AUGUST 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 AUGUST 27  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#27  “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”  (Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, O Precious Jesus, how sweet the Name!!! Jesus, as I awake to a new morning, I am immediately made aware of Your Presence, the Name rolls out of my heart and off my lips, unspoken, but yet it is loud enough that it carries all the way to the One that gave His Perfect Life for my wretched soul and I am made aware instantly that as soon as I spoke His Name that His Mercies were renewed fresh for me to start another day, not alone, not afraid, not weak, but ready to walk in His Footsteps on the Paths of Righteousness for His Name’s Sake — my heart says “Rejoice!” and I say again, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus”!        AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has introduced this third parable establishing that the Lesson is about “a certain king” who all Israel recognized as God Almighty and fits into the rhetoric John and Jesus has been preaching all along — “the kingdom of heaven is at hand”. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind in all of Israel that God Almighty is the “certain king” and that “heaven” is His Kingdom! From the Genesis account of the Fall of Man the Israelites were familiar with the introduction of the Messiah and the promise of “deliverance” from the Tempter (Satan) as God pronounced the curse on Satan and Eve as God said to Satan, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:15) All Israelite girls would wonder if their pregnancy would be a son and if a son, would that son be the Messiah?  The Psalms contains many Messianic Psalms which King David had written, many of which were written in the City of David in which Jesus is now Teaching this parable of the “certain king” that was going to “arrange a marriage for his son” so many in Jerusalem were aware of this passage: “Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed…He who sits in the heavens shall laugh…[and declares]…I have set My King on My holy hill in Zion…The LORD said, You are My Son, today I have begotten You…I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession..Be instructed, you judges of the earth…Kiss the Son lest you perish in the way of His wrath…Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.” (Psalm 2) Now Jesus has fulfilled all the prophecy of the coming Messiah and is about to fulfill Isaiah’s “Suffering Servant” prophecy found in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament) and yet just days before His death Jesus is Teaching this parable of “a certain king” [God in heaven] who is going to arrange a “marriage” for His Son — the contemporaries of Jesus were listening to “men” who said Jesus was not the Messiah even though Jesus had fulfilled enough Messianic prophecies that it was already astronomically impossible for anyone but Jesus to be the Messiah and yet the “rulers” would not yield to the obvious Truth of God that His Only Begotten Son had been born of flesh and has accomplished everything required of the Messiah and this “Son of God” was Jesus of Nazareth who was sitting in the temple Teaching this important parable — everyone was caught up in the “Son of God” issue like all who read these passages and fail to ask the question, “Who was going to be the bride?” This is a good question for everyone to consider:  “If God Almighty indeed arranged a marriage for His Son then there will be offspring of that union, for if God arranged the marriage, won’t He bless the Union with children?” And there still is the question of who is the “bride”?