The Early Parables Of Jesus 1

INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY PARABLES:

-The groupings of the parables

Many years ago I did a number of messages on a number of parables Jesus gave that I believe speak prophetically of the Church age. Most of them are found in Matthew 13. Then I began to see that Jesus’ later parables form a group as well. And I did a number of messages on what I called the latter parables. Having done those two groups of parables I began to see that the early parables form a group as well. So there are three groups of parables, and all three groups were prophetic at the time they were given.

Now the early parables that we are going to look at indicate that a change is coming. Today we are in an age of change to such an extent that we are much more used to change. But back then, Judaism had been in existence for a long, long time, and change would be very difficult for them to take. And this change would be a very huge change. Israel, for the next 2,000 years would no longer by God’s primary work. Well the time after that change that would come is described in the second set of parables. It speaks of the time we know as the Church age, and we have now been in that time for some 2,000 years.