The Wedding Feast

[beckrl]

beckrl
If you don't plan on being a part of the Bride, then you better be a well dress guess

No I don't think that the gentiles will be the guess as we are given equal right to all the blessings of the Lord as well as the Jews. It is our faith relationship that blinds us to Christ just as it was with Abraham.

Ga 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ga 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Again I say it not so much of the "Hows" but jsut being ready at all times for His call.

Yes, we all both Jew and Gentile will be the bride of Christ, but in this parable of the wedding feast who are the guest?

Remember Jesus is at a supper were he tells this parable. It's not all about the bride

[rough_rider]

I think people get themselves in trouble when they try to tie parables and statements together which are not connected.
In Ephesians, the people of God are portrayed as the bride. In another passage Christ may use a wedding example without intending to represent the church as the bride. Just because He uses or Paul uses the bride and bridegroom to teach a lesson doesn't mean that every time He uses marriage as an example that one must assume He is going to use the bride to represent the church.
For instance, I don't think in the parable of the virgins waiting for the bridegroom (Matt. 25) that Jesus intends us to see the church as the bride even though the a wedding feast is being talked about in that passage. His intent is to teach perseverance and therefore the people of God are represented by the wise virgins and more to the point, the foolish virgins represent those who do not persevere. It is a passage encouraging the Children of God to persevere (See the end of Matt. 24).
In the passage beckrl uses here, the parable talks about a marriage but it really isn't using the "Jesus as the groom and the church as the bride" analogy like in Ephesians. He is simply using the example of people being honored with an invitation to a great gathering and celebration. He uses the King to emphasize the seriousness of the insult in rejecting the invitation. He uses the marriage of His Son to show the great time to come will be on account of the Son or centered around the Son. TW is right. The guests are those who accept the invitation to be a part of God's Kingdom (See v. 2). I tend to think the man who came to the wedding without the wedding garments, represents those who try to enter God's kingdom based upon their own righteousness instead of the righteousness provided for them by God (The king supplied the wedding garments for those who couldn't afford them).