Picking
up the rest of the story, as it ties together in chapter 22 of
Matthew, where we find this in verses 1 through 14;
“Jesus answered and spoke to them again by
parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is
like to a certain king (GOD),
which made a marriage for His son (Jesus),
and sent out His servants to call them that were bidden to the
wedding: and they would not come. Again,
He sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden,
Behold, I have prepared My dinner: My oxen and
fatlings
are
killed, and all things
are
ready:
come to the marriage.
But
they made light of
it,
and
went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
And
the remnant took his servants, and treated
them
spitefully,
and slew
them.
But
when the king heard
this,
He
was wroth: and He sent forth His armies, and destroyed those
murderers, and burned up their city. Then He said to His servants,
The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Go
out therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid
to the marriage.
So
those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all
as many as they found (these
stewards proclaimed His revelation to),
both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
My question for this is, have we now a clearer picture of what is about to take place at the Passover table and there following? Because you see the events are but one continuous event from the evening meal through the LORD's ascension (as seen in Psalm 68:18, Ephesians 4:8-10, Colossians 1:19-20, 21-29, 2:15), and return. For it is after He return that He opens the hearts of His disciple to receive the greater revelation of Himself as witnessed to within the context of the now old parchments (OT) which fore told of Him and all that He would bring about as the completion as the forever one, the end of days and other such phrases. This He does in His second ascension which takes place as recorded in Acts 1:9. Then after the forty days He again returns as the Spirit of Holiness and Truth to indwell all receptive ones, who believe Him. YES! believe Him not just believe in Him. Okay enough, I must get to the Last Supper this as found in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, John 13:21-30 and 1Corinthians 5:7 and chapter 11. Before I get ahead of myself allow me first to look at what Jesus tells us in Luke 20 about those married in the discussion with the priest's about the resurrection of the dead, the Sadducee's, remember they are a Jewish sect that denied the resurrection and an after life, are speaking to Him here and asking Him a question; “Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world (kingdom of heaven and of GOD in spirit, not yet seen), and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage*: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels; and are the children (Son's) of God, being the children of the resurrection (having passed from death while in the world and are no longer of this world). Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to (or in) Him. Then certain of the scribes answering asked, Master, You have well stated. After that they dared not ask Him any question at all.”
*Here is a clue for us all to get hold of and it is this, as a seed which has a hard shell of callousness around it, our soul/heart and spirit have this hardness in our flesh which God's hand circumcises through a metaphoric death to sin and the flesh. In what is known and called a dieing “to self”, a surrendering of our flesh and its new nature of sin acquired in the fall of man through woman and Adams actions as recorded in Gen. 3:1-15. Where and when the exchange took place from a life in and with GOD to that of Satan's nature now predominate and mans ruling force as a strongman within, encapsulating our heart, soul and spirit. Which speaks through our flesh as the voice of mans flesh as an abundance of the heart, which reveals mans true state of being and which is to be judged or made known as false. Paul calls this a discerning of spirits in Corinthians. Listen closely to what is revealed in the passages dealing with the Last Supper or Passover meal. Because hidden within its language are many terms which the word LORD reveal as belonging to it. Beginning at verse 17 of Matthew 26 through 30; “The first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, asking, Where will You that we prepare for You to eat the passover? Jesus answering said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Master said, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with My disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
When the even was come, He sat down with the twelve. And as they did eat, He said, Verily I say to you, that one of you shall betray me. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say to Him, Lord, is it I? He answering said, He that dips his hand with Me in the dish, the same shall betray Me. The Son of man goes as it is written of Him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed him, said, Master, is it I? He said to him, you have said.
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it; For this is My blood of the new testament, (Jeremiah 31:31-32, 33-34, 32:40, Ezekiel 37:26) which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.”
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