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Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

The one mystery He explained that was hidden in a parable HE revealed plainly, no metaphor, no hyperbole, no analogy but His answer has been the most ignored or re-interpreted into absurdism ever seen. I refer to the mystery of how the enemy sowed his seeds into GOD's garden, the parable of the sinful but good seed, Matt 13.

His explanation reads: Matt 13:36  Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “EXPLAIN to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” 37 He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

The good seed are sinful as they are liable to be pulled up in the judgement of the evil tares.

They are NOT the children / people of the evil one but of the kingdom, sinful believers but never condmened, Jn 3:18.

To be sown into the world CANNOT mean to be created here because the devil does sowing also. Therefore it must refer to its ordinary meaning of 'to remove from a place of storage and to scatter in  place of growth.' What place? Ps 9:17 gives the hint  although it too is often mis-translated: The wicked will RETURN to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.  in which RETURN is changed to go to or turn into, meanings chosen to hide the fact that some people came from Sheol and return there upon their death.

So it is not so much that the parables contain mysteries but that people will not believe the plain teaching of the parables EVEN WHEN they are plainly explained.


 

The mysteries of the kingdom were not part of the revelations of the mysteries given to Paul. Jesus stated, in verses above, that the knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom was given to the twelve Apostles.

You think so? I think he was taught many secrets, just as many as the disciples got, but was not allowed to talk about them, calling the things he heard too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell. Why do you think Christians were not permitted to hear these secrets? 

 Perhap they were for the end time: Daniel 12:4  But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. or even Rev 10:9 And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
 
And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
 

  The parables expounded by Jesus were meant to be hidden to the unbelieving Jews.

Unbelieving secularists AND pew warmers within the Church are kept out of the loop also. Lots of false teachings about the kingdom in this day and age, eh?