NOVEMBER 05 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)

 NOVEMBER 05  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, just one more day — “TODAY” — let me walk each “TODAY” that You give me according to Your Ways and follow Your Commandments to Love God with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind, and then each day I will Love others as You have Loved me!  

May the Holy Spirit fill my temple with praise that I may truly worship the Holy One. Lord, I am waiting on You Lord Jesus, I seek Your Face and Your Righteousness. Let my every desire be a desire for You. It is only through Your Grace and Mercy that I have any reason to live another “TODAY” — All Praise, Glory, and Honor to the Only Begotten of the Father, Jesus Christ!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is Teaching around the Question, “Who then is a faithful and wise servant…” and He began this Lesson following His discourse on the “Great Tribulation” and the “sign of the Son of Man” appearing in the clouds. Jesus said that the Son of Man will “send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and [His angels] will gather together His elect…” (Matthew 24:29-31) Therefore the context of this Lesson on being a “faithful and wise servant” has to do with the “Son of Man” and the time frame then is AFTER the “Great Tribulation”. 

Jesus first said, “Now learn this parable from the fig tree…” (Matthew 24:32-33) and then when the sign of the fig tree has occurred Jesus promised, “Assuredly, I say to you…Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” (Matthew 24:34-35) 

So far Jesus lists these events: 

{1} The world will witness the “Abomination of Desolation” (Matthew 24:15) described in Daniel 7:8 and Revelation 19:20 followed by 

{2} The “Great Tribulation” (Matthew 24:22) and then the 

{3} “sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven” (Mathew 24:29-31) 

After listing these three events, Jesus starts the “faithful and wise servant”  Lessons with “this parable from the fig tree” (Matthew 24:32-33) which includes the warning that when the sign of the fig tree is completed that “Heaven and earth will pass away…” (Matthew 24:24-35) 

Jesus, being the Master Teacher then gives us details of being a “faithful and wise servant”  much like we read in Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”  and then we get details of that creation in the following chapters so Jesus is doing the same thing with the Lesson on being a “faithful and wise servant”  first by a parable about the fig tree, declaring heaven and earth will pass away, and then Jesus declares “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” (Matthew 24:36) 

Jesus explains the warning, “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” (Matthew 24:44) followed immediately with His Teaching 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) Jesus then praises the “faithful and wise servant”  but the servants that were not doing as the master had commanded, Jesus called them “evil servant(s)” who when the “master of that servant [comes] on a day when the [evil servant] is not looking for the [master’s return] that the [master] will cut [the evil servant] in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:46-51) 

Jesus immediately gives more details about being a “faithful and wise servant”  as He Teaches the Parable of the Ten Virgins in which Jesus stated that “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to…” and then makes it clear that there is a time when all those “prepared” for His Return will go in with Him to His Home and the “door [will be] shut” behind them, but those that were “unprepared at the time [Then]” of His Return will be turned away from the door as Jesus concludes the “preparedness” Lesson: “Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” (Matthew 25:1-13)

Jesus has been consistent in describing the event triggered by the “Son of Man” and at the time of HIS RETURN that all His “faithful and wise servant(s)”  will be “ready” and “[all will] go in with Him to the wedding”. There is great discussion about “when” the “Son of Man will