The LORD our Passover

Jesus in His way of teaching used many parables which referenced marriage to prove a point though they were in a veiled language with hidden meaning. They keep the outsiders out and those in the know within. This gives them an even deeper understanding, in revelation of Him. Who is the Faithful One, and creates a deeper love of Him through which trust is turned to faith and faith now works in receptivity as Son's of God, being the restored ones. God in His own counsel knew that man would indeed fall pry to His nemesis Satan and his counter part and then be influenced by their host of fallen angels from which He would rescue through Redemption many of His creation of Love. Also in His own counsel He established that man alone would be faced with choice of free will to choose Him or remain in darkness by denying the Light of His revelation through which he would restore within man His Likeness in Christ, the promised seed of woman. This can be seen within the text of the first three chapters of Genesis, the book of beginnings. For example in Gen. 2 we find the marriage relationship of God with Man and Man the spirit being with God as God intended just after He took from man to create woman and then Adam said this in verses 23 and 24; “Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Herein is the secret of the similitudes and metaphoric language used by the LORD God throughout the OT and the NT known only by His revelation. Upon which He is about building His family. As separated people unto Himself.

Our first encounter is in Matthew 22 to get the flow we must look also at what had been going on before this passage in chapter 21 where we find Him after the entry into Jerusalem upon the colt picking up at verse 18 we have this; “In the morning as He returned into the city, He hungered. And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on you henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! Jesus answering said to them, Verily I say to you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Be removed, and be cast into the sea; it shall be done. All things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.

When He was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said, By what authority do You these things? and who gave You this authority? And Jesus answering said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; He will say to us, Why did you not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all held John as a prophet. So they answered Jesus, saying, We cannot tell. And He said to them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answering said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answering said, I go, sir: and went not. Which of the two did the will of his father? They answered Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believed him: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder (GOD), which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen (the priesthood from Ezra's day forward), and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants (the prophets) to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did to them likewise. But last of all he sent to them his son (Jesus), saying, They will reverence my son. But 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 (the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force). And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard (Jerusalem representative of the nation bond by unbelief in mans false Religion), and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will He do to those husbandmen? They said to Him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out His vineyard to other husbandmen, which shall render Him the fruits in their seasons.

Jesus said to them, Did you 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 marvelous in our eyes? Therefore say I to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. (Daniel 9:24-27) And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard His parables, they perceived that He spoke of them. But when they sought to lay hands on Him, they feared the multitude, because they took Him for a prophet.