ON PARABLES AND METAPHYSICS

Jesus sometimes, to make a point, speak in parables: for instance, “The Parable of the Weeds.”

The apostles asked Jesus, ““Why do You speak to them in parables?” Jesus answered, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given” (Mat 10:11), “Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand” (Mat 10:13).

Christ was mystical, not in the sense of magic, but He had the knowledge of God because He is the Person of God; and His knowledge was well beyond the knowledge of mankind.

A recent theologian wrote that Christianity owes much to Plato. Indeed, scripture has many examples of Platonian philosophy. However, Plato was merely trying to understand the subject of truth. The question, “What is truth?” questioned by Plato is “metaphysics” — the reality of abstract things. Plato sought to know the mysteries of God; the things Jesus knew since He was there in the beginning.

Students often think of parables as myths. They are not; they are more so “parallels,” or “allegories.” Jesus used common things for listeners to understand the complex ideas that He presented. Jesus is credited with speaking twenty-five parables. Some see them as myths. However, they were common things to present the truth of the not so-ordinary things that were going on. Perhaps Jesus was using events from long ago to explain current things.

The apostles understood Jesus (verse 11) but the common men who He encountered would not. Apparently, the apostles were not randomly selected, but like Nathanael who Jesus saw under the fig tree, ostensibly in the Garden of Eden before time began (John 1:45-51), Jesus knew all the apostles before time began. Although Nathanael had no guile in him, Judas did. Jesus would have known Judas back in the Garden as Lucifer the “Serpent,” and with guile in him.

The Word (Jesus) told the Serpent because of sin, “Upon your belly shall you go” (Gen 3:13). Judas, as with Nathanael, Jesus saw him under the fig tree, and apparently The Word of God (Jesus) was not speaking of crawling at all but how the guile in the Serpent would be neutered, to wit:

For he (Judas) was numbered with us and had obtained part of this ministry. Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. (Acts 1:17-18)

Judas finally fell out of the “fig tree.” On his belly shall he go was a metaphor. Satan had entered Judas, and at the death of Judas, on his belly Satan would go!

The “fig tree” was a metaphor for the Judas Tree. Nathanael had stood under the Judas tree, not in body but his soul in bodily shape much like the preincarnate Person of Jesus (Luke 3:22).

The Word spoke in parables as well. In fact, the Garden of Eden may have been a metaphoric “Garden” and the “Trees” metaphors for firm things (objects). God planted a living object in the Garden and called it “Adam” and placed him in the ground to multiply.

Not that there may not have been a physical Garden of Eden, but there was “a Garden of metaphors.” The “trees” were parables of men walking. The blind man saw Jesus as a “tree walking” when the Savior approached Him (Mark 8:24).

After sin, Adam and Eve were blind to the things of God whereas before according to sacred literature; before they could see things that were invisible after sin.

Apparently, The Word, Jesus, had opened the eyes of the apostles so they knew things common men would not know. Their senses would have been super: smells would be concentrated, dim things made bright, sounds unheard by others were audible to them, and so on. I believe that all the apostles were pre-determined before the foundation of the world, and they all understood that Jesus was the Voice walking in the Garden in the beginning (Gen 3:8).

So, parables were for those without understanding that Jesus was “The Word” who created all things (John 1:1-14).

There are thousands of parables in the Bible and none of them are fiction. God is truth (John 14:6) and therefore myths could not come from Him.

When Jesus, for instance, revealed “The Parable of the Tares.” It was not made up. The tares were surely in the Garden of Eden, meaning that the tares were not men and women of God but those with the nature of Satan, and Satan himself.

Jews believe that Adam was created on “The Foundation Stone,” now under the  Dome of the Rock. The “Sower” (Jesus) would have sowed seed in the Garden of Eden: 

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth and when the Sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them, but other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Mat 13:5-9) 

The seed of Adam (The Image of God) was sown on The Foundation Stone, and he sprang up but did not take root. He was not rooted in God but was as a tree walking. He trespassed going where he should not go, and there, Adam was scorched by Lucifer — “The Bringer of Light” whose Light was meant to consume Adam. God then transplanted Adam among thorns: “Thorns also and thistles shall it (the world) bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field” (Gen 3:18).

Jesus was not making this stuff up; He was recounting His previous experiences with mankind and the world. Therefore, the parable was so that the common man could understand the mystery of God. Indeed, the Creation is the greatest mystery ever, but Jesus as “The Word” revealed the happenings in the beginning the best way that was available.

Hence, the parables are hidden truths revealed to mankind, and the apostles inherently knew of those things because they were there as the world was founded. Jesus validated my perception when He said this: 

I in them, and You in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them, as You have loved Me.

Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me: for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:23-24) 

All the apostles had foreknown Jesus from the Garden of Eden. It may not be that they understand why they unquestionably followed Jesus, but that they knew Him from a previous experience before time ever began.

In scientific terms, all the apostles were “entangled” with Jesus in the Garden. They were “vines” in a sense that clung to the invisible man, Jesus as He walked in the Garden. One was entangled so strenuously that he followed Jesus from before time to His time. That man from before time was Judas with Satan in him. Satan could have been the demon spirit in the soul of Judas. That unidentified “alien man” in the forbidden tree; the one that had carnal knowledge with Adam’s woman (Gen 4:1), would have been Judas.

Judas (Hebrew Yehuda) is spelled Yod – hey – waw – dalet – hey. Judas means “praised.” Not understanding all the literal meanings of Yehuda, it seems that because of the dalet in the name, Judas was a “lord” (Yod) that was beheld both in the past and in the future since he was beheld (hey) before the “door” of the dalet and afterward as well. That “door” may have been through time.

Jesus knew Judas throughout time. 

An evil disease, say they, cleaves fast unto Him: and now that he lies, he shall rise up no more.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of My bread, has lifted up his heel against Me. (Psalm 41:8-9) 

David knew mystical stuff. Satan in the person of Judas cleaved to The Word from the beginning in the Garden until he betrayed Jesus to be crucified.

Judas was a “familiar friend” to Jesus, and so surely were all the apostles; they all knew Jesus from under the fig tree in the Garden because their immortal souls were the metaphorical “trees” of the Garden.

Remember the curse of Satan? The Word foresaw the person of Judas among the trees of the Garden; “I will put enmity between you (Satan) and the woman, and between your seed (Judas) and her seed (Jesus); it (Judas) shall bruise your (Jesus’s) head, and you (Jesus) shall bruise his (Judas’s) heel. (Gen 3:15).

Judas was a “familiar friend” of Jesus from the beginning and so were the apostles. Jesus Himself selected all His “familiar friends” to be apostles, and Nathanael was one of them. Jesus even selected Paul.

On the other hand, the apostles selected Matthias by casting lots (Acts 1:26). Jesus had not been as familiar with Matthias, albeit the apostles knew him. Thereafter, Paul assumed the role of the twelfth apostle and Matthias was lost to history. Jesus had not seen Matthias under the fig tree, so Jesus did not choose him.

Hopefully the point was made; there are no myths in scripture. Jesus related His many experiences so that the common man could understand the metaphysics of the mystery of God.

Jesus saw me under the fig tree, and I had guile in me. My guile came from Eve, the "mother of all living,"