PLOT TO KILL THE VINE
Jesus is metaphorically, the “vine” as can be seen from
scripture, “I am the true Vine, and my Father is the Husbandman… ye are the
branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him” (John 15:1,5). The “vine” in
scripture would be the trunk of the tree from which the branches emanate. That has
much continuity with Adam’s role in the Garden of Eden; to wit: “to dress and
keep the Garden (Gen 2:15). The translation from the Hebrew could as well have
been “to serve and preserve” the trees of the Garden. But God did that already
in that there was no hard work in Paradise. Hard work came after sin in the
wilderness outside the Garden.
In the Garden, just as in the world with the vine, the
Father is the “Husbandman,” that being the One who tends the vine and all the
branches and deserves the harvest of the fruit. Adam was a type of “vine
dresser.” As the Husbandman, the Father was responsible for the land, the
planting of the seed, fertilization of the land under the right conditions, protecting
the vines from harmful elements, and such; but the vinedressers were
responsible for dressing and keeping the vines. The yield of the vine was to be
shared. The Husbandman was to have his portion, but the fruit shared with the
vinedressers. That system was established in the Garden of Eden, and during
Jesus’s ministry he alluded to mankind’s responsibility from the beginning. As
the keeper of the vineyard, the vinedressers were to give the Husbandman His
share, and in His absence, His legitimate heir.
In the case of the “parable of the wicked vinedressers” (Mark
12 and Luke 20), the Husbandman sent His servants to the vinedressers to get
His share. The servants were stoned, beaten, and turned away empty handed by
the wicked vinedressers. In the end, the Husbandman found it necessary to send
His Son to come for what was rightfully His. The parable has much meaning. Of
course, the “Husbandman” is the Father, the “Vine” the Son, the branches” the servants,
and the vinedressers those who would persecute Jesus to rob from the Father what
is His.
Back in the Garden of Eden, Adam’s assignment was to be a
good “vinedresser.” He was to tend to the trees in the Garden that God had
planted and nourished. Those trees were as blind Bartimaeus said, “as trees
walking” (Mark 8:24). The Garden was real but also metaphorically it was a
Garden of souls represented as “trees.” The Husbandman in the Garden was the
Father in all three aspects: (1) the Branch was the visible, Jesus, (2) the
Root the Father, and (3) the Living Waters which nourished the Tree of Life was
the Holy Spirit. The Tree of Life represented the Holy Trinity, its branches
the Servants (Church) and the twelve fruits thereon, the fruits of the Spirit.
That is much the same as the “vine” in the parable.
What was the vinedressers planning to do with the Heir to
the Husbandman?
13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, “What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.” 14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, “This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.” 15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? 16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, “God forbid.” 17 And he beheld them, and said, “What is this then that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?’” (Luke 20:13-17)
In the Luke version, the servants are like the “husbandmen”
as well; they were in His image — not quite the Lord of the Manor but was to do
as He would do. Adam, back in the Garden, in the image of God, would “husband” the
“trees” as God would Himself. He would serve and preserve the “crop” which God
had planted. The produce in the Garden was more than trees, but a crop of “souls”
awaiting the planting season. God planted, planned for them, and gave them a
future before the foundation of the world (Ephes 1:4). Adamkind were to be the
husbandmen who would care for the vine until the Son came for the “crop” or
better said, when their time had come for glorification.
Things changed in the world. After sin, the crop of souls
was much more difficult to grow because there was a disease (sin) and
tribulations outside Paradise. The vinedressers would work by the sweat of
their faces (Gen 3:19), and many found it easier not to tend the “vineyard” at
all, or expect others to do the serving and preserving on their behalf.
There was another tree in the Garden. It is written that it
is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It was much more than knowledge, but
what to do with the new knowledge of evil in that “good” was already known.
When the “fruit” of that tree was eaten, Adam and Eve developed “reason.” They
were instilled with the ability to rationalize their actions, and afterward they
considered good and evil, and their new nature was to sin with evil deeds.
Back to the vineyard. The vinedressers “reasoned” what to do
with the Son of the Husbandman. So what did they do? “This is the Heir: come,
let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.” So they cast him out of the
vineyard, and killed Him.” Obviously, the Husbandman represents God and the
Heir, His Son, Jesus. Remember that they were to serve and preserve the vine
and the vineyard, but the vinedessers endeavored to destroy the “Tree of Life,”
Jesus. They did that. They cut down the “Tree,” but the Root remained along
with the Living Water, representing the Father and the Holy Ghost of Jesus.
Where did the Tree go? Back to Paradise where it is still
nourished by the Husbandman and provided with much “Water” as was seen by John
the Revelator:
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. (Rev 22:1-4)
The vineyard remains in God’s Garden Paradise. The Garden is
still there, perhaps at the Garden of Gethsemane, but in a different realm that
is hidden by a great gulf or a sea of glass that only those with “peculiar” eyes
can see through. John saw God on His throne through a sea of glass (Rev 15:2)
and the Tree of Life alongside Him. The Tree of Life had a “Face” and the Face
of God, we know from the story of Moses is “Jesus” the Messiah. And when they
see God’s Face on that Tree. There will be good servants dressing and keeping
the Tree of Life by serving and preserving His Name, and the reward for the
good servants is the Name, “Jesus” in their foreheads. It shall be a return to
Paradise, and the vineyard, despite the wicked vinedressers, still flourishes
to this day and forever!
