Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-03
Golden Text: 500 We into the high
ways and hedges and compel them
to come in" Luke, 1873.

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| to come In" Luke, 14:23.
On Monday morning Jesus came
back into the city and to the tenn
pie and taught. On His way, hav-
| ing had no breakfast, He was hun
cry and saw a fig tree in full leaf
indicating that it was in fruit also,
even though it was too early for
fruit. But finding no fruit on it,
He caused it to wither away. 1t
did not live I'D to it's professions.
It was a type of the Jewish nation
at that time. ct Is also type OF
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Coming into the temple. He
taught. His authority was ques-
toned by the rulers, but He refused
to give His authority to them, for
they showed by their cowardice and
unwillingness to answer HIS cues
right to demand His authority. The
nation through their leaders had re-
jected Him as their king the day be-
fore, even though He had presented
Himself in the way and on the very
day that the prophets had foretold,
and now He is rejecting them. Mon
day and Tuesday were filled with
conflicts between Him and them
and in each encounter they were
routed while He was victorious.
In his account of it, Matthew fol-
lows this with the parable of the
pride Of the Jews by showing them
that the taxgatherers and the har-
lots whom they thought two low to
notice, would go into the Kingdom
of God before them. And then with
show them that the Kingdom would
be taken from them and given to a
nation bringing forth the fruits of
righteousness; illustrating the truth
of the scriptures that He, the stone
come the head of the corner. He
told them that whosoever should fall
on it would be destroyed and on
whomsoever it should fall would be
ground to powder. The first. part of
that has been absolutely fulfilled
and in a few years was scattered
and disintegrated. Remarkable peo-
pie that they are. the most remark
able thing now about the. Jews is
the fact that though a distinct PEG
Of a nation. They fell on the Stone
and were scattered.
The Marriage Feast
Then Jesus told. them the parable
of the marriage feast 81, A king rgi . In a.
feast Of his son. True to Oriental
custom, when the time for the feast
arrives he sends his servants out
to announce to the invited guests
that the feast is ready and they are
in it's festivities. But the astonish-
ing thing is that the invited guests
don't seem to care a rap for the
feast. 1t would seem that just the
contrary would have been true. for
wedding feast given by the - KING IN
| hast that he had However, they
ali treated it with Contemplating
| preferred their farming, their mer-
| chandise. their own interests better.
| others were not merely indifferent
-taht was bad enough-they were
antagonistic, and did violence to the
| kings servants who had brought the
notice from the king. So when the
| king heard it he was indignant. Out
of the kindness of his heart and with
| the purpose of honoring his son and
giving his subjects a good time, he
had gone to great pains and expense
| and to be treated in this way was
outrageous. So he sent his. soldiers
to punish these nngrateful guests
and destroy their city. ,o,
: How those Jews must nave winced
under those screening words OF Je-
sus! They knew full we'll of whom
He was speaking, for they were fol-
lowing in the footsteps. of their ia
theirs who had s?urned Gods gra,
| IHNlIdLlOlIS IllllC anu oeNlAAS CAV
had prosecuted His prophets; even
now they were planning the death OF
this man who spoke as never man
spoke before. But they did not know
how true and how dreadful His is
later the armies Of the king Gfol
God sometimes uses as wicked q
man and nation as Titus and Romeo
came; over a million Jews lost their
lives, under II were sold into slav,
cry, many others taken to Rome tc
form the triumphal procession OF
Titus and then cast into the arena
later; and practically all were scat
tered. Their city was destroyed sc
that one could scarcely realize thai
city had ever been there. 1t was
the result of spurning Gods invita-,
ton and rejecting His son.
| Go Slowly
But that was not all of Jesus
story. When the king found that the
invited guests were unworthy. he or
dered his servants to go out into
the highways, and as many as they
should find. constrain them to come
in that his house might be filled
with guests. SO they went and