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Parable
#18 - “The Vineyard Labourers”
Matthew
21:33-36,37-40,41-44,45;
Mark 12:1-4,5-8,9-12;
Luke 20:9-12,13-16,17-19
The
10th of the 13 kingdom of heaven
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.
CHRIST’S
REASONS FOR USING PARABLES
1.
To illustrate a
truth by
something that is
already familiar
to the hearers. To
make known mysteries by comparing with things
already known
2.
They impart
instruction
and rebuke
without causing offence
(the poor man’s lamb 2 Samuel 12:1-4,5-7)
3.
They reveal
a
truth
in
an interesting form, and create
more interest
and hunger
for further information
(Matthew 13:10-13,14-17)
4.
The symbolism of the
stories is always
true and
the points illustrated are not false or absurd
5.
The historical
background and the
circumstances and occasion when uttered must be understood
6.
Their words and
details must be defined literally
not spiritually
7.
The principles of interpretation
are given by Jesus
himself. and any interpretation at variance with these principles and
with the
purpose of the parable, is unscriptural and illegal.
8.
Conceal a truth from the disinterested
and the rebels at heart
EXPLANATION
OF THE PARABLE:
“THE
VINEYARD LABOURERS”
Matthew
21:33-36,37-40,41-44,45-46
1.
There was a certain householder = God the
Father
2.
which planted a vineyard = Israel (Isaiah
1:8; Jeremiah 12:10)
3.
and hedged it round about = with Jesus
Christ … if only Israel would come under his protection of his
fulfilling the
law
4.
and digged a winepress in it = with Jesus
Christ … the new wine that would come with Christ (Matthew 9:17)
5.
and built a tower = with Jesus Christ is
the tower that men should run into (Proverbs 18:10). The Tower of Babel
was the
false tower that men built (Genesis 11:4). Of course Christ is the Rock
as well
as the tower (Deuteronomy 32:4; 1 Corinthians 10:4)
6.
and let it out to husbandmen = those
under the works of the kingdom of heaven rules … indeed even the
kingdom of God
and the time of seven year tribulation
7.
and went into a far country = Jesus
Christ went back to heaven to sit on the right hand of God the Father
(Hebrew
1:3; 1:13; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2)
8.
And when the time of the fruit drew near
= fruits from their own spiritual labour … there was no fruit (Luke
13:7) … a
fig tree without fruit (Matthew 21:19-20)
9.
he sent his servants = the prophets in
the Old Testament
10.
to the husbandmen = those under the
works of the kingdom of heaven rules … including the Pharisees,
Sadducees and
the elders of Israel
11.
that they might receive the fruits of it
= spiritual fruits
12.
So God sends a series of prophets =
(Amos 3:7; Psalm 105:15)
13.
And the husbandmen took his servants =
Old Testament prophets … everyone of them
14.
and beat one = 1 Kings 22:24
15.
and killed another = Jeremiah 26:23
19.
But when the husbandmen = the Pharisees,
Sadducees and elders of Israel
20.
saw the son, they said among themselves,
This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on
his
inheritance = Jesus Christ
21.
And they caught him, and cast him out of the
vineyard, and slew him = outside the walls of Jerusalem
(John 19:20;
Luke 23:33; Hebrews 13:12-13)
22.
When the lord therefore of the vineyard
cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? = the return of the
Lord
Jesus Christ (Revelation 19)
23.
They say unto him, He will miserably destroy
those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other
husbandmen,
which shall render him the fruits in their seasons = Christians under
the
kingdom of God
24.
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in
the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the
same is
become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it
is
marvellous in our eyes? = that is Christ is the cornerstone now (Psalm
118:22;
Isaiah 28:16; Acts 4:11).
25.
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God
shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing
forth the
fruits thereof = the Gentiles Romans 10:19; Romans 11:11;
26.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall
be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder = (Daniel
2:35; Luke 20:18)
27.
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had
heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them =
Christ knows
all men (John 2:25)
28.
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they
feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet = They
awaited
their time to capture Christ and crucify him … But only the time when
God
was ready (John 7:6)
IT’S
A FREE WILL CHOICE.
BE
NOT MISTAKEN …
“For as
many as are of the works of the law are under
the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth
not
in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. …. Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse
for us:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:”
(Galatians 3:10,13).
Dear
Reader will you believe the following…
“Thank you
Jesus for becoming a curse for me
and saving me from God’s wrath of hell fire.
Thank you
I have eternal salvation and will be
with you in heaven forever. Thank you for paying God for my debt of
sins.
I have now
been washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Amen.”
October 2023
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Parable
#19 –
“INVITATION
TO A WEDDING”
READ Matthew 22:2-5,6-9,10-13,14
The
11th of the 13 kingdom of heaven
parables
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