The parable of the wedding feast condemns the self-righteousness and contempt with which the Jews had treated God’s Grace.  In this parable, Jesus brings clarity and love to the subject of the Kingdom of Heaven.

In this story: 

• The king represents God.
• His Son represents Jesus, the Bridegroom.
• His servants are all of those who understand and go and spread the Good News.
• The Wedding Banquet is salvation and eternal life.
• The guests are those who are invited to God’s Heavenly banquet.
• The wedding garment represents repentance, a change of heart and mind, a new way of life. The wedding garment also signifies love from a pure heart and from a good conscience and is necessary for entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.
• The wedding invitation represents the request to be an honored guest at the Banquet Feast to be held at the end of time!  This invitation is a generous gift that is offered free of charge.
• The Kingdom of Heaven is the rule and reign of  God in our Hearts, a state of the soul, into which we are all invited here and now to enter!