Parables

013 The Parables of the Lord 4

In this, our fourth installment of the Parables of the Lord we are going explain or further explain five amazing parables. We are also going to show you how tightly intertwined they are.  These parables give a clear contrast between the righteous and the wicked and identify without a doubt exactly who the wicked and the righteous are.

You will learn who has the living water and provides it to the sheep; what it means to be anointed, and who has the oil; who has a firm foundation and who is using untempered mortar; who is wearing a righteous garment and who are the wolves in sheep’s clothing; what it means to be a good shepherd and how to identify the wicked ones.

God said, “Then (the Day of the Lord) shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.”

Malachi 3:18

LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE ARE SAYING…

Parables covered in this PodCast are:
The Wise and Foolish Builders Part 2
The Wedding Feast and Garment Part 2
The Ten Virgins
The Good Samaritan Part 5
The Good Shepherd

012 The Parables of the Lord 3

Parables in scripture both conceal and reveal the knowledge and wisdom of God. In Matthew, chapter thirteen, Jesus said he speaks in parables because it is not given to the multitudes to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven and he spoke not lest he spoke in parables. There are hidden meanings in the parables of Jesus that he only explained to his apostles, but in the Bible he did not explain them all.

In this PodCast we will again be revealing some of those hidden mysteries and looking at his parables in ways you may not have considered.

Parables covered in this PodCast are:
The Talents
The Three Measures of meal
The Wedding Feast and Garment
The Good Samaritan Part 4
The Wise and Foolish Builders

010 The Parables of the Lord 2

Parables are a way of making complex topics easier to understand, but did you know that Jesus also used parables as a cloak. There are hidden meanings in his parables that he only explained to his apostles, but in the Bible he did not explain them all.

In this PodCast we will be revealing some of those hidden mysteries and looking at his parables in ways you may not have considered.

Parables covered in this PodCast are:

The Sower
The Sheep and the Goats
The Wicked Husbandmen Part 2
The Fig Tree
The Good Samaritan Part 2

009 The Parables of the Lord 1

Parables are a way of making complex topics easier to understand, but did you know that Jesus also used parables as a cloak. There are hidden meanings in his parables that he only explained to his apostles, but in the Bible he did not explain them all.

In this PodCast we will be revealing some of those hidden mysteries and looking at his parables in ways you may not have considered.

Parables covered in this PodCast are:
The God Samaritan
The Wheat and the Tares
The Wicked Tenants (Husbandmen)
The Wedding Feast

A Momentous Occasion – 400-Year Anniversary

It is indeed a momentous occasion for America. Four hundred years ago, on November 11, 1620, the Pilgrims came ashore on land. That is now in Provincetown on Cape Cod. The Pilgrims’ story is a central theme in the history and culture of the United States of America. The Pilgrim Fathers were that band of Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.

A pilgrim is defined a person who journeys a long distance to some sacred place as an act of devotion. They were escaping religious persecution and going to the Promised Land.

The Pilgrims Landing

“PROVINCETOWN – The year 1620 is etched in the annals of world history. It is the year a group of English settlers known as the Pilgrims seeking religious freedom boarded their ship, Mayflower. They braved a hazardous trip across the Atlantic Ocean to establish a new home.”

Plymouth Rock etched with the year 1620
Plymouth Rock – 1620

Seeing this date etched in Plymouth Rock is like seeing the writing on the Wall. “Mene, mene, teckel, upharsin” in the time of Daniel spelled the end for the Babylonian king and the end of the Babylonian captivity. It marks an especially important date for the people of God.

The Harvest is at the End…

The Feast of Harvest, the ingathering of the Firstfruits into the House of God has begun at sunset which is at 6:49 PM, October 2, 2020. The full moon in harvest time is so called the Harvest Moon because it rises as the sun sets and gives light to the reapers all night long. Then as the moon goes down, the sun begins to rise.

The Full Harvest Moon
The Harvest Moon

Now hear the Word of the LORD! At the time of the Harvest, the Light of the Moon will be as the Light of the Sun…

“Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in THE DAY that the LORD binds up the breach of His people and heals the stroke of their wound.”

Isaiah 30:26

Jesus told a parable of the harvest of the ‘Wheat and the Tares’. When he had finished and everyone went home, his disciples came and asked him to explain it to them. Here’s what he said:

“The harvest is the end of the world…”

Jesus, The Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30, 34-43

The Pentecost and the Promise of God

This is a day celebrated by both the ‘Jews’ and the ‘Christians’ only in different ways. This being one of the feasts ordained by God for the children of Israel to observe throughout their generations. It marks the fiftieth day (7 weeks plus one day) after the Passover or Exodus of Israel out of Egypt. It is in commemoration of the day Moses received the Tablets of the Law. This was to establish the Covenant between God and Israel. The Feast of Weeks or Shavuot and to bring in the firstfruits of the harvest.

By some, May 31, 2020 will be celebrated as the Pentecost (the Greek word for fifty). Is it just a day to go to church and pay your tithe or is there something else there hidden from view? What is the significance?

Others, from the evenings of May 28 to May 30 will be celebrating the “Feast of Weeks.” It also commemorates the Feast of the Firstfruits when the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were to be brought before God in thanksgiving. Is it just a harvest or tithe of wheat? Is it a time to eat cheese? Or is there something hidden from view? What is the significance?

Moses with the Tablets of the Law, the Ten Commandments, the Covenant between God and Israel

Time of the Feast of Weeks

Spring Wheat

God calls for three feast times during a year. May 31st, 2020 is the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. Last month we looked at Passover and the associated Feast of Unleavened bread.  We learned about the shadows that are contained within these Holy Days and the time of their occurrence.  The detailed instructions of those occasions are actually prophecies of events that happened at the time of Y’hoshua (Jesus) as well as right now!  Could the same be true for the ‘Feast of Weeks?’  Absolutely!

As a refresher, one aspect of Passover is the connection to the time of the Sabbath in God’s time.  The menorah represents that seven-fold light of time, Y’hoshua is shadowed in the center shaft or vine in both his role as the Passover lamb and the time in history when he was alive.

The Firstfruits

God told Moses to speak to the children of Israel concerning His feasts:

In the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the Lord’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. … When you are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.”

Leviticus 23:5-10
parable of wheat
“…but gather the wheat into my barn…” Parable of the Wheat and the Tares” Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Does God require that you bring the first stalks of wheat that come out of your garden?  What if you can’t grow wheat?  Does that make you unacceptable? This seems silly.  There must be more to this than what’s on the surface.  Let’s take a look at other places in God’s word to see if we can gain a better understanding of what’s being said here…

Does Science disprove God?

The Goldilocks Zone

Perfect organization does not come out of chaos, all breakthroughs in science show greater and greater organization.  At first they may seem random and chaotic, but the more we learn the more organized and perfect they become.  Unlike things created by man which upon closer inspection reveal greater imperfections, science does the opposite.

Is there a God? Really?

Our universe is fine-tuned for life, what some call the Goldilocks zone (not too cold, not too hot, but just right).  Life wouldn’t be possible if any one of a number of fundamental physical constants were altered, even a hair. If a proton were just one percent heavier, it would decay into a neutron, and atoms would fly apart. If the weak force were slightly stronger than it is, or weaker than it is, higher elements necessary for life would have never been created in the cores of stars. And so on.  The odds against all of these constants being precisely what they need to be are trillions to one against.

Going further, to have the Goldilocks zone exist to support life is nothing short of miraculous, but for that life to contemplate its own existence, to even ask the question “Is there a God?” has odds in the trillions of trillions of trillions to one against.   …

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