"Thinking Eternally, Acting Locally." - Neal August
Most people have long supposed that Biblical parables that speak of a king going away and coming back again are to be read without question as meaning Jesus going away (in death, resurrection, and exaltation), leaving the Church with spiritual gifts and tasks to perform, and then coming back a long time later to see how they’ve been getting on.
In truth, these
parables, in their first century context, were about Yahweh going away at the
time of the Exile, having left the Jews with the Torah and the vocation to be
the light of the world, and Yahweh now returning.
Jesus saw the
coming of Yahweh back to Zion as an event so intimately bound up in his own
ministry and its immediately climax that he could speak of the one in terms of
the other.
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