To: alan w who wrote (36947 ) 4/28/2004 2:54:57 PM From: Emile Vidrine Respond to of 39621 JESUS EXPLAINS THE TRANSITION FROM THE OLD JERUSALEM TO THE NEW JERUSALEM-THE CHURCH; THE OLD ZION TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION--THE CHURCH. The Parable of the Wicked Husdandmen--transition from the Old to he New Covenant. In this parable, Jesus explains the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. He also identifies the creation of a new kingdom Nation, a royal priesthood, a Holy Nation, to bring forth the fruits and replace the nation of the Old Covenant. Jesus has truly fulfilled His mission. The Church-The Body of Chris-- through the power of the Holy Spirit has flooded the world and all nations with the knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the knowledge of the Word of God. The Church has become the apple of Gods' eye. " Chapter: Isa.66 " 7: Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8: Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." ---------------- This is a beautiful description of the birth of the Christian people--The Church. The creation of a new race--a new nation--in one day is impossible without Christ and the new birth. The modern false prophets misuse this verse and apply it to the birth Zionist Israel in l948--WHAT BLASPHEMY! WHAT SPIRITUAL DARKNESS! ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED HUSBANDMAN Matt. 21 33: Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35: And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36: Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. 37: But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38: 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. 39: And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. 40: When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 41: They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. 42: Jesus saith unto them, Did ye 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 marvellous in our eyes? 43: Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. 44: And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 45: And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.