The King’s Son of Matt. 22:1-14

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 22.

The King’s Son of Matt. 22:1–14

No. 588. The King's Son of Matt. 22: 1-14.

Will you please explain the parable of the marriage of the king's son in Matthew 22? If Christ is the Bridegroom and the church is the bride, who are the two classes of guests? some had on the wedding garment and one had not.

The marriage set forth in this parable is not designed to prefigure the union of Christ with his church; for that comes through faith on the part of each believer. Rom. 7:4. What is set forth in the parable is the reception of his kingdom by our Lord, in which he is represented as the Bridegroom and Everlasting Father. The city of the New Jerusalem, standing for the entire kingdom, is represented as the bride, and the mother, while the people of God are the children and guests. Read in this connection Isa. 54:1-5; Gal. 4:26, 27; Isa. 62:1-5; Rev. 21:2, 9, 10. The coming "in to see the guests" represents the judgment, where a profession of religion will not pass as possession, and the Lord will cast out all those who are not clothed with his righteousness.