Okay, so who are the guests?
the bad and the good?
The rest of that Matthew 22 wedding supper passage shows that the unrighteous will be removed from the wedding supper, and cast into hell - and disproves OSAS, too.
Pure white raiment (robes) are the righteousness of saints, and become part of their wedding attire, as shown by the other wedding supper account in Revelation 19:
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted
that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Rev 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Believers get white robes of righteousness, but can defile their robes - if they defile their robes, they’ve defiled their righteousness.
Most of those in the church at Sardis had defiled their white robes:
Rev 3:4 Thou hast
a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Rev 3:5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Names are blotted out of the book of life, if we fail to overcome, Jesus warns.
Jesus also warned a church in Revelation
that many of them had not just soiled their robes, but had lost them completely, and were naked.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;
and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;
and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
The man at the wedding supper in Matthew 22 had lost his white raiment (which is the righteousness of saints) - and was speechless and shocked, because like those in Revelation 3:17-18, he thought he was clothed, but was naked - and Jesus threw him out of the wedding supper of the lamb, and into outer darkness (hell):
Mat 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests,
he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Mat 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend,
how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13 Then said the king to the servants,
Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast himinto outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (hell)
How is it that those in Revelation 3:17-18
were naked, but thought they were clothed?
They obviously did something to defile their garments, that they mistakenly thought was ok with God.
In other words, they believed they could live a sinful life, and remain in Christ.
They were deceived by OSAS into thinking grace was a license to sin, with no eternal consequences, despite Paul’s many warnings to the brethren, to not be deceived.
And the naked guest in Matthew 22 was in the same sad situation.
Shalom Aleichem
