“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general parables and 13 kingdom of God parables
Parable #13 – “THE SCRIBE HOUSEHOLDER”
Matthew 13:52The 8th of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables
“THE
41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28
general parables and 13 kingdom of God parables
Parable #13 – “THE SCRIBE HOUSEHOLDER”
Matthew
13:52The 8th of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables
In
445BC, with one Bible week equating to seven years (a prophetic
year being 360 days), God commanded that seventy weeks each of 7
years, would be determined upon Israel, that is … 70 weeks x 7
years = 490 years (Daniel 9:24-27).
This
time frame is broken into four time periods of (a) 7 weeks + (b)
62 weeks + (c) the mystery church age of about 2,000 years +
(d) 1 week = 70 weeks and is explained as follows:
#1. Seven
weeks of years is 7 x 7 = 49 years … the time it takes to restore
and build Jerusalem from 445BC to 396BC.
#2. Sixty
two weeks of years is 62 x 7 = 434 years … the time from the
building of Jerusalem in 396BC to Christ being cut off at the cross in 32AD.
#3. The
church age of approximately 2,000 years
#4. One
week of years is 1 x 7 = 7 years … this is the seven years of
tribulation of God’s wrath upon the earth, that takes place after the rapture …
called Daniel’s 70th week.
DANIEL 9:24-27
THIS
IS THE ‘HIDDEN’ TREASURE OF JESUS CHRIST …
…
THE PERFECT SCRIBE HOUSEHOLDER HIMSELF
Christ
continues to tell Israel about himself in kingdom of heaven parables, lest they
see and hear Matthew 13:13), after they
have rejected him. It’s almost ‘cruel’ in a way … like kicking a dead dog as it
were … but Christ is never cruel.
So
hidden in amongst these kingdom parables is another parable of Christ himself …
a hidden hidden Christ … a doubly hidden Christ.
So
much so, even the accepted number of kingdom parables by the Christian church,
indeed any other, has always been twelve not thirteen!
NUMERICS:
Furthermore,
it is no coincidence that this number of parable is #8! Why? This is
Christ’s number of himself as follows:
8 =
2 x 2 x 2 = triple 2 = the Godhead of three persons with the
number of the 2nd person being Christ.
8 =
4 x 2 = Christ out of the 4th tribe with his number
of 2.
8 =
the eight day that Christ rose from the dead
8 =
8 x 1 = number of 8 with the number of the Godhead being 1.
FURTHER
NUMERICS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
The
scripture is found in Matthew 13:52
(a)
#13 = the 13 apostles with Christ under the kingdom of heaven
rules
(b)
#52 = 4 x 13 = #4 being 4th tribe of Judah x 13 = 2 x 2 x 13
(c) #13 + #52 = 65 = 5 x 13 = the number of death being 5 x 13
So
here we have Matthew 13:52 being associated with death, kingdom of
heaven and the 13 apostles.
This
is to be contrasted with Paul under the kingdom of God dispensation of life,
kingdom of God and the 14th apostle where 14 = 2 x 7
THE
PARABLE
It is
generally accepted there are only 12 kingdom parables … however here is
Christ’s ‘hiding’ himself and the ‘hidden’ things of himself … the treasures
of the goodly pearl, the new wine, the new cloth … he
bringeth forth out things of the old and new testaments.
kingdom of heaven = see above diagram
every scribe instructed = a
scribe was in charge of the words of God…. And true dispensational Bible teachers are the true scribes. But the true
scribe householder is Jesus Christ … and we can only be LIKE him …
being conformed to his image (Romans 8:29).
a man householder = the man is Jesus Christ who can perfectly bring out of the old
testament glories of the treasures about himself. Indeed Christ is the house …
the perfect tabernacle (See Hebrews 8-9)
bringeth forth = reveals himself … for example, to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus
(Luke 24:13).
“For he shall grow up before him (Christ) as a tender plant, and as a root out
of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall
see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2).
God continuously brings out Jesus
Christ from the Old Testament into the New Testament with Christ being a ‘shadow’
in the old.
“Which are a shadow of things to come; but
the body is of Christ.” (Colossians 2:17)
“For the law having a shadow of good things to
come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers
thereunto perfect.” (Hebrews 10:1)
his treasure = the
treasure is Christ’s word of God/the scriptures/the Bible
things new and old = the old testament and the new testament. Christ comes out of the old to become the new
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem
of Jesse, and a Branch (Christ) shall
grow out of his roots:” (Isaiah 11:1)
FURTHER POINTS ABOUT NEW AND OLD TREASURES
1. In Christ
God reveals old and new treasures.
2. If
a man understands the dispensations in the New Testament, he may properly
interpret the Old Testament and vice versa
3. The
old treasure is likened to the manna eaten in the desert, till
the new is ready … that is Christ himself.
4. True
scribes of the kingdom of heaven doctrine are to reveal that Christ, the
Son of man, God manifest in the flesh, is the Son of God.
The true scribes will say “Christ is God” and
thereby compare and contrast the shadows of the Old Testament, thereby showing
they are revealed in the New.
5. As the saying goes “The Old is in the New revealed,
and the New is in the Old concealed.”
6. The
old treasures are just as glorious as the new. “For if that which is done
away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.” (2 Corinthians
3:11)
7. The
tabernacle in the desert was the pattern of Christ to come.
“Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern
shewed to thee in the mount.” (Hebrews 8:5)
8. Christ
is the new food and fruit of the new manna to replace the
old desert manna.
“And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet
of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in (new fruits) ye shall eat of the old store.”
(Leviticus 25:22)
“And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the
old because of the new.” (Leviticus 26:10)
9. Christ
replaces the milk of Moses and is the strong meat.
“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile,
and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire
the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye
have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” (1 Peter 2:1-3)
“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye
have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles
of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For
every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is
a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and
evil.” (Hebrews 5:12-14)
Harley Hitchcock
October 2023
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general parables and 13 kingdom of heaven
parables
Parable
#14 – “LOST SHEEP”
Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-6,7
The
6th of the 28 general parables
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