(Matthew Chapters 12:38 - 13:52)

This block of scripture recounts what had to be one of the most dramatic days of Jesus' public ministry. It spanned the range of disbelief by the Scribes and Pharisees to the naming of the Disciples as His true brothers and sisters. Although Jesus absolutely scalds the Scribes and Pharisees for wishing to see a "sign" as being part of an evil and adulterous generation, He then gets in a boat that same day and delivers seven wonderful signs through parables that only his Disciples understood. These parables match the same seven step pattern of the Lampstand of God's Purpose.

1. INITIATES: The sower went out to sow the seed of the Word of the kingdom. Jesus told His Disciples that they would understand the parables. The multitudes would not.

2. SEPARATES: The second parable is all about separating the wheat from the tares at the end of the age.

3. SEED/WORD: The third parable is about the tiny mustard seed that grows into a huge tree as the Word fills the kingdom.

4. EARLY HARVEST: The fourth parable is exactly what we have in the church today. Lots of leaven. (Remember the 4th feast)

5. AWAKENS: The fifth parable is about a man discovering a treasure somewhere in a field, so he goes and buys that field.

6. REDEEMS: In the sixth parable, a man finds a pearl of great value so he sells all that he has to buy that one pearl.

7. GOD RESTS: The seventh parable is about the end of the age as God completes His purposes, as the angels gather "fish" of every kind, separating the good from the bad. At the end of all of these parables, Jesus asked his Disciples if they understood them. Surprisingly, they said "Yes". Jesus' response in Matthew 13: 52, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old" is most significant. Even though He denied that generation's scribes any sign other than Noah's, by becoming both a Disciple and a Scribe, you could have the signs AND understand them. That's for THIS generation's scribes.

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