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Originally Posted by OzzyRules
. The "dialogues" that Jesus has with the Pharisees in the gospel of John represent the inner dialogues which occur in our subconscious mind.
What do you think of this interpretation?
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Everything Jesus says is a parable and every parable can be read 3 different ways. An Atheist who knows nothing of the bible can read a parable and find a truth in it, but a well studied person who knows the history behind the bible will see something else.
An Atheist could give an easy sermon on the prodigal son, but a bible thumper will tell you that the prodigal son is in fact, the prodigal nation of Israel who were lost 2700 years ago. Just as the ten lost tribes left Judah, Christianity has left Judah in the exact same way and so you can also show Christianity to be the prodigal son because of the fact that Ephraim is the prodigal nation. That nation of Ephraim was sent into the nations where God said they would become Gentiles, but that after they became gentiles, God would betroth himself and redeem them back into Israel under the promise and name of Ephraim.
So when Jesus was telling the story of the prodigal, it is in fact showing the future of Christianity under the same promise and same name.
Then there is the third interpretation and true meaning of the prodigal that few know. Always 3 different views.
When Jesus was obviously speaking of the Jews in a parable and showing the present when he said the kingdom would be taken and give to another, he was also showing the future of what really will happen on Sukkot and it is not the Jews this parable is about any longer. When Jesus was speaking to those Pharisees, he was speaking of the present but the truth of the matter are always in the feasts.
EXAMPLE
This is obviously speaking of the teachers of the Torah Isn't it?
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
33Hear 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:
34And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38But 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.
39And they caught him, and cast
him out of the vineyard, and slew
him.
40When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
41They 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.
42Jesus 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?
43Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
46But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
But the thing that should be staring down the throat of every Christian is that it is now on them.
What Jesus said to these Pharisees can exactly be said about Christianity and what Christianity has done.
This parable is in fact about the wine harvest to come, Jesus came in the spring and he gave the rain of the spring and his next coming is inside people in the fall and he will rain down floods on people who receive the rain at the feast of Tabernacles, and this is the coming of the wine harvest. Sikels will swing and sway and people will drop dead.
From the very beginning anyone should know that there are 3 harvests of people.
The barley
The Wheat
The fruit and oil harvest.
While Jesus was obviously talking to those Pharisees and scribes, what changed?
The kingdom of heaven was taken out of their hands and now put in the hands of Gentiles and all Gentiles have done was to repeat what the first kingdom of Israel had done.
NOW IT WAS THEY WHO HAD BEEN PUT IN CHARGE.
The roles are exactly reversed and they will give account just as those scribes and Pharisees did, and it is more than Ironic because it looks like such a big dig against Jews, But OH MY GOD, It is twice a bigger dig against Christianity because the Lord will come in the harvesting of the grapes in the fall, and now Christians will have to stand and give account.
The parable is showing the last harvest, the fruit harvest when God comes judging the people he put in charge and this is the bema judgment, this isn't where the unbeliever Jew dies, it is where the gentiles fall dead. It is talking about the crushing of the grapes against those put in charge and that IS NOT THE JEW.
It is the Gentile and this is the wine harvest.
The two will be there and only one of them follows the commandments of God.
If somebody thinks that they haven't killed the heir, they should look again.
Then there is a third interpretation of that parable.
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and whether that means a wisely accurate guess or some divine information passed on by his father which wert in heaven can be left to the reader to decide. As we see, they are rarely at a loss to come up with some rationalization of what is pretty evident story -construction for the purpose of making a polemic point.
