SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/30/2023 7:55 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Rejecters Punished”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
22:7-8
Message of the verses: “7 "But the
king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.
8 “Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were
invited were not worthy.”
We now move on to the second scene and this scene
involves punishment of those rebellious subjects who had rejected the king’s
call. I have mentioned in earlier SD’s that God is patient, but that His
patience will run out, and then there will be punishment involved. I have looked at God’s patience as like
having a bottle in heaven, a bottle of patience, and when that bottle gets
filled the patience of God then runs out and He is forced, according to who He
is to do something about it, which He will do.
Now as we look at the parable we have seen that the King had set
messengers, (slaves) to the people whom he had invited to the wedding feast of
his son on more than one occasion, and they had refused all of his invitations,
as they had actually ignored all of his callings to the feast. I have to say that as I go back and look at
the excuses that they gave that of one going to work on his farm, another on
his business, but the rest of them became hostile and then killed the king’s
slaves. Think about that in giving out
the gospel message today. Many who hear
it don’t want anything to do with it, but some become very antagonistic and so
they will kill the messengers who are giving out the gospel message. I have heard a long time ago that there are
many, many people each day who are killed for the cause of Christ, and we can
see this in this parable that Jesus gives.
We talked about John the Baptist, and Jesus who were killed, and 11of
the apostles were also killed for the cause of Christ, and it has gone goes on since
then. Living in the United States of
America since it began over two hundred years ago has been a time in history
when this did not go on here, but things are changing now and people are now
being jailed for the cause of Christ, and if some of these evil people have
their way murders will be next, and then if the Lord tarries the killing of
believers will be like doing a favor to those in charge. Satan never rests!
I
will now quote one paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary and then Lord willing
will finish this section in our next SD.
“The term behind armies (strateuma)
refers to any group of armed forces and is probably better translated ‘troops,’
since the king would hardly have needed his full military might to accomplish
his purpose. According to the king’s
instructions, the troops both destroyed the murderers responsible for killing
his emissaries and set their city on fire.
The fulfillment of the second prophetic feature in the story occurred in
A. D. 70.”
7/30/2023 8:18 AM
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