Category:Closed Door Parable

Luke 13:24 - 13:30

13:24. “Strive to enter by the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able.

Shall seek, etc. . .Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking sufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to it.



13:25. “But when the Master of the house shall have gone in and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us.' He shall answer to you, 'I do not know you or where you are from.

13:26. “Then you shall begin to say, 'We have eaten and drunk in Your presence, and You have taught in our streets.'

'''13:27. “He shall say to you, 'I do not know you or where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.

13:28. “There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out

Gnashing of teeth...the term describes facial movements that usually accompany those who are both in anguish and rage at the same time, which also matches the description of those who have rejected God to follow after their own desires and do no enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Grinding of teeth is only done in anguish that is not accompanied by hatred.

13:29. “while people come from the East, the West, the North, and the South and sit down in the kingdom of God.

13:30. “Behold, those who are last shall be first, and those who are first shall be last.”

(cf. Matthew 25:10 - 25:12) '''25:10. “Now while they went to buy the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. The door was shut.'''

25:11. “But at last the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'

25:12. “But he answered, 'Amen I say to you, I do not know you.'