But when the king came in to view the guests, he looked intently at a man there who had on no wedding garment. Matthew 22:11
Remember in this parable that the King is God. Revelation 20:11 shows us our Father coming to the Marriage Supper of the Bride.
Then I saw a great white throne and the One Who was seated upon it, from Whose presence and from the sight of Whose face earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
When our Father comes to the Marriage Supper, every human that was ever born will be there. The dead are raised up to be here with Him and all of us who are alive are with Him. This is why Jesus told us that the room was filled with both good and bad.
I [also] saw the dead, great and small; they stood before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged (sentenced) by what they had done [their whole way of feeling and acting, their aims and endeavors] in accordance with what was recorded in the books. And the sea delivered up the dead who were in it, death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) surrendered the dead in them, and all were tried and their cases determined by what they had done [according to their motives, aims, and works]. Revelation 20:12-13
Notice here in Revelation that we are told that only the dead are judged, not that the living are judged. We are also shown that that the Bride is not judged here; we are only shown that the dead are judged. I want you to ask yourself this question, why does our Father raise up the dead souls and reunite them with their bodies? Ask yourself this as well, is our Father the same yesterday, today, and forever? How many times does Jesus teach us to forgive? Did Jesus set the captives free from Hades when He went there for the 3 days following His crucifixion?
The answers all have to deal with the guests. Jesus forgave those in Hades when He went there and He set them free, 1 Peter 3. These souls that we are shown in Revelation 20 are raised and reunited to be with their bodies to be our guests for eternity. Our Father never changes and He tells us to forgive 70 times 7 times. We pray in the Lord's prayer to forgive and that is what is done here when these people are raised up. All of peoples sin's shall be forgiven them except one, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 12:31.
There is a Lake of Fire, a Hell, and we will be shown in the next verses that at least one person will be thrown into it. So at least one person will commit this unforgivable sin of Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. But for the rest of the guests who don't commit the only unforgivable sin, their sins shall be forgiven them and they will be blessed for eternity as our Wedding guests!
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