“THE 41 PARABLES JESUS CHRIST”
28
general parables and 13 kingdom of heaven
parables
Parable
#24 –
“THE
ABSENT HOUSEHOLDER”
READ Mark 13:33-36,37
The
11th general parable of the 28
general parables
In
445BC, with one Bible week equating to seven years (a
prophetic
year being 360 days), God commanded that seventy weeks each of 7
years, would be determined upon Israel, that is … 70 weeks
x 7
years = 490 years (Daniel 9:24-27).
This
time frame is broken into four time periods of (a) 7 weeks
+ (b)
62 weeks + (c) the mystery church age of about
2,000 years +
(d) 1 week = 70 weeks and is explained as follows:
#1. Seven
weeks of years is 7 x 7 = 49 years … the time it takes
to restore
and build Jerusalem from 445BC to 396BC.
#2. Sixty
two weeks of years is 62 x 7 = 434 years … the time
from the
building of Jerusalem in 396BC to Christ being cut off at the cross in
32AD.
#3. The
church age of approximately 2,000 years
#4. One
week of years is 1 x 7 = 7 years … this is the seven
years of
tribulation of God’s wrath upon the earth, that takes place after the
rapture …
called Daniel’s 70th week.
THE
ABSENT HOUSEHOLDER”
Mark 13:32-35,36-37
But of that day
and that hour knoweth no man = this is
the time of seven years of the tribulation of God’s wrath upon
the earth.
Dear
Reader, the parable does not say week or
month. It will be imminent … if you are still here toward the end of
the
tribulation, you will be able to ascertain the week.
no, not
the angels which are in heaven, neither the
Son, but the Father = this is
God the Father (1 John
5:7)
Take
ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the
time is =
not the
day or the hour but you will know the week
For
the Son of man is as a man taking a far
journey, who left his house =
this is
Christ after the resurrection ascending bodily into heaven … leaving
his
earthly house and physical body as we know it, but having another type
of
physical body to enter heaven … demonstrated by his entering through
the walls
of the upper room; Thomas being asked to touch Christ’s hand and also
by Christ
eating some food (John 20:19-22,23-26,27-30)
and
gave authority to his servants, and to every
man his work =
the seven
year tribulation will be a time of works and perseverance to the end
Watch ye
therefore: for ye know not when the master
of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or
in the
morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping = although
this parable is about the Jewish dispensation of Daniel’s 70th
week, today’s application would be the rapture of Christians. This is
also a
reference to the five foolish virgins (Matthew chapter 25).
And
what I say unto you I say unto all
= all those at the end of the tribulation
Watch
=
“Remember
therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent.
If
therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief,
and thou
shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.” (Revelation 3:3)
TODAY’S
APPLICATION:
The
Christian rapture and the following seven year
tribulation, the day of the Lord, will come as a thief in the night … a
complete surprise … as people will be saying “Where is the promise of
his
coming?”
“For
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” (1 Thessalonians 5:2)
“And
saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
from the
beginning of the creation.” (2 Peter 3:4)
Dear
Reader, let us wait and watch …
“But I
would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others
which have
no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you
by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of
the
Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself
shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and
with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which
are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore
comfort one
another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-16,17-18)
Harley
Hitchcock
November 2023
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
“THE
41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28
general parables and 13 kingdom of heaven
parables
Parable
#25 –
“THE
CREDITOR AND TWO DEBTORS”
Luke
7:41-43
The
12th of the 28 general parables