THE WEDDING GARMENT by R. F. C.

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 8, 1857

THE WEDDING GARMENT.

By R. F. C.

Since the True Witness is counseling us to buy of him white raiment that we may be clothed, have we not reason to believe, that the point in the parable of Matt. xxii, where the king is represented as coming in to see the guests, is on the very eve of its fulfillment.

It needs no labored argument to prove that this parable must all have its fulfillment before the coming of the Lord. For the saints will be changed to immortality in a moment, and caught up to meet him in the air. No one will be found in that company without a wedding garment, and as a consequence, be cast out.

Seeing that it must have its fulfillment here in this mortal state, some have thought that, with the Third Message, the king came in to see the guests. But an examination of this parable, and a comparison with that of Luke xiv, will show that the Third Message, which is to the highways and hedges, gathers 'bad and good' before the king comes in to see the guests. The idea that the final message which God sends to sever out his people from the world, should gather 'both bad and good,' has been somewhat perplexing. But is it not fully explained by the threatening to the Laodiceans of being cast out of the Lord's mouth unless they buy of him 'white raiment,' that they may be clothed. This is not a message to the world, but to the church—to the guests which have been gathered in by the Third Message.

Who of us will be found without a wedding garment? This is a solemn inquiry. Lord, send us the anointing that we may see.

R. F. C.