{"id":3307,"date":"2008-03-04T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/keys-of-the-kingdom-42.html"},"modified":"2008-03-04T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T00:10:15","slug":"keys-of-the-kingdom-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/keys-of-the-kingdom-42.html","title":{"rendered":"Keys of the Kingdom 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our next text is in the middle of a parable, found at Matthew 21:31-45: 43 ?Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit<\/strong>. 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.?<\/em>.
\n1. The parable is about response to the Son; thus, the parable has a christological focus.
\n2. The “kingdom” here is something that Israel’s leaders or Israel presently possesses. This reminds me of Matthew 8:5-13 where the “sons of the kingdom” will be kicked out of the kingdom at the End.
\n3. The kingdom the leaders\/Israel presently possesses will be taken from the leaders\/Israel and given to others.
\n4. Who are the others? It could be Gentiles (“a people” is translation for ethnos<\/em>) or the “collective people” who do the fruit — an image for doing what Jesus teaches. The kingdom will be given to them — there is here an church-focus to the kingdom. Kingdom is here connected to the people of Jesus.
\n5. V. 44 brings back into view the christological focus again: the stone is Jesus and that stone will be the Final Judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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