Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

[Hidden In Him]

Edit: Oopsie! Just realized I already created a thread on this parable here at this forum in May (My bad, LoL.)

For anyone who would still like to respond, please feel free, but the original thread is here:
Parable Of The Unmerciful Servant

Apologies for the mix up.
Hidden In Him
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I'm preparing to do some work on this, and I would like a breakdown of this parable, symbol for symbol. To those who respond, please give me your interpretations of exactly what or who the following symbols represent: The king, the servant, his debt, and his punishment.

Blessings in advance to all who respond.

Then, having come, Peter said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I say unto you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven. Because of this, the kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a king who wanted to take account of his servants. And having begun to settle accounts, there was brought to him one who owed him ten thousand talents. And because he did not have enough to repay, the master ordered him and his wife and children and all that he had to be sold, so as to be repaid. Therefore, having fallen down, the slave was worshipping him, saying, "Have patience with me, and I will repay it all to you." And having been moved with compassion, the master of the slave released him and forgave him the loan. But having gone out, the slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii. And, having seized him, he was choking him, saying, "If you owe something, pay it!" Therefore, having fallen down, his fellow slave implored him, saying, "Have patience with me, and I will repay it all to you." But the man would not do so, and went and cast him into prison until he should repay what was owed. Therefore, his fellow slaves, having seen what took place, were greatly grieved, and going to their master, narrated unto him all that took place. Then, the master, having called him said unto him, "Wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt since you pleaded with me. Ought you not to have had pity on your fellow slave, as I also had pity on you?" And, being made angry, his master delivered him unto the torturers until he should repay everything that was owed. So also will My Father in Heaven do to you if you do not forgive from your hearts each man his brother." (Matthew 18:21-35)

 

[Jay Ross]

I will start the symbol for a symbol with the first link: Matt. 18:21-22 - Daniel 9:24

In Dan. 9:24 God was saying that Israel was going to be given a period of 490 years to repent of their iniquities, predominately idolatrous worship and return to Him. Each year represented the Israelite going up to the temple to offer up a Sin Sacrifice for their sins of the previous year.

Why was only 490 years set aside for Israel to repent? Because at the end of the 490 years, at the beginning of third age of the existence of the nation of Israel God was intending to modify the means of gaining redemption through a very different sacrificial system.

Dan. 9:24: -

"Seventy weeks {of years, i.e. 490 years} are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,

To/After which I will make {a new way of} reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in/For everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.
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This then leads in what is to happen after the 490 years have been fulfilled which leads into Dan.9:26b.

After the 490 years allotted to finish their iniquities and the establishment of the new way to gain reconciliation for sin, the Temple and the Temple Priests were no longer required for the yearly sacrifice for sin as was required under the Mosaic Covenant and it was destroyed for all time.

In Ex. 20:4-6 God warned Israel of the consequences of Idolatrous worship and that the fathers of Israel would partake in idolatrous worship during the first two ages of their existence and that during the next two ages of the existence of their children and their children's children that the consequences of the father's iniquities would be visited upon their descendants. This visitation of the iniquities of the fathers upon their descendants meant that the nation of Israel was scattered to the four corners of the earth and that they would be hounded and killed until the end of the allotted time of the Ex. 20:4-6 is fulfilled.

The time span for Dan. 9:26b is found in the verse itself. "Until the end of the war," which begs the question as to what war is being spoken about. My understanding is that this was is in heaven and the end of this war is when Satan and his fallen angels are kicked out of heaven.

That is when this parable commences, and that is the story that will be picked up later.

Shalom

This is the lens that the parable that follows should be understood through.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I will start the symbol for a symbol with the first link: Matt. 18:21-22 - Daniel 9:24

In Dan. 9:24 God was saying that Israel was going to be given a period of 490 years to repent of their iniquities, predominately idolatrous worship and return to Him. Each year represented the Israelite going up to the temple to offer up a Sin Sacrifice for their sins of the previous year.

Why was only 490 years set aside for Israel to repent? Because at the end of the 490 years, at the beginning of third age of the existence of the nation of Israel God was intending to modify the means of gaining redemption through a very different sacrificial system.

Dan. 9:24: -

"Seventy weeks {of years, i.e. 490 years} are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,

To/After which I will make {a new way of} reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in/For everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.
​

This then leads in what is to happen after the 490 years have been fulfilled which leads into Dan.9:26b.

After the 490 years allotted to finish their iniquities and the establishment of the new way to gain reconciliation for sin, the Temple and the Temple Priests were no longer required for the yearly sacrifice for sin as was required under the Mosaic Covenant and it was destroyed for all time.

In Ex. 20:4-6 God warned Israel of the consequences of Idolatrous worship and that the fathers of Israel would partake in idolatrous worship during the first two ages of their existence and that during the next two ages of the existence of their children and their children's children that the consequences of the father's iniquities would be visited upon their descendants. This visitation of the iniquities of the fathers upon their descendants meant that the nation of Israel was scattered to the four corners of the earth and that they would be hounded and killed until the end of the allotted time of the Ex. 20:4-6 is fulfilled.

The time span for Dan. 9:26b is found in the verse itself. "Until the end of the war," which begs the question as to what war is being spoken about. My understanding is that this was is in heaven and the end of this war is when Satan and his fallen angels are kicked out of heaven.

That is when this parable commences, and that is the story that will be picked up later.

Shalom

This is the lens that the parable that follows should be understood through.

Alright. Post your interpretation of the symbols I was asking about. I'll read it. I have to say at the outset that the above is, on first glance anyway, beyond the scope of what the parable is actually addressing, but I'll take a look just the same.

Blessings in Christ.

 

[Jay Ross]

Alright. Post your interpretation of the symbols I was asking about. I'll read it. I have to say at the outset that the above is, on first glance anyway, beyond the scope of what the parable is actually addressing, but I'll take a look just the same.

Blessings in Christ.

You could be right, but the understanding that if Israel who is forgiven much in our near future, then goes out and will not forgive his brother/neighbour for a much smaller debt, then the king will then not forget the servant who he had forgiven his debt of because the servant would not forgive another for what was owed to him.

Israel was to be God's servant in the salvation process for the whole earth. The if Israel will not forgive the God will not forgive Israel.

Seems pretty simple but it is the way of God in heaven.

Shalom