
      
   This is the interpretation of our local pastor, that he came clothed in   
   his own righteousness.  In both gospels Israel is identified as those   
   who rejected the invitation. That is fine.  The pastor interprets the   
   "speechlessness" as having no excuse, but I don't think that is fair.   
   The pastor's interpretation says that the king had arranged to give   
   wedding garments to all invited, but this is not in the text.   
      
   He's speechless because he think of the justification for the   
   question. If He was some poor unworthy who was picked up, without   
   clothes or any merit, and asked to come, and came as he was, and then   
   the King asks him that question, he would be speechless.  This is how I   
   read it the first time I read it.   
      
   > The one part of that parable, as I understand it, is not yet clear to   
   > me, that being that the person was at the wedding feast in the first   
   > place.  Especially in light of the parable of the ten virgins, of   
   > which five were left behind. Perhaps it may be a warning to those who   
   > do not walk in the spirit, of their demise.   
      
   Or, .... God forbid ... it may confirm some calvinistic double   
   predestination of those called but not chosen.  The Sauls and the   
   Judases who are destined to be betrayed.   
      
   > This, like the other parable you spoke of are prophetic parables. This   
   > one taking place at the end of this age.   
   >   
   > It is for sure, the parable, speaking to so-called christians who did   
   > not have an attitude of Christ first, as they were too busy walking in   
   > the flesh, attending to the cares of this world, and not in   
   > maintaining a day to day relationship with God, aka known as sinner   
   > christians.   
      
   or busy serving satan and his money laundering angels under a christian   
   narrative,  this is explicit in the parables of The Sheep and The Goats.   
   There may be a calvinistic twist here too,   
      
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