THE
PARABLES OF CHRIST
“Are
there 40 or 41 recorded parables?”
“Are
there 27 or 28 recorded general parables?”
“Are
there 12 or 13 recorded kingdom of heaven parables?”
Why
is there a ‘seeming’ inconsistency?
Using
The King James Bible English gematria to find
hidden meaning and relationships is between words and phrases …
ALL
ARE
CORRECT!
If
there are 41, this
destroys the neat pattern. But does it?
If
there are 40, that’s OK as 38 + 2 =
40 with 38 = 19 x 2 with 19 being the time of judgment and 2 being the
number
of Christ.
If
there are 41, that’s OK too as 41 =
38 + 3 with #3 being number of God.
If
there are 28,
that’s good too, as 28 = 4 x 7
= 2 x 2 x 7 which are also a unique combination of numbers with 2 being
Christ
as the 2nd person of the Godhead, and 2 x 2 representing a ‘double’
Christ as
it were, and 7 being the perfect number of God.
Or
did he? No, he had
13 apostles with Matthias replacing Judas.
So
it would make sense
also if there were 13 kingdom of heaven parables after all.
So
it would not be out
of place to have 13 kingdom of heaven parables with the ‘hidden’ one
being that of the Scribe-Householder (Matthew 13:52).
We
note that 4 x 13 =
52, that is with 4 = 2 x 2 with Christ being the 2nd in the Godhead and
2 x 2
representing a ‘double’ Christ as it were, and 13 being the number of
apostles
of Christ … not counting Paul as the 14th as he was born out of due
time.
The
chapter number being
13 would represent the 13 kingdom of heaven parables.
If
we accept that the
8th of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables is hidden (Matthew
13:52), then
there are only 12 kingdom of heaven parables … which is what is
generally
accepted.
If
the are only 12 kingdom
of heaven parables then the status quo of 40 parables remains.
Q1:
Was
Christ God or man?
How could he be both at the same time as the Son of God and the Son of
man?
Answer? He
just was!
Q2:
How
can light be described as particle
form and wave form at the same time?
Answer?
No one can explain this … it
just is!
Q3:
“Do
we follow Christ or Paul?”
Answer:
Both!
We follow Paul … and yes we
follow Christ as Paul follows Christ! How can this be possible? How can
we
follow both?
Q4.
If
my sins have been washed away
(Rev 1:5) and if he that is saved doesn’t sin anymore (1 John 3:6;5:8), I
mustn’t be saved because I am still sinning!”
Q5:
How can David be the
son of Christ yet at the same time be his father?
“David therefore calleth him
Lord, how is he
then his son?” (Luke 20:44)
Q6:
How
can the Old Testament and the New Testament be both correct when they
are
clearly different?
Q7:
How can the Old Testament saints have eternal salvation when they
clearly
didn’t?
…
these questions and hundreds of
others.
So
Dear Reader, there it is …
How
can 40 equal 41? … they just
are!
How
can 27 equal 28? … they just
are!
How
can 12 equal 13? … they just
are!
Harley
Hitchcock
October
2023
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com