Mt 13: 3And he spake many things unto them in parables,Mt 13: 10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Mk 12: 1And he began to speak unto them by parables.
I agree totally with Renee's post about God's time markers. We must watch Jerusalem and consider the 40 year generation.
I posted a parable God had given me last year about this FINAL GENERATION.God then further confirmed that this IS the LAST Generation [aka The Grandpa Tree generation]If you will take the time to read this parable and my journal entries posted in these links, you will see that from the 40th anniversary of the Six Day war [June 5-10, 2007] until this June, 2008, this year is a WATERSHED year.wa-ter-shed n.
1. A ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems. Also called water parting.
2. The region draining into a river, river system, or other body of water.
3. A critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point: "a watershed in modern American history, a time that...forever changed American social attitudes" (Robert Reinhold).
On April 8, Haaretz reported:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972875.html
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak assembled the new National Emergency Authority on Monday as part of the Home Front preparedness exercise being conducted this week throughout the country.
As part of the drill, known as Turning Point 2 (Nekudat Mifne 2), the siren sounded for a minute and a half. There was no alarm sounded for the drill in Sderot and the rest of the communities bordering Gaza.
SURELY our redemption draws nigh.
Mary Hansen