Wrong king

Unfolding Light · Oct 7, 2026 · 1m

The king was enraged. He sent his troops,

destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

He noticed a man at the wedding

who was not wearing a wedding robe,

and he said , “Bind him hand and foot,

and throw him into the outer darkness

where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

—from Matthew 22.1-14

Nice king, huh?

Notice how in Jesus’ parables

we think of powerful people as God—

and then figure out how to live

with that kind of divine tyrant.

But Jesus is the Prince of Peace,

not not the master of vengeance.

Jesus looks more like the one thrown out.

Despised and rejected by…