The Wedding Feast Parable and Repentance

Second Peter 3:9: "The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness. Instead, He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to Teshuvah, repentance." This month is also when we prepare for and meditate on the wedding of the Messiah, which is the month before the celebratory event will be fulfilled. So, what does that mean? Just like I showed you guys before, this is the last month before the wedding of the Messiah. When Yeshua returns, the wedding of the Messiah will be on the Feast of Trumpets. But if we don't know that, then if we don't know the calendar, if we don't know the feast days, we don't know the events, then we're going to be lost. And that reminds me of Matthew 22. That is a wedding feast parable. But I would take that literal as well. Matthew 22, what does it say? We all know He invited the people to the wedding feast. They didn't want to come. They were enjoying the world, marrying, drinking, having fun, whatever it may be. And then He told people to invite everybody. And then everybody came into the wedding feast, and He said, "Hey friend, how did you get in here? You have a different garment on." Think about that. A different garment on. How did you get in here? "Bind that servant hand and foot and cast him away with weeping and gnashing of teeth." That's not good, everybody. That's not good at all to be told to get out. But that's what Yeshua says in Matthew 22. There's going to be a lot of people coming to the wedding. You're not invited because you're not cleansed. You're not set apart in Him and believing in Him and worshiping Him in spirit and in truth. Christians, the second part of that is what you really need to focus on: "Worshiping in spirit and in truth." Not paganism, not Gregorian calendar, not Babylonian, not Roman, not none of that crap. You've got to get into the scriptures and worship in spirit and in truth, or not. You could have a Matthew 22 moment when you stand before the King of Israel. So, please understand that the Feast of Trumpets is a lot of different events that's going to happen: the Day of Judgment, the Wedding of the Messiah, the Coronation of the Messiah, the Hidden Day, the Day of Judgment, the tribulation, the rapture or the resurrection of the saints will be on the Feast of Trumpets. So, you have six idioms or events that's going to occur on this day. And please don't forget about any of them. And we'll be going through all of them on the Feast of Trumpets to help everybody understand that. If you don't understand that, that's okay. But we've got to understand that as we get to the end of the age, or like Paul says, if we don't understand the times and the seasons, thief in the night, and you will not escape. And I will not escape either if I don't understand that as well.

This month is also... I think I just read that. Okay. And then yes, I think I went ahead and mentioned it. But in the Gospel account of Matthew, Yeshua shares a profound parable about His wedding feast. And I'll read this really quick. I just went through it in summary, but I'll read it again. I didn't realize I included it. It is written, "And Yeshua answered and spoke to them again by parable, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for a son and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding.' And they were not willing to come. Again, He sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who were invited, "See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are all killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding."' But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his business. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. But when the king heard about it, he was furious."

And He sent out His armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then He said to the servants, "The wedding is ready." But those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore, go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite them to the wedding. So those servants went out to the highways and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, He saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. So He said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?" And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, "Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." For many are called, but few are chosen.

My friends, this is super important when you talk about the Feast of Trumpets and the wedding of the Messiah. Yes, it's a parable, but I believe it's literal as well. He says at the end there, "For many are called, but few are chosen." In Matthew 7, it says that many will go into the wide gate, and the few will go into the narrow gate. So, Matthew 22 with Matthew 7, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, understand what Yeshua is truly saying. For many are called, they will go to the wide gate (Matthew 7). And few are chosen, they will go to the narrow gate (Matthew 7). So, my friends, which one is it? The narrow gate or the wide gate? The many or the chosen? You want to be chosen. You want to be chosen.

In this understanding, you want to be chosen with these things to go through the narrow gate, and very few find that. Matthew 22 really gets the heart position in the right area because He is speaking about the Jewish people, but He's also speaking about the Gentiles as well. Very fair, very balanced. We've got to believe. We've got to worship the right way. We've got to be in alignment, or not. It's not going to be good if we come to stand before the King of Israel with a different garment on than the one that He wants us in: white and clean. We can't be white and clean with paganism. We can't be white and clean by worshiping man and man's ways, which is what Christianity does and Judaism does as well with their oral traditions.

So, my friends, there's only one way to worship: God's way. Not Judaism's way, not Christianity's way, but God's way. And until we understand that as Jews and Gentiles, we're going to be in a heck of a mess. Just take a look around the world. Again, Yah is judging this world right now because the Jews and the Christians have not done our part. We have not. Look at this world. Look at the evil all across this world because we're all over the place as believers in Yah and believers in Yeshua, with 50,000 denominations all over the world, different sects of Judaism all over the place. I mean, goodness gracious, no wonder He's pouring out the gavel on this world because the Jews and the Christians have not done our part in His kingdom. And He's letting the household of God get the business first, and then He'll deal with the world. But again, just keep that in mind as we look at Israel, we look at America, we look at all these things, Europe, that He's given the business to everybody because the Jews and the Christians, all of us, have not done our part in God's kingdom on this earth, or this world would not be looking the way that it does. You might be doing your part, amen. But as a whole, we are not doing our part at all. Because this world is evil, and goodness gracious, the love of many has grown definitely frosty, to say the least. So much hatred in the world.

Matthew 22, my friends, is very serious. Take it as a parable. Take it literal. Understand what Yeshua is truly saying with this. Many are called, they will go to the wide gate because of the ways of the world. The four soils in Matthew 13, they get choked out because of the worries of the world. And then the chosen, they don't care about all that stuff. You don't care about all that stuff. I don't care about all that stuff. We're going to go through the narrow gate because we could care less about the world and what's in the world, which is totally evil according to Yeshua.

In Yeshua's parable, we can receive great insight as to the attitude of many, including the believers at the end of the age. We need to always make sure our priorities are aligned with the Master, anticipating and eagerly awaiting the beautiful wedding of the Messiah, which surely will come upon some as a thief in the night.