OCTOBER 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master

 made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” 

 (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord I thank You for each and every day that I am able to 

wake up to Your Promise to “Guide and Protect” me and my household —

 Lord may I never take for granted that each breath I take is a Gift

 from God and may I use the last breath I take on this earth to

 PRAISE THE GREAT I AM GOD to whom I commend my spirit! 

Lord, without Your Grace and Mercy I would be lost in a world of

 darkness and I praise You for the LIGHT! My prayer is that YOU

 keep Your SON shining in my life that I may walk in the 

“paths of righteousness” that Jesus always leads us down the 

Righteous Path to the FATHER if we but “Follow Him”!        

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching about the nation Israel in context of the 

temple being the “house” of God and that God holds the rulers that 

He puts in charge of His House responsible to bear Kingdom fruit. 

Throughout the history of the nation Israel, from the time God first 

called Abraham to “go to a land that I will show you” God has

 held His leaders responsible for their own households and the 

rulers responsible for those over which God places them

 in positions of leadership. God has always made it perfectly clear

 that He will “execute judgement” and Jesus has been confirming

 the “Judgement Day” that is coming at the “end of the age” 

as He has admonished His followers: 

“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, 

and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange

 for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of 

His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each 

according to his works.” 

(Matthew 16:26-27) 

and earlier in His Earthly Ministry Jesus had warned:

 “…do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.

 But rather fear Him who is able to destroy 

both soul and body in hell.”  

(Matthew 10:28) 

Jesus had on the second day of this His final Passover Week 

on earth cursed a Fig Tree because it was not producing kingdom fruit

 and now Jesus has just given a “sign” of “the Son of Man” coming 

again and Jesus a second time uses the Fig Tree — this time the 

Fig Tree which represents the nation of Israel will be used to “mark” 

or to be a “sign” of the “end of the age” and the “Final Judgement”.

 This Question “Who then is a faithful and wise servant…” 

must be viewed in context that one day the “master” who makes

 “rulers” will hold each of us accountable for our actions but, 

being the Loving Master that He is, He gives us warnings and signs

 and is patient with our shortcomings but He has 

PROMISED JUDGEMENT on every created soul 

and it is this promise of “Equal Justice” for all souls that makes 

THE GREAT I AM 

the Fair and Faithful God that HE IS! 

So Jesus tells us to “learn this parable from the fig tree” in reference

 to the “end times” and the “Final Judgement”  and though Jesus gives

 us a “sign” He also gives us a warning —

 “But of that day and hour no one knows, 

not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 

But as the days of Noah were,

 so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

 (Matthew 24:36-37)

 Jesus then goes through several details that will help us identify

 the “coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:39) and then Jesus

 asks the JQ#31 Question: 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, 

whom his master made ruler over his household,

 to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45). 

So with the context clearly being the “coming of the Son of Man”

 which will be at the “end of the age”  — this Question is therefore 

very important for God Himself will ask this Question to every soul 

when each of us stands before Him and we will have to give God

 an “honest answer” — for 

GOD IS TRUTH 

and there can be no lies to or from God!

 So we should “learn the parable of the fig tree” and

 know that God requires “fruit” and expects an honest answer

 from those that would accept the

 

Gift of God 

which is forgiveness of sins 

and everlasting life 

for believing that His Son 

died on the cross at Calvary 

and offers to be the propitiation

 for our sins!

OCTOBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master

 made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” 

 (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, ALL Praise, Glory, and Honor is due to the Name above all 

names, the Holy, Holy Name of Jesus! Lord Jesus, You alone are the 

King of kings and Lord of lords and the Master of my soul. Lord, You and

 you alone are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Only through belief in You

 will TRUTH be revealed to us so Lord I pray that I will draw closer to You

 each day as I try desperately to separate myself from my worldly 

desires and seek only Your Spiritual Gifts that You so abundantly provide,

 gifts that free us from our physical desires of the flesh and reveals to us

 the TRUTH OF GOD! Lord, these Spiritual Gifts can only be received

 when we put our TRUST in You and Your Plans and abandon ours. 

