New Testament 279

Matthew 22:1-14

Compare 8:12; Luke 14:15-24

Plainly, this famous parable points to the rejection of Jesus by his fellow Jews and to their eventual replacement by the Gentiles.

These things seem to provide types and archetypes, though, and history, as seen through a scriptural lens, tends to repeat itself (obviously with variations) in cycles. So I can’t help but thinking that, in this last dispensation, too, some of the children of the Kingdom, the invited guests, the offspring — to be specific — of multigenerational Mormon families, will skip the banquet and be replaced with other guests, often from far away and very foreign places and peoples.

So it goes, sadly.  So it seems always to have gone.

“God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.”