What Was Jesus’s Gospel?
Ruling in the physical
realm as well as in the spiritual realm.
“Now as they heard these
things, He spoke another parable, because
He was near Jerusalem and
because they thought the kingdom of God
would appear immediately”
(Luke 19:11).
The people were looking
for the establishment of the Kingdom of God with Jerusalem as the center of
government over the
nations, with the Jews
being the prominent
people of the Kingdom, as
the prophets had
foretold.
So Jesus explained it
this way: “A certain nobleman went into a far country
to receive for himself a
kingdom and to
return” (verse 12).
Jesus, the nobleman of
the parable, taught that
while He was away
(in heaven) for an
unspecified length of
time, His servants would
continue where
they were (on earth)
doing their Lord’s
business until He
returned, when they
would be rewarded (verses
13-27). And
what is their reward in
this parable? It is
having authority over
cities—physical cities filled with men, women, boys and girls
(verses 17, 19).
The parable of the
talents in Matthew
25:14-30 is similar,
giving the same kind of message. The basic scenario
is the same: “...
The kingdom of heaven is
like a man traveling to a far
country, who called his own
servants and delivered his goods to them”
(verse 14).
The reward for those who
increased their talents (a denomination of
money here symbolic of
spiritual means) is being made “ruler over many
things” (verses 21, 23).
The Kingdom of God when it is established
by Jesus Christ at His
return will be a literal government, ruling on
earth and functioning not
only in the spiritual affairs of man, but in his
temporal affairs too.
This is the Kingdom that
Jesus announced would be coming. And He
began to invite some to
“repent, and believe in the gospel”—the good
news of His
message—because “the kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark
1:15). He was now
announcing that Kingdom, and they had the oppor-
tunity to prepare to be a
part of the Kingdom of God at His return.
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