“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
Parable
#10 - “HIDDEN TREASURE”
Matthew 13:44
The
5th of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables
BACKGROUND:
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.
treasure = Israel
a field = the world
(Matthew 13:38)
a man = God the
Father
hideth = Although ever-present
on the world’s stage, Israel has always been ‘hidden’ as it were, until
God brings it out into the open, having chosen it from all others, in sending
his Son to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).
In addition, Israel will also be chosen as the ‘hidden
remnant’ that will have their eyes opened in the seven years of tribulation
(Zechariah 12:10)
joy = the oil
of the gladness of God the Father anointing Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:9; Psalm
45:7). Furthermore, this is Christ’s joy set before him after the cross (Hebrews
12:2)
selleth all = God sells
all he has … that is … Jesus Christ (John 3:16)
buyeth that field = God created the world … he owns it … but God also buys the world with Christ
dying for the sins of the whole world … and this includes Israel.
APPLICATION TO CHRISTIANS
This parable has been wrongly used by the Calvinists
aka the recently named Doctrines of Grace people.
Why? Because they have little clue of the correct
dispensational meaning.
They see ‘the treasure’ as themselves … that is the
selected people in the world, where Jesus has shed his blood only for those
that will be selected by Irresistible Grace.
Dear Reader, the difference is this … Israel,
Jacob, was always the apple of God’s eye (Deuteronomy 32:10;
Lamentations 2:18; Zechariah 2:8).
The unsaved world is never mentioned in the above
terms.
October 2023
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“THE 40 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
Parable #11 -
“Pearl
of Great Price”
Matthew
13:45-46
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