Many are called ... few are chosen!
Blessed be the Lord. "Many are called ....." Yes for many years I quoted that verse however today the Lord had me look at it in its context.
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, .... Matt 22:2
So Jesus is speaking a parable concerning the kingdom of heaven and a marriage for His son. Now we must see this parable is concerning the marriage. It is not about being in sonship nor brideship it is about a calling going out to all concerning the marriage supper.
"...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. Matt 22:4
See what the Lord is showing is the guests that have heard the call to attend the marriage supper!
"...and the wedding was furnished with guests." Matt 22:10
Ahhhhhhhh yes order, structure in the kingdom of heaven. There shall be sonship, brideship and guests. Ohhhhhhh some will think I was not taught that in church. Of course not for the teaching in churches are man based rather then Holy Spirit anointed Word!
QUOTE = The Lord Himself has told us, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Ah, “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb!” Oh, how bountifully blessed they are! Yet — can we not see that these are the “called” ones? “Many are called…” May I say it this way — in our present application, the multitudes attending the marriage of the Lamb are the called ones.
The bride, however, is the chosen one!
And the mystery is just this: “…few are chosen.” There is a little company today, who have come out of all the defilement around about us, who have forsaken man-made churches with their fears and fables, to be married to their Lord, and to Him alone. These are they who rule over His household, and who are now in travail to bring forth (Isa. 65:8). And there is a great feast spread, a feast wherein the wife and a portion of the “daughters,” the “virgins,” will attend (Mat. 25:10). It is the third feast of the Israelite year: not Passover, for that was fulfilled at Calvary; and not Pentecost, for that has been fulfilled throughout the church age. This third feast of the year is the feast of Tabernacles! It is “the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year” (Ex. 23:16, 34:22; Deut. 16:13-15). And this feast IS THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB! “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb!”
God is calling many in this hour and He is also choosing a few. We are now in this place where God is choosing, just as He chose Moses, David, the prophets, Peter, Paul, Andrew, James, John and others who have been His instruments in every great move of God throughout the ages to be used by Him specially; we are now in an hour of divine choice.
God is again choosing men! We are not choosing Him, He is choosing us. We are just responding to His choosing! God is making choice of those through whom there will come the complete, the full, the total revelation and manifestation of Jesus Christ in all of its glory, all of its power, all of its authority, and all of its salvation, so that all flesh shall see the salvation of God and all the ends of the earth the glory of the Lord upon the Lamb and His wife and His many brethren!
Behold — I show you a mystery! While we speak of the bride, and what a glorious and illustrious company she is, and those called, what a blessed company they are, let us not lose sight of the fact that the marriage is the “marriage of the Lamb.”
It is the Lamb and His wife. It is the celebration of their joy, of their love, of their union, of their lives.
The deep mystery which the Holy Spirit would now make precious to our hearts is just this — there is a corporate body of overcomers having a masculine character identified with the Lamb and they share His holy mount of Zion, they sit with Him in His throne, they ride white horses with Him in His conquest — for just as the bride is a corporate body of beloved ones, so also the GROOM is a corporate body of sons.
Paul by inspiration wrote of those mature ones who “grow up into Him in all things WHICH IS THE HEAD, EVEN CHRIST” Eph. 4:15
Can we not see that this signifies those who grow up into HIS HEADSHIP. These are also designated as a MANCHILD and as KINGS AND PRIESTS unto God, indicating that they grow up into HIS KINGSHIP, into HIS PRIESTHOOD, and into HIS SONSHIP.
It should be obvious that a son cannot be a bride anymore than a king can be a queen. The bride of Christ has a joint rulership as a queen — but she is not the king! Christ is King of kings — signifying a KINGSHIP COMPANY.
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. Isa 62:5
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But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12,13
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Rev 1:6
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Rev 5:10 (Neither does the bride nor the guests reign)
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Rev 20:6
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, .... Matt 22:2
So Jesus is speaking a parable concerning the kingdom of heaven and a marriage for His son. Now we must see this parable is concerning the marriage. It is not about being in sonship nor brideship it is about a calling going out to all concerning the marriage supper.
"...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. Matt 22:4
See what the Lord is showing is the guests that have heard the call to attend the marriage supper!
"...and the wedding was furnished with guests." Matt 22:10
Ahhhhhhhh yes order, structure in the kingdom of heaven. There shall be sonship, brideship and guests. Ohhhhhhh some will think I was not taught that in church. Of course not for the teaching in churches are man based rather then Holy Spirit anointed Word!
QUOTE = The Lord Himself has told us, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Ah, “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb!” Oh, how bountifully blessed they are! Yet — can we not see that these are the “called” ones? “Many are called…” May I say it this way — in our present application, the multitudes attending the marriage of the Lamb are the called ones.
The bride, however, is the chosen one!
And the mystery is just this: “…few are chosen.” There is a little company today, who have come out of all the defilement around about us, who have forsaken man-made churches with their fears and fables, to be married to their Lord, and to Him alone. These are they who rule over His household, and who are now in travail to bring forth (Isa. 65:8). And there is a great feast spread, a feast wherein the wife and a portion of the “daughters,” the “virgins,” will attend (Mat. 25:10). It is the third feast of the Israelite year: not Passover, for that was fulfilled at Calvary; and not Pentecost, for that has been fulfilled throughout the church age. This third feast of the year is the feast of Tabernacles! It is “the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year” (Ex. 23:16, 34:22; Deut. 16:13-15). And this feast IS THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB! “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb!”
God is calling many in this hour and He is also choosing a few. We are now in this place where God is choosing, just as He chose Moses, David, the prophets, Peter, Paul, Andrew, James, John and others who have been His instruments in every great move of God throughout the ages to be used by Him specially; we are now in an hour of divine choice.
God is again choosing men! We are not choosing Him, He is choosing us. We are just responding to His choosing! God is making choice of those through whom there will come the complete, the full, the total revelation and manifestation of Jesus Christ in all of its glory, all of its power, all of its authority, and all of its salvation, so that all flesh shall see the salvation of God and all the ends of the earth the glory of the Lord upon the Lamb and His wife and His many brethren!
Behold — I show you a mystery! While we speak of the bride, and what a glorious and illustrious company she is, and those called, what a blessed company they are, let us not lose sight of the fact that the marriage is the “marriage of the Lamb.”
It is the Lamb and His wife. It is the celebration of their joy, of their love, of their union, of their lives.
The deep mystery which the Holy Spirit would now make precious to our hearts is just this — there is a corporate body of overcomers having a masculine character identified with the Lamb and they share His holy mount of Zion, they sit with Him in His throne, they ride white horses with Him in His conquest — for just as the bride is a corporate body of beloved ones, so also the GROOM is a corporate body of sons.
Paul by inspiration wrote of those mature ones who “grow up into Him in all things WHICH IS THE HEAD, EVEN CHRIST” Eph. 4:15
Can we not see that this signifies those who grow up into HIS HEADSHIP. These are also designated as a MANCHILD and as KINGS AND PRIESTS unto God, indicating that they grow up into HIS KINGSHIP, into HIS PRIESTHOOD, and into HIS SONSHIP.
It should be obvious that a son cannot be a bride anymore than a king can be a queen. The bride of Christ has a joint rulership as a queen — but she is not the king! Christ is King of kings — signifying a KINGSHIP COMPANY.
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. Isa 62:5
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But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12,13
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Rev 1:6
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Rev 5:10 (Neither does the bride nor the guests reign)
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Rev 20:6
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