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Luke 14:17-23 Display Chapter and Footnotes ¹⁷ And he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.' ¹⁸ But they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land, and I must go and see it. I beg you to excuse me.' ¹⁹ Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I beg you to excuse me.' ²⁰ And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' ²¹ So the servant came and reported these things to his lord. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and the crippled and the lame and the blind.' ²² And the servant said, 'Lord, it has been done as you have commanded, and still there is room.' ²³ Then the lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.² Display Chapter and Footnotes

Luke 14:17-23

¹⁷ And he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'

¹⁸ But they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land, and I must go and see it. I beg you to excuse me.'

¹⁹ Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I beg you to excuse me.'

²⁰ And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

²¹ So the servant came and reported these things to his lord. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and the crippled and the lame and the blind.'

²² And the servant said, 'Lord, it has been done as you have commanded, and still there is room.'

²³ Then the lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.²

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² Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled. The guests of the great supper (like the wedding supper in the Kingdom of God) are filled from three events:

First, those who were invited — The feast in the Kingdom of God was long expected by the religious Jews; but most were too busy with their religious rituals, ceremonies, ordinances, and sacrifices, to come. Most rejected Jesus.
Second, the blind, (those who knew they could not spiritually see clearly); the lame, (those who could not walk in the light or spirit); and the poor, (those poor in spirit), were the Jews and the Gentiles, (in the great streets and small streets), whom Christ preached to: he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach release to the captives [of sin], and recovery of sight to the blind, to deliver [free] those who are oppressed [by sin], Luke 4:18-19. Those heard, who knew they were not righteous, who knew they were blind, who knew they were poor.

From the Word of the Lord within:

People can't come in fear; they have to come in love.
Most people go through life never needing, never seeking a lasting solution.
No man can come to me unless he has had a life-shattering experience.
He cannot teach us unless we are fully aware of the stings.

The Lord has always put stings in the lives of men and fostered life-shattering experiences on individuals to cause them to look for a lasting solution — Him, the only lasting solution.

And last, compel those on the highways and in the hedges to come in.
William Penn writes of forced repentances in the next life, (Hell), for those who do not repent through the cross in this life. God only indirectly forces our repentance. He gives everyone the desires of their heart. He places us in darkness without His restraining influence so that we indulge in our heart's desires, (in a dream state) to the point that we become satiated with them and they become burdensome, unpleasant, and finally horribly oppressive — so horrible that we desperately choose to repent out of them.

Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early and diligently, but they shall not find me.
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
They would accept none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof,
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be satiated with their own desires.
For the turning away [from my counsel ] of the ignorant shall slay them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them. Pro 1:28-32

In Hell all criticisms of anyone or actions causing pain to anyone are replayed with you feeling the emotional and/or physical pain that you caused those to feel, (afterwards you are relieved, so the pain is not permanent). In this way you learn to hate the mistakes you made when on earth, resolving to never repeat those behaviors again; and as you learn to hate evil, you are drawn to goodness, which is being drawn to God. Thus, we learn from all our mistakes made while on earth.

In the end, the great supper will be filled.

And on this mountain the LORD of hosts will make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
And on this mountain he will destroy the covering of the face that is cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it. Isaiah 25:6-8

From the Word of the Lord within:
- All must come to a knowledge of God.
- Christ died so that all men of the earth shall arise.
- God will light everyone.
- The righteousness of God will be revealed to all men.
- All will be forgiven in the end.
- All flesh shall see the salvation of God.
- Every tongue will witness Jesus Christ as Lord. (to witness means to testify that they have experienced Him to be their ruling Lord)
- He will rule every man.
- All the people shall be governed.
- There are no failures in the next life, only people getting better.
Those who do not die to self through the cross while on earth, go through forced repentance until they are under control and governed by the Lord, (therefore He is truly their Lord), but they: a) are not kings and priests, b) do not live in the higher dimension of the inner court where the kings and priests dwell, c) will live forever in the lower dimension while fully aware of the higher dimension, d) will regret forever that they wasted their time on the earth in foolish pursuits, and e) forever suffer that regret plus the deprivation of the higher dimension.

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