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The “king” in this passage clearly refers to God the Father. He is giving a wedding feast

               for “his son,” Yahshua the Messiah. He sends his servants out to announce the feast and to
               invite the guests to come. The servants are God’s prophets, and the guests, referred to here,

               represent Israel.
                     Israel, however, does not respond, so the king sends more servants out with a more

               explicit and emphatic message. Again, his servants are met with indifference. Many of those
               invited are caught up in their own pursuits and are aloof to the king and his invitation.

               Some are even more wicked and take the king’s messengers and abuse them and kill some.
                     The king is infuriated at this. In response He sends out his armies, destroys the

               murderers and sets their city on fire. The city is clearly referring to Jerusalem and her
               inhabitants.



                       Matthew 23:37-38

                       “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to
                       her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her

                       chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Behold, your house is being left to

                       you desolate!”


                     The guests that have been twice invited are now deemed to be unworthy, so the king

               sends his servants out to the main highways to find guests to fill his wedding hall. This

               indicates that the gentiles throughout the whole world are now being invited.
                     The king’s servants bring in those both evil and good. Some have asserted that this
               refers to the lost and the saved. Many preachers and teachers of the word of God have

               difficulty describing any of God’s children as being wicked. God, however, reveals no such

               difficulty in calling a spade a spade. A look at the following parable will make it clear that
               there are both evil and good, worthy and unworthy in the household of God.



                       Luke 12:42-48

                       And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master
                       will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?

                       Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. Truly I say to
                       you, that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But if that slave says in his
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