THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD

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Doug

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[Matthew 21:33 KJV] 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

The parables conveyed teachings about the Davidic earthly millennial kingdom. The theme of this parable is the delayed return of Jesus; the householder "went into a far country" illustrates this.

[Mat 21:34 KJV] 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

Believing Israel was to bear fruit.......[Mat 3:10 KJV] 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

[Mat 21:35 KJV] 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Israel killed the prophets sent to them...........[Mat 23:31 KJV] 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

[Mat 21:37-39 KJV] 37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. 39 And they caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him].

It is evident Jesus was speaking of his death. Jesus was "cast out of the vineyard"; Hebrews speaks of Jesus suffering without the gate, and Israel was to go unto Jesus without the camp.............[Heb 13:11-13 KJV] 11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

[Mat 21:40-41 KJV] 40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 41 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.

Jesus was saying that the vineyard would be let out to those who shall render fruits.

[Mat 21:42-43 KJV] 42 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? 43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Jesus said clearly that the kingdom of God, the millennial kingdom, would be taken from unbelieving Israel, and given to a nation bearing fruit; the nation that will receive the kingdom is the believing remnant of Israel, the believing nation. The remnant believed Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; "the stone which the builders rejected".
 

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Jesus was saying that the vineyard would be let out to those who shall render fruits.

[Mat 21:42-43 KJV] 42 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? 43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Jesus said clearly that the kingdom of God, the millennial kingdom, would be taken from unbelieving Israel, and given to a nation bearing fruit; the nation that will receive the kingdom is the believing remnant of Israel, the believing nation. The remnant believed Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; "the stone which the builders rejected".

Doug, you should check out Isaiah 5, for that is where God defined who His vineyard represented. And Lord Jesus is pointing to those Isaiah 5 identities in His parable. (This is why a thorough study in The Old Testament Books is important in helping to better understand some things written in The New Testament.)

Isa 5:1-7
5 Now will I sing to My wellbeloved a song of My beloved touching His vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and He looked that it should bring forth grapes,
and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?


The idea of "wild grapes" means poison berries in the Hebrew.

5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant: and He looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
KJV


By that time, in Isaiah's day, God had already split old Israel into two separate kingdoms, and had removed all the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel", ALSO CALLED "the house of Israel".

Thus in Lord Jesus' parable, the "house of Israel" represents ONLY the ten lost tribes of Israel. And in Matt.15:24 Jesus had said that He was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel (ten tribes). They would receive The Gospel in new lands of their scattering, and become the western Christian nations, fulfilling the Gen.48 prophecy to Ephraim that his seed would become "a multitude of nations".
 

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Thus the parable of the vineyard...

Matt 21:33-43
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:


The "householder" that planted the vineyard is about The LORD. The "husbandmen" He let it out to is Judah, the royal tribe.

34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.


God first sent His prophets to gather the symbolic fruit of His vineyard, but the husbandmen killed them.

36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.


So God sent more of His prophets, but the husbandmen killed those also.

37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.'


Then God considered to send them His Son, that surely they wouldn't kill Him (Lord Jesus).

38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance."
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.


Those particular husbandmen were influenced by the crept in unawares of Jude 4. They were made up of the Canaanites, Kenites which Israel failed to destroy per God's commandment of Deut.20. They instead crept in especially among Judah, and became religious leaders and scribes that wanted to murder Jesus. Not all of them, but the ones in particular that were behind getting Lord Jesus crucified (see John 8).


40 "When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?"

41 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."

42 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?'

43 Therefore say I unto you,
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
KJV


Per Isaiah 5,
the "vineyard" = the ten tribe "house of Israel"
the "husbandmen" = Judah, the pleasant plant (along with the crept in unawares amongst them)

The "nation" that would thus bring forth the fruits is about the 'other' Israel, spiritual Israel, Christ's Church which was initially formed by the scattered ten tribe "house of Israel" in new lands in the West. The "fruits" is about The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
 

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Doug, you should check out Isaiah 5, for that is where God defined who His vineyard represented. And Lord Jesus is pointing to those Isaiah 5 identities in His parable. (This is why a thorough study in The Old Testament Books is important in helping to better understand some things written in The New Testament.)

Isa 5:1-7
5 Now will I sing to My wellbeloved a song of My beloved touching His vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and He looked that it should bring forth grapes,
and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?


The idea of "wild grapes" means poison berries in the Hebrew.

5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.


7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant: and He looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
KJV


By that time, in Isaiah's day, God had already split old Israel into two separate kingdoms, and had removed all the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel", ALSO CALLED "the house of Israel".

Thus in Lord Jesus' parable, the "house of Israel" represents ONLY the ten lost tribes of Israel. And in Matt.15:24 Jesus had said that He was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel (ten tribes). They would receive The Gospel in new lands of their scattering, and become the western Christian nations, fulfilling the Gen.48 prophecy to Ephraim that his seed would become "a multitude of nations".
I dont think Isiah 5 corresponds to the parable of the vineyard

I see it corresponding to this parable...............................[Luk 13:6-9 KJV] 6 He spake also this parable; A certain [man] had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung [it]: 9 And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down.
 

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I dont think Isiah 5 corresponds to the parable of the vineyard

Oh but it does. I don't believe you have yet grasped the Biblical history of God splitting the old nation of Israel into two separate kingdoms, and how God through His prophet Hosea prophesied how He would use the ten tribe "house of Israel" in The Gospel in the "wilderness", i.e., in the new lands they were eventually scattered to. And this is why Apostle Paul pointed the Roman Gentile believers in Romans 9 to a passage in the Book of Hosea which originally was only given about and to the ten tribes.

There are TWO Israels per God's Word, not just one.

Ezek 37:22
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
KJV

God joining the two symbolic sticks back together per His example in that Ezekiel 37 chapter is about the joining of the "two nations" of Israel back into one nation in final, under that "one king" (i.e., Jesus Christ).

The "house of Judah" = (3 tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and a small remnant out of the northern ten tribes that rejected Jeroboam's calf idol worship). These are the Jews, that title derived from the name of the tribe Judah (per the Jewish historian Josephus).

The "house of Israel" = (ten tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, Gad, Dan, Zebulun, Naphtali, Asher, Reuben, Simeon, Issachar.) That title "house of Israel" applied ONLY to these ten tribes after the split of old Israel into two separate kingdoms per 1 Kings 11 forward.

Levi was to have no land inheritance, as God is their inheritance. When all the above tribes of Israel are counted, there's actually 13 tribes in total. Manasseh is counted as the 13th tribe, as his younger brother Ephraim was put over him in God's Birthright to Ephraim (Gen.48). This is why God made Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim king over the ten northern tribe kingdom, the "house of Israel".

The ten tribes were written of in the Assyrian tablets and on the Behistun Rock carved on a mountain side that still exists in modern day Iraq. The Assyrians had an Assyrian name for the ten tribes of Israel from king Omri who was one of the kings over the ten northern tribes per God's Word (1 Kings 16:16). That name for Omri, gimri, was translated to Cimmerian by linguist professor Leroy Waterman of the University of Michigan in the 1930s. The 'C' in Cimmerian is pronounced like a 'K' in English.

Anthropology has documented a lot of the history about the Cimmerian tribes that migrated westward into Asia Minor and Europe from the East. But they never bothered to look at possible connections with the migrations of the ten tribes out of Assyria and the lands of their captivity. Linked with the Cimmerians are the Scythians, which much history is written of also by ancient historians like Herodotus. Raymond E. Capt documented much of this in his book Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets.

 
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