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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 10, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 45.

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A. N. DURRANT

By A. N. Durrant

Feasting on God’s Word—No. 2

A. N. DURRANT

Those who to-day are feasting on God’s written Word will one day sit around a great table many miles in length, in the kingdom of God, at the marriage supper that is now being prepared, when the Son of God “shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.” Luke 12:37. Truly, “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.” Rev. 19:9.
It is indeed a sad fact that many are making excuses to-day of which they will repent with anguish of soul when it is forever too late. The last invitations to the marriage supper are now being given everywhere, through the last message that God is sending to the world. Compare Luke 14:16-24; Matt. 22:1-4; Rev. 14:6-14. It is not breakfast time, nor dinner time; it is supper—the last meal—time, in God’s day of grace. Have you accepted the invitation? Are you heeding the essentials in getting the right attire on, before you shall come face to face with the King? “Many are called, but few are chosen.” “When the King came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? And he was speechless.” Let us heed the lesson. Let us look well to ourselves, and see if we are being clothed with suitable garments—“the garments of salvation” and the “robe of righteousness” (Isa. 61:10) wrought for us in Christ Jesus, the Lord our Righteousness.
The man in the parable, who was “speechless,” is symbolic of the great mass of mankind, who will come up to the day of Jesus’ coming, believing, being deceived, that they are heirs of his kingdom, and prepared to meet him; but alas! to be fatally disappointed. See Matt. 7:21-27. They have neglected to rectify their lives by the Word of God; they builded not on the sayings of the Lord; now they “walk naked,” and their shame is seen. Rev. 16:15.
God help us all to put off our robes of sin and self-righteousness, and be clothed with the perfect robe of Christ’s righteousness! God forbid, dear reader, that any one of us shall be speechless before the King in that great day “when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.” 2 Thess. 1:10. O, may we all be ready when the Bridegroom comes!
Trinidad, British West Indies.