Parable on the Invitees to a Feast.

(Luke 14:16-24).

The Lord responded to this exclamation with a parable, in which “great supper” is meant to be the Messiah’s Kingdom, or Christ’s Church. The organizer of this supper is the Lord God Who, by means of the law and the Prophets, invited the whole Jewish people to enter this Kingdom. When this Kingdom drew near, He again invited them, but this time through Messiah-Christ Himself. In some prophesies, like Isaiah 52:13, the Messiah is referred to as the “Lord’s Servant,” appearing in the form of a human.

Initially, the Messiah appeared only to the “chosen” — to the Jews with news that “The Kingdom of God has come near,”: because everything was ready. But among those Jews, to whom the initial call was made, like the experts on the laws of the Old Testament — Scribes and Pharisees and other leaders of God’s chosen people, began to refuse the invitation — as though in collusion among themselves. Their earthly, sensate motives served as their pretext, through which they became deaf to the Divine calling, and thereby rejected the Messiah-Christ that came to them. The Lord then directed the Messiah to call the tax-collectors and sinners. As there were still many seats left after this call, the Lord then summoned heathens into His Kingdom. Everyone that responded to the Gospel’s sermon, entered the Messiah’s Kingdom — God’s Kingdom, while those who spurned the call, Scribes and Pharisees, found themselves excluded.