A PARABLE ABOUT OUR ETERNAL
SALVATION
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The brightness of our
revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines, our
building
blocks. We who are saved, redeemed, imputed for
righteousness, born-again,
are ascending Jacob’s ladder. (Gen 28:12; John 1:51). God is Thought. Thoughts are Life. God’s angels are His
manifested Thoughts. God is Love. God is a Spirit. God is the eternal
Spirit
from which all things, that are the entire
manifested universe, was/is
being created. All S(s)pirits are God’s thoughts. You are a part of
God’s
Spirit (Eccl 12:7); you will
become either an eternal Spirit, or an eternal
fallen spirit.
THE
AGREEMENT (ORAL
CONTRACT)
(Mat 20:1-7)
For the kingdom of heaven [on earth] is like unto a man that is an householder [Jesus Christ], which went out early in
the morning [Heb: dawn, day-brake] [6 am of the day] [1] to hire [Gk: let out for wages] labourers into his
vineyard [his grape-yard] [2,3]. And when he had agreed
with the labourers for a penny [about 17 cents] a day,
he sent them into his vineyard [(ok, now let’s go to work)] [4]. And he went out about the third
hour [9 am of the day], and saw
others standing idle [Gk:
unemployed] in the marketplace [of the world], And said unto them; Go
ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right
[Gk: (fair), just: righteous] I will give you. And they went
their way. Again he went out about the
sixth [noon] and ninth hour [3 pm of the
day], and did likewise.
And about the eleventh hour [5 pm of the day] he went out,
and found others standing idle [Gk: unemployed], and saith
unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle [Gk: unemployed]? They say
unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith
unto them, Go ye
also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
1.
(John
9:4,5) I
[Jesus Christ] must
work the works of him [Father God]
that sent me, while
it is
day: the night cometh [i.e.,
the Great Tribulation], when
no
man can work [because we
who have
been raptured out (2 Thes 2:6-12) will no longer be here]. As
long as I am in the world [or in
men
who are in the world], I am the light [Gk: luminousness] [syn: illumination,
enlightenment] of the world.
2.
Commentary: “his
vineyard” = is a parallel to the
Garden of Eden which is a type and
shadow of the
a.
(Gen 2:15)
And
the LORD God took the man, and put him into the
garden [Heb: a
garden (as fenced)] of
3.
(John
15:1) I
[Jesus Christ] am the true vine [Gk: a vine (as coiling about a support)], and
my Father [God] is the husbandman [Gk: farmer] [i.e., married to the land].
a.
Commentary: men and women
are symbolized by grapes that cling
to and are nurtured into growth by the
grapevine. Ultimately, the matured grapes are picked
(separated from the
world) and pressed, crushing and discarding the empty husk (bodies) to
squeeze
forth the juice
of the fruit that, after a time of fermentation (meditation),
becomes wine (revelations) – pleasing to God.
4.
(Mark
16:15) And
he said unto them [His
disciples], Go
ye into all the world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos” (universe)], and preach
the gospel
[of love] to
every creature [a
huge
category of living, breathing, moving entities to which mankind is but
one
sub-category].
THE END
OF THE DAY OF WORK
(Mat 20:8-10) So when even was
come [Gk: late afternoon
(early evening)] [darkness and the
Great Tribulation
approaching], the lord of the
vineyard [Jesus Christ] saith unto his steward [his
assigned manager, superintendent], Call
the labourers [1],
and give them their
hire [their reward], beginning from the last unto the first.
And when they came that
were hired about the
eleventh hour [the last,
representing
us (New Testament workers)], they
received every man a penny. But when the
first came [the 6 am
laborers (Old Testament workers)], they
supposed that they should
have received more [than
those
who came later]; and they likewise
received every man a penny
[2].
1.
Commentary: “Call
the labourers” = symbolically,
the rapture, i.e.,
call to come to “the lord of the vineyard” (harvest) all those who obediently went to work in the
vineyard, cultivating, caring for, and trimming the grapes, analogous
to “dress
it and keep it” (Gen 2:15) in the Garden of Eden.
2.
Commentary: “they
supposed” = syn: reasoned, reckoned.
Being not able to fully comprehend
what the “penny” from
“the lord of the vineyard” truly represented, i.e., they did not
understand the
tremendous extreme preciousness of the “penny”
beyond its apparent secular value, but esteemed it exactly what their
secular
eyes perceived it to be, merely a day’s wages that would buy (purchase)
a day’s
worth of secular goods, and not “the key”
to the resplendent spiritual riches of the Kingdom of God. The penny
represented the seed of the
a.
probation = Dict: 1. a testing or trial, as
of a person’s character, ability to
meet requirements, etc. 2. the suspension of sentence of a person
convicted but
not yet imprisoned, on condition of continued good behavior and regular
reporting to a probation officer.
THE
CONSEQUENCES
(Mat 20:11,12) And when [after] they [the 6 am first workers]
had received it [the
penny, i.e., past tense, they were probationary citizens now],
they murmured [Gk:
grumbled] against
the goodman of the house [i.e.,
Jesus Christ], Saying, These last
have wrought [Gk:
worked] but
one hour [the 5 pm last
workers (us)], and thou hast made
them equal unto us,
which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
(Mat 20:13-16)
But he answered one
of them, and said, Friend,
I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree
with me for a penny? [A
deal is a deal; you received exactly your
perception and
expectation of what you agreed upon and worked for] Take that
thine is [take your agreed
upon reward],
and go thy way
[rather than my
way] [1]: I
will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful [i.e., have I broken any law?] for me to do what I will with mine own? Is
thine eye evil [“Thou
shalt not
covet” Exo 20:17], because
I am
good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many
be
called [to salvation], but few chosen [saved].
1.
(Mark
4:16,17) And
these are they likewise [like
those “by the way side,” i.e., not saved, upon] which [the
words (seeds) of
God] are sown on stony
ground [hearts]; who, when they have heard the word
[of salvation],
immediately receive
it with gladness; And have no root [of Jesus Christ: Rev 22:16] in themselves, and so endure
but
for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth
for the
word's sake, immediately they are offended [“fall away” Luke 8:13; Gk: instigate to revolt,
desert: depart,
withdraw self].
Amen