<p>22:12&nbsp;<em>And he said to him: Friend</em>- Another element of unreality, because a King would hardly address a street person as &quot;Friend&quot;. But this is how close the King of the Universe feels to any who have at least responded to the call, even if they have to be rejected.&nbsp;The Lord foretells the spiritual culture which He will show even to the rejected, when He mentions how He will call the rejected &quot;friend&quot; (Mt. 22:12), using the same word as He used about Judas (Mt. 26:50). Vine describes it as a word meaning &quot;comrade, companion, a term of kindly address expressing comradeship&quot;. If this is how the Lord will address those who have crucified Him afresh- surely there is hope, abundant hope, for us. The suggestion is that there are Judases amongst us, although we can't identify them (and shouldn't try), just as the disciples couldn't. The evil servant who (in Christ's eyes) beat his brethren was a hypocrite, he didn't appear to men to be like that (Mt. 24:48-51); he was only cut asunder, revealed for who he was, at the judgment. He appeared to be an ecclesial elder who loved the flock. &nbsp;</p><p><em>How did you come&nbsp;in here without a wedding-garment?</em>- Obviously a rhetorical question, rather like God's question to Adam: &quot;Where are you?&quot;. The King knew. The purpose of the day of judgment is to explain to the rejected why they have been rejected- and it is this realization which is itself the punishment, for it will elicit from them weeping and gnashing of teeth in anger with themselves. Jude 12 speaks of false believers as being spots marring the love feast. There will be such persons at the breaking of bread meetings of the believers, but this parable teaches that it is the King who reveals and removes them, at the last day. It is our duty to simply gather men and women into the Kingdom, both bad and good, just as the net gathers both bad and good fish, but they are only separated from each other when the judgment sits at the last day.</p><p>Judgment day is not only for our personal education and humbling. It is for the enlightenment of us all as a community, in that there is fair evidence that in some sense the process of judgment will be public, and all the believers will see the true characteristics of those with whom they fellowshipped in this life. Thus the unworthy will be revealed as being without a wedding garment, and the faithful will see him (for the first time) as walking naked and in shame (Mt. 22:11; Rev. 16:15).</p><p><em>And he was speechless</em>- Other pictures of the rejected describe them as having plenty to say in self-justification (&quot;When did we see you...&quot;, 25:44, &quot;You are a hard man&quot;, Lk. 19:22). But in this picture, they are speechless. It's possible to put the various pictures of the judgment together and create a chronological impression of them initially knocking on the door pleading for acceptance, justifying themselves, and then being left speechless in the ultimate darkness and loneliness. Or it could be that different ones of the condemned respond in different ways, some with words, some in silence.<br />22:13&nbsp;<em>Servant</em>s<em>-&nbsp;</em>In the Lord's other parables, it's the Angels who carry out he condemnation of the rejected. But in this parable, the prophets, Angels, apostles and Christian preachers are all called &quot;servants&quot;, encouraging us to see ourselves as of equal significance and meaning in God's Kingdom plan as the other servants.</p>