Matthew 22.1-14
The king represents God. The servants who are dispatched first are the prophets; those dispatched second are the apostles and martyrs. The message they carry invites guests to come to a wedding feast. This is ignored by some while others respond violently, first attacking then murdering the messengers. The king raises the town to the ground where these ungrateful guests live as Jerusalem is sacked in AD70. Then the king invites anybody and everybody to the feast just as all are invited into the Church.
When the feast gets underway the king is critical of a guest not wearing wedding garments. These would have been provided so this guest is judges for refusing to wear what was offered.
They represent baptism and confirmation or possibly holiness and righteousness. "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord...for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation" (Isaiah 61.10).
Lord Jesus thank you for inviting me to the wedding banquet of your Son. Thank you for choosing me to be a disciple. I praise your holy name for the gift of baptism which is such a powerful work of grace in our lives that the devil does not dare look at us because he sees the light blazing from your head and blinding his eyes.
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