Lord, I pray that our family puts all our TRUST in You and abandons 

ourselves to Your service so that You can use us in a mighty way for

 the “kingdom’s sake” — Lord I am TRUSTING You completely in every

 phase of my life  and pray that the family can come to see Your Love 

and start uttering in their prayers “ABBA FATHER” — and pray as 

I pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.”   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus admonished us at the start of this new Lesson to 

consider the “Fig Tree” as He said, “Now learn…” 

which is also saying that we should consider 

what He has just been Teaching and then build upon the understanding

 of the last Lesson and come to a deeper revelation of the Truth of God. 

Jesus had just been Teaching “signs” about the “end of the age”

 and His “Coming Again” but let us not miss the obvious Truth that Jesus

 is telling us that there  WILL BE   an “end of the age”— and in

 order for Him to “Return” that He must first leave, and this being

 His Last Passover Week on earth, these statements reveal that 

God has a Plan and that Plan includes Jesus having to go away,

 fulfilling the prophecy that only Jesus as the Messiah and the 

Sacrificial Lamb of God, Spotless and Without Blame, could fulfill

 the Word of God. These WORDS OF PROPHECY were spoken at 

the “initiation” of the Passover when God was giving instructions

 to Moses to give to the congregation of Israel on what to do

 to make the “death angel” “pass over” them:

 “Speak to all the congregation 

of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take

 for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, 

a lamb for a household…your lamb shall be without blemish…

a male of the first year (a first born male) …then the whole 

assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.’” 

(Exodus 12:1-7) 

Jesus made His Triumphal Entry at the beginning of the Passover Week 

and His first order of business was “cleaning the temple”, demonstrating

 that the nation had brought judgment upon themselves because they had

 moved away from God and were following the “doctrines of men” — 

further proof that they had come under judgment was demonstrated by 

Jesus cursing the Fig Tree (the Fig tree represents the “congregation

 of Israel” and those God had made “rulers” over Israel and God’s

 “house” in Jerusalem) and clearly telling the nation Israel that God 

was removing Himself and giving His kingdom to another nation 

that bears kingdom fruit. “Now” Jesus is building on those Lessons 

and directs our attention to signs — and again Jesus uses the Fig Tree

 and takes us on a different viewpoint as He leads up to His next question: 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made 

ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45) 

Our attention goes from “signs” to consideration of “service, 

faithfulness, and wisdom” as Jesus reveals the 

Truth of God that “rulers” are “made rulers” 

only by the “master” making it so!  

Moses, the one chosen by God to lead Israel out of bondage, was 

“made ruler” by God — (freedom from bondage is what the 

Passover Week is all about), David was “made king” of Judah by God 

and then Jerusalem was made the capitol of the kingdom of Judah 

because God “made” David victorious over the Canaanites — 

a Promise which God had made to Israel on their way

 to the Promised Land of Canaan that 

“the [Great I AM] LORD GOD of your fathers, 

the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob… has visited you and 

has seen what is done to you in Egypt; and I have said I will bring 

you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites…” 

(Exodus 3:16-17)   

So now Jesus is going to give us instructions on how

 to prevent being cursed to hell by the ““death angel” that will “pass over”

 the whole earth in “judgment” at the “end of the age” and it will center 

around the “Blood” of the “Passover Lamb” that was shed for the sins

 of the world which will fulfill God’s Master Plan for the world!!! 

This is a good time then to consider who is your “Master” and do you 

plan to “apply the blood” of the “Passover Lamb” like God instructed 

all those that had to face the “death angel” in Egypt

 and had ignored God when He said,

 

“I will execute judgment.

 I AM the LORD. 

Now the blood 

shall be a sign for you 

on all the houses where you are. 

When I see the blood, 

I will pass over you.” 

(Exodus 12:12-13) 

All of this ties in nicely to Jesus making the statement in His question 

“…whom his master made ruler over his household…” 

so Jesus is bringing together all the history of Israel with the 

Great I AM God 

of their fathers, freedom from bondage, and the

 Truth of God that God Himself is the MASTER 

and it is God Himself 

that makes us “rulers over [our] own households” 

and God expects us to be responsible in taking care of our family 

as God leads all families to the Promised Land ——— 

“all these things APPLY TODAY” ——— 

so “now” you probably should

 consider the

 “wisdom” and rewards 

of “faithfully serving” 

God 

or do you not fear 

the Promised Judgment!?