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Spoke 22
Matthew 22  Song of Songs
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Matthew 22 (vss. 1f)
The divine integration of Matthew 22 with Spoke 22 of the Bible Wheel is based largely on the
the apocalyptic parable of the Marriage of the King's Son with which it opens.
Its thematic unity with the Marriage of the Lamb metaphorically prophesied in the
Song of Solomon and accomplished in the Book of Revelation is impossible to miss.
These are primary themes of Spoke 22 of the Bible Wheel, manifested here on Spoke 22 of the Inner Cycle of Matthew's Gospel.
Ultimately, this is a manifestation of the great theme of the
Consummation
of Creation that characterizes Spoke 22, the final Spoke of the Wheel. We see this in
the common theme of the Bride of Christ found in all
three books from Spoke 22:
| Song of Solomon: | The Marriage Song, when a
King receives his bride. This is the most physical manifestation of
the theme.
| | Acts: | The Birth of the Church, the Bride of
Christ.
| | Revelation: | The Marriage of the Lamb, when Christ receives His
bride. |
Thus, we have this strong thematic link connecting the Inner Wheel of Matthew with Spoke 22 of the
Bible Wheel:
| Spoke 22 Thematic Links: The Marriage of the Lamb |
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Matthew 22
Book 22
Book 66 |
The first 14 verses of Matthew 22 are dedicated to the Marriage Parable. Shortly thereafter, another
11 verses are concerned with the combined themes of
Marriage and Resurrection, both of which also
dominate Spoke 22. This means that over half of the verses in Matthew 22 are concerned
with these two fundamental themes that dominate Spoke 22 of the bwheel.
Yet this is but the beginning of wonder. There is a tremendous correlation between Matthew 22 and
the Book of Revelation. The common elements are astounding. They both represent the
consummation of the age in the image of a great marriage supper.
They include the call to the marriage supper, the need for the wedding garment, the slaying of
the saints and the final judgment of those who reject God. In fact, there is a KeyLink
between Matthew 22 and Revelation based on the
set (come, marriage, ready) [Verify].
Searching the entire KJV Bible for all verses that contain this set yields
Matthew 22 (vs. 4) and Revelation (vs. 19.7), both of which are quoted in the text below. Here is
a representation of this KeyLink, using modnotation:
| KeyLink: Come to the Marriage of the Lamb! | | PMatthew( 221 )PBible( 223 ) |
Here then is a verse by verse comparison between Matthew 22.1-13 with selections from
the Book of Revelation.
| Matthew 22 | Book 223 (Revelation) |
| [2] The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a
marriage for his son,
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[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. [9] And he saith unto me, Write,
Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
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| [3-4] And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding:
and they would not come. Again, 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.
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[19.17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together
unto the supper of the great God;
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| [5-6] But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to
his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and
entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
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[18.3] For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and
the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. ... [18.24] And in her was found the
blood of prophets, and of saints, and of
all that were slain upon the earth.
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| [7] But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those
murderers, and burned up their city.
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[19.14-15] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in
fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it
he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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| [11-12] And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on
a wedding garment:
And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
And he was speechless.
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[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
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| [vs. 13] Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and
cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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[19.20-21] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped
his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the
remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out
of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
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Although there are many
verses I could have quoted from Revelation, I have chosen the majority from Revelation 19
which speaks specifically of the Marriage of the Lamb, which shows how strongly apocalyptic
the Marriage imagery is. The meaning of Revelation 19 and its relation
to Spoke 19 is discussed in the article called
The Judgment of the Great Whore and related
articles. Ths is an example of the challenge presented by the infinite detail fo the
Wheel. We must always keep an eye on the level we are observing, whether we a looking at the
Bible Wheel or a wheel within the wheel. In this case, we begin with the links between the Inner Wheel of
Matthew and Spoke 22 of the Bible Wheel, but we then are moved to Spoke 19 when we look more closely at
the Inner Wheel of Revelation. The move is quite logical - there links are based on the ideas of the
flesh, and of Eve, the mother of us all who is
the ultimate type of the Church, the Bride of Christ.
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