What does the parable of the mustard seed mean? Had Jesus decribed the Big Bang 2000 years before modern man even thought of it?
Matthew 13:31-32 Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”
In other words - The "kingdom of heaven" is like a mustard seed, (The singularity, the tiny seed that was to grow into the universe). When the mustard seed was planted it began to grow rapidly and exploded in a "Big Bang". It continued to grow (expand) into the mature universe (God's "kingdom of heaven"). A place where life can exist when the right conditions prevail. There are probably millions of habitable planets where life can flourish (perch on its branches) in God's kingdom.
When Jesus described the God's "kingdom of heaven" in the parable of the mustard seed was he actually describing the the birth of the universe? The Big Bang started from the smallest of seeds (the singularity) and expanded (grew) outward into God's "kingdom of heaven" (the full feldged mature universe). He described this event 2000 years before anyone had the slightest inkling that an event such as this had occured - the birth of the universe. From this parable we can surmise that God's kingdom of heaven is actually the whole universe. It was something that Jesus knew about and told mankind but it took mankind 2000 years to figure out what this prophetic parable meant. How did Jesus know this?? Is this further proof of Jesus's divinity??
In Jesus's lifetime on earth mankind thought that the stars in the night sky were a giant bowl of lights flickering over the earth as the sun and moon orbited around the stationary Earth.
It took mankind 2000 years to invent the telescope and spectrograph and develop these instruments sufficiently to enable mankind to discover that there are actually islands of stars (galaxies) all speeding away from a central area (expanding outward). The scientists finally came up with the theory that looking back in time the galaxies must have at one time began in a very small area the size of a mustard seed and had exploded outward in a Big Bang that created the Kingdom of God - the universe. Donald Hamilton