What Does The Parable of the Tenants mean, in Your Opinion?

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The liturgical cast that now endorses homosexuality, the moneyed crowd that now lives in multi-million dollar homes, and the faithless crowd who is still stuck in traditionalism and habitually rejects what the Spirit is now saying to the churches. In one way or another, much of the present leadership is subject to the enemy, and they all protect their own interests at the expense of the interests of God, having shut their ears to Him.

Other parables aside, I simply do not see this as the body of Christ, and I don't know that it will be reformed, I'm thinking maybe not, but I won't mind being wrong! I think the message is more, Come out of her, lest you share in her plagues. Not that we are at that point yet.

There is high visibility of bad churches, and low visibility of good churches, is what I think.

Much love!

 

[Hidden In Him]

Israel is now comprised of the seed of Abraham :Gal 3:28, 29 and Romans 2:28. All those who love the Lord are Israel.

Do you hold out hope that a large part of natural Isreal can still be saved? Many don't, but I see that as sort of a defeatist position. I think as Christians we should all believe for others, that they will come to the Lord, and I believe the situation will change when the power of God is again made manifest in the earth. I also believe that by the time the Antichrist arrives, events will be making it so obvious that the fulfillment of Biblical (ie. New Testament) prophecies is at hand that many Jews will turn to faith in Christianity, but that's just my supposition. I don't, however, see any evidence in scripture to the contrary. The whole Historicist interpretation of Biblical prophecy is false in my opinion.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Interesting take on that parable. But I don't want to stray from the thread . . .

Much love!

I'm impressed, LoL.

Other parables aside, I simply do not see this as the body of Christ, and I don't know that it will be reformed, I'm thinking maybe not, but I won't mind being wrong! I think the message is more, Come out of her, lest you share in her plagues. Not that we are at that point yet.

I think the Catholic Church certainly is. How they can be comfortable with the fact that Satanists have not only infiltrated the Vatican but taken it over at this point is beyond me. Time to hit the exits.

 

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Time to hit the exits.

I'm anticipating that the true redeemed will come out of all the churches, leaving them to their misery, and tribulation.

Much love!

 

[Truman]

Oh, what do you know? A show I can actually relate to. (Munch, munch)

 

[Hidden In Him]

I'm anticipating that the true redeeded will come out of all the churches, leaving them to their misery, and tribulation.

Much love!

Here is how modern prophecy says it is going to go, and you are free to take it or leave it. But the present church is largely at war with itself; division, envy, back-biting, gossip, doctrinal strife, much like you see happening on the forums. This war will be allowed to continue until eventually things get so bad in the world that they begin crying out for God. Many of them cannot get to Him now because they know that if they turn to the churches, they will just be turned into soldiers to fight in the war instead of truly growing closer to God. So what will happen when the cry of the world gets loud enough is that God will bring judgment upon the present church, and much of it will be literally destroyed, including in this country. Churches will be laid to waste and become graffiti-riddled empty buildings, because the hatred of the corrupt church will rise to violent levels, and society in general will have little sympathy for them.

The groundwork for this is being laid in government, media and education, though that would be a long discussion going through it all. But the disdain of Christianity and Christians in general will eventually reach a fever pitch, and then the judgment will take place. In the wake of "Christianity's" apparent downfall, a new church and a new leadership will arise, empowered by the Spirit of God. These will be people who were willing to stand for the truth (against the false church, against Islam, against homosexuality, etc) even at the expense of persecution and great personal loss, and because they have been faithful and found willing to stand for the truth at all costs, the Spirit will be poured out upon them abundantly to heal the sick, cast out devils, and perform miracles by the power of God. They will also preach the true gospel and call the sinner to true repentance.

I'm guessing we have at least 30 years before the hatred really starts heating up. Much of the older generations, especially in the US, still has a lot of faith in God. The coming generations are being groomed to believe in something far different however.

 

[Waiting on him]

I suppose that's a fair enough application, although I would apply it more directly to the original parallel. The Old Testament saints were buried in the earth of the Underworld, and after dying on the cross He descended to preach to the gospel to them there. We are in essence all the church, but they were the original ones He sold all He had to purchase from the kingdom of darkness.

Now we are just dealing in spiritualizations, by playing off of the meaning of the original parable.

Why would Jesus have to preach the gospel to the Old Testament saints?

 

[Hidden In Him]

Why would Jesus have to preach the gospel to the Old Testament saints?

Because they had never met their Messiah before, and because they would need to be told that He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and destined to die on a cross first so they might enter Third Heaven, before coming in power to establish His kingdom on earth.

Greetings Waiting, and good to see you again.

 

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When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?

Much love!

 

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and you are free to take it or leave it.

As is everyone!

;)

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The coming generations are being groomed

My wife has spent the past 20 years working in the public school system. This may be closer than you think.

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[Enoch111]

I'd like to know what you think and what you think Jesus meant by verse 43.

1. The Kingdom of God was primarily and firstly for all of Israel.
2. The "nation" to whom it has now been given is the Church, which is predominantly Gentile.
3. The householder is God the Father.
4. The vineyard was the nation of Israel.
5. The husbandmen were the religious leaders of Israel.
6. The servants were all the prophets sent to Israel and rejected.
7. The son was the Son of God (the Lord Jesus Christ), who was the Stone which the builders rejected.
8. The destruction of the wicked husbandmen occurred in 70 AD.

 

[Robert Gwin]

I think this parable tells an important story concerning the history of Israel . I'd like to know what you think and what you think Jesus meant by verse 43.

Matt 21:33-46

"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:

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.

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

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.

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.

44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet."

Great parable maam. Jehovah created the earth and put man upon it. You realize of course that Adam and Eve both sinned which brought humans out of a relationship with God. At that point He gave the solution in the first recorded Bible prophecy found at Gen 3:15. A little before 1500 BCE Jehovah made a covenant with descendants of Abraham and they became His nation. Jehovah ruled them through Prophets, but they were discontent and asked for a physical King such as the other nations had. So as the parable mentioned they sent them away, the nation became so corrupted that He sent His son, but like the parable said, they respected him not as well and slew him. Why did they do that? So, like satan, they could have what he had, which resulted in God taking the Kingdom from that nation (Israel) and giving it to a new nation (spiritual Israel Gal 6:16) and that is what it means.

 

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Why would Jesus have to preach the gospel to the Old Testament saints?

"preach" in the NT is a word that means to make a proclamation, so it could be that Jesus went to announce His victory over sin.

Much love!