The vinedressers in the parable were scheming. They feared
that the Father might destroy them — the wicked husbandmen whose job it was to
tend the garden — and give the manor (vineyard) to others. In this situation,
the wicked vinedressers sought to diminish God’s “crop” by killing His Son.
They were controlled by evil. In other words, they were working iniquity on behalf
of the Serpent who was still alive in the vineyard. Jesus had not killed the Serpent
in his tree, and he was still crawling in the vineyard of the world. Unbeknownst
to the wicked vinedressers, the Tree of Life would plan His own death, not that
God would die, but to kill the power of the Serpent. They plotted against
the Son, but who ended up dead in the vineyard? Judas Iscariot with Satan in
him hanging from the Judas Tree (which seems to be the Wisdom Tree that was in
the Garden).
Ironically, the wicked vinedressers who were charged with
dressing and keeping the Garden, endeavored to kill the Tree of Life, on His “Tree”
(the Cross), but instead killed the power of the Satan within the Serpent.
God was not killed on the Cross, the power of the Prince of the Power of
the Air was sucked out of him. The virtue of Jesus sucked the evil Satan from
Judas, and he again wonders to and fro until he finds another beast to inhabit;
and it will be the Antichrist.
The wicked vinedressers plotted cunningly. Since the spiritual
disease of sin entered the world, the spiritual “Deep State” always uses the
same tactics. First, they stone or kill the good servants, or the Christians,
to get at the Father, and when that fails, they want to chop down the Tree of
Life to destroy the Vine. The wicked vinedressers were not after the good
servants, or even the Son, but they were after what belongs to the Husbandman
(the Father). They did crucify the Son to get to the Father, but after the Son
suffered death, the Tree of Life is alive and well and One with the Father in
the heavenly Paradise. Whatever wicked people do is to diminish God
because they know that He cannot be killed, but can be diminished by robbing
Him of His land.
The wicked vinedressers were not after the good servants per
se but feared that what was God’s would be willed to them, as is written, “This
is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.” That is
why they killed the good servants and was after Jesus; to get at God for what
was His. What is Lucifer after? “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God” (Isa 14:13). Lucifer, already prince of the
earth, desires to be King of Heaven. He cannot kill God, but he wants His Vineyard!
Note that the wicked ones were willing to kill good servants and the Son to get
at God. They can never get God nor His “vineyard” but can create chaos with the
“trees” in Paradise!
There is a quote by Donald Trump. “When the people are
united, America is totally unstoppable.” If the wicked vinedressers had served
and preserved the metaphorical vines of the vineyard, the Jews would have been
unstoppable. The wicked vinedressers alluded to the Jews who would shortchange
God. The “servants” were the Gentiles who would serve and preserve the vineyard
belonging to God. God is unstoppable, but the people are. If the people, even
today, unite under God, then the American “vineyard” will be preserved for God
by good servants.
A Trump tweet goes, “They are not after me, they are after
you and they get to you through me” (paraphrased). “They” are the “Deep State.”
That is true, the Deep State is after good servants of America and Trump is in
the way as the protector of the US Constitution. Albeit patriotic Christian Americans
are the “good servants” in accordance with the parable, they are merely
collateral damage to get what belongs to God. The Deep State is not after
Americans or even Christians but seek to kill God. That has always been the motive
of the spiritual Deep State from the beginning, through the French Revolution,
Marx’s socialist doctrine, Bolshevism, Nazism, and the current Deep State in
America. Nietsche’s “God is dead” emphasis is the epitome of the Deep State.
Socialism is not after the property that belongs to individuals or the capital
of the people, but the property and Existence of God. They cannot kill God, so
they diminish Him by diminishing God’s people.
In the Garden, there was unity and organization until the
Serpent did his thing. Then the world turned into chaos, each doing what is
right in their own eyes:
8 “Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you” (Deut 128-9)
What did the wicked vinedressers do in the parable. They did
what was right in their own eyes. They became the lynch mob — the KKK and Antifa
of apostolic times. They judged the innocent guilty and murdered them. They became
a mob with there own version of justice. They did not “dress and keep”
the vineyard garden on behalf of the Husbandman (the Father), but for their own
selfish inheritance. If they had been fair in their justice, not doing what was
right in their own eyes, according to their own reasoning, they would have received
rest and an inheritance that God would have given them as Isaiah foresaw.
That should provide some insight. The socialist “Deep State”
cannot kill God but calling Him nothing more than an “opiate for the people” (Communist
Manifesto); that is their endeavor to diminish God. How can God be diminished?
The number one tenet of socialism is to confiscate the “vineyard” (property)
from the people to which God has willed it and give it to the wicked socialist
vinedressers to destroy. Socialism in practice always results in the vineyard
(the property) withering just as the fig tree that Jesus cursed. Socialism has
been a curse against God ever since the Serpent dreamed up that scheme to
undermine God and preserve it to modern times. However, it is God that socialism
desires dead, the “stupid American voters, “ as Jonathan Gruber and Nancy Pelosi
calls voters, are merely collateral damage and Jesus’s Name for them to use in
vain so as to be perceived as loving and caring.
Do you really think that black lives matter, or any lives
for that matter? With the holocaust of abortion wherein unborn black lives do
not matter, do you really think black lives really matter? If you are black,
then you are merely “branches” in the socialist “vineyard” that will be thrown
in the fire after they are harvested for their votes.
(picture credit: Lodi Wine Grape Commission)
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