18. The Kingdom Parables – The Fifth – The Hidden Treasure – Part 2 Of 4 Series

18. The Kingdom Parables – The Fifth – The Hidden Treasure – Part 2 of 4

In Part 2 we will expand the meaning of the Parable of the Hidden Treasure and look also at the Second Coming of the Lord.

[F]. THE PLACEMENT OF THIS PARABLE IN SCRIPTURE

This is most interesting. The Hidden Treasure follows on straight after these verses:-

{{Matthew 13:41 “THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,

Matthew 13:42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:43 “THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.”}}

Those verses are concluding the explanation of the Parable of the Tares. That judgement happens at the end of the age – {{Matthew 13:39 “and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, AND THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE AGE, and the reapers are angels.”}}

It is the judgement that comes to separate out of the Kingdom, all that is wicked. In verses 41 and 42, the wicked are gathered up and thrown into hell to await the great white throne judgement. That is equivalent to the judgement of the sheep and goat nations at the Second Coming.

When Jesus returns, the angels will gather the wicked, the goats and all unrighteousness, but the sheep remain to enter the Kingdom over which the Messiah, the Son of Man, will rule.

Now the placement is the Second Coming when Messiah returns for His righteous people (those of Matthew 13:43). It is the very same coming as described here in these two verses:-

{{Acts 1:11 and they also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, WILL COME IN JUST THE SAME WAY as you have watched Him go into heaven.”}} (Jesus ascended from the Mount of Olives).

{{Zechariah 14:4 “And IN THAT DAY HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.”}} (This is Messiah’s return to the Mount of Olives).

[G]. NOTE! CONNECTING THE DOTS!

When Jesus returns to His people, Israel (His Church comes with Him, having been in heaven for that period of 7 years), then the righteous shall shine as Matthew 13:43 says. This language is similar to what Malachi wrote: - {{Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and EVERY EVILDOER WILL BE CHAFF; and the day that is coming will set them ABLAZE,” says the LORD of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL RISE with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.”}}

The Second Coming is not for the Church. The Church was taken away 7 years earlier to heaven in the Rapture. This second Coming is the Lord/Messiah, with the Church, coming to Israel, to the Mount of Olives. At the Second Coming the angels gather all lawlessness and wickedness out of the Kingdom and will cast them into the furnace of fire; Malachi says all evildoers will be as chaff to be set ablaze. Matthew speaks about the righteous shining forth. Malachi speaks about the Sun of Righteousness coming, and HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL will shine forth and skip about like calves.

At the Second Coming, what has been HIDDEN in the world (the field) – THAT IS Israel, THAT HAS BEEN PURCHASED – Messiah who has bought the field (the world) through His atoning sacrifice, will lift His precious treasure from the hidden regions of all nations, and will bring them together to Israel. It is then that He retrieves His treasure He purchased when he bought the field (world).

This following passage is the Son of Man “digging up His purchased treasure” when He comes to claim the Jewish saints at the Second Coming -? {{Isaiah 43:4-7 Since you are PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT, since you are honoured and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life. Do not fear for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the EAST and gather you from the WEST. I will say to the NORTH, ‘Give them up!’ and to the SOUTH, ‘Do not hold them back.’ BRING MY SONS FROM AFAR AND MY DAUGHTERS from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by My name and whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”}}. The context of that passage is 100% Israel. Gentiles can not be inserted into it.