These Last Days Pt. 2

Last and Final Invitation

This reminds me of a story Jesus told in the bible.

Jesus said: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. ¹⁷ At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

¹⁸ “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

¹⁹ “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’

²⁰ “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

²¹ “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’

²² “‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’

²³ “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. ²⁴ I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’” Luke 14:16-24

In Matthew's account of Jesus telling the story.  The messengers are ignored and some are seized and treated shamefully and some are killed for giving the invite.  Matthew 22

The Lord has given an invitation for His salvation.  He has given his invitation for people to get to know him and join him in heaven but many people are giving excuses and putting it off like death and His coming have some kind of guidelines and can be dictated by how we feel and our schedule.   People are being careless with their soul by ignoring such invitations.   This is not the time to be too busy.  This is not the time to hope in some false hope that will only take you straight to hell.  Jesus is inviting all of humanity.  He is reaching out to us as a whole.  Please do not make excuses and be too busy for him. 

DID YOU GET YOUR INVITATION?

If people don’t come and come soon, they won’t taste the salvation that only comes in Jesus Christ.  Instead, by their choice, they will sadly be tortured in hell and the thrown into the lake of fire.   (Sometimes there is no nice way to say the truth.)

If you have not seen the 23 Minutes in Hell video-  you may want to watch it to give you a better understanding of what hell is like.  You can view it on YouTube and on this blog.

 Jesus speaking of his return said, “When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah’s day.  In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came to destroy them all. ” Luke 17:26-27

Noah had been building that boat for some 100 years!  Noah’s family probably told many people that God was going to flood the earth.   People, seeing the boat out in the middle of nowhere, probably just scoffed and disregarded him.  Just as people today will scoff and disregard the saving message of Jesus Christ and His return.

2 Peter 2:3-7 says “Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. ⁴ They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created. They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.  Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.  And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.”