...FOR the promised and prophesied EARTHLY MK age, aka "the wedding FEAST / SUPPER," [to which "GUESTS [PLURAL]" will have been "INVITED" DURING the Trib yrs (FOLLOWING "our Rapture")...
I am sorry, but this is just more absolute nonsense.
Let's take a look at these "guests":
Matthew 22:1-2
"And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,"
In this parable, Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven to a certain king who made a marriage for his son. I hope that we would at least agree that this king is God the Father and that his son who is getting married is Jesus Christ.
Matthew 22:3-7
"And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city."
This king, or God the Father, sent forth his servants, or the prophets, to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come to the marriage with the accompanying dinner or supper. Some made light of the invitation and went their own ways, and others took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. Of course, Jesus was here referring to the Jews who killed their own prophets whom God had repeatedly sent to them. In fact, God eventually got so angry or wroth that he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city which is Jerusalem.
Do you understand this?
If so, then pause here for a moment, and ask yourself this very important question:
Were these Jews who were bidden to this marriage and dinner or supper merely "guests", as in those who were merely invited as casual observers, or were they invited as part of the actual bride of Christ itself?
Of course, the right answer is the latter of the two. Keep this in mind as the parable continues.
Matthew 22:8-10
"Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests."
Seeing how the original invitees, the non-believing Jews to whom Christ was here referring, were not worthy to attend this wedding and the accompanying dinner or supper as part of the bride of Christ, the king, or God the Father, instructed his servants, or the prophets, to go out into the highways, and to bid as many as they could find to the marriage and dinner in the place of the non-believing Jews. They, these new invitees, were to be a part of the bride of Christ in the stead of the non-believing Jews, and not just merely "guests" in the manner in which we might use that word today. In other words, here, Christ is equating these "guests" with the bride of Christ.
Matthew 22:11-14
"And 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 a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen."
When the king, or when God the Father, came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment, and we know, from elsewhere in scripture, that this wedding garment is the following:
Revelation 19:7-9
"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."
As Christians, our wedding garments, figuratively speaking, are fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints, and this is what this man was found to be without.
Let's pause here for another moment, and ask ourselves another very important question:
Where was this inspection taking place?
In heaven or on earth?
If it was taking place in heaven at the marriage and its accompanying dinner or supper, as many people wrongly believe and teach, then how did this man get to heaven without being clothed in fine linen, clean and white?
It is absolute nonsense.
This inspection takes place on earth because that is where the marriage and its accompanying dinner or supper will take place. Those who appear before Christ at the great white throne judgment at the end of his millennial reign without a wedding garment will be cast into outer darkness where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Finally, according to that which Jesus actually taught in relation to his marriage and the accompanying dinner or supper, these "guests" have been being invited all throughout history to be a part of the bride of Christ, and not merely during the tribulation years after your imaginary pre-tribulation rapture allegedly occurs.
.... Me... so this post is coming from the "pre-trib" perspective... just to be clear]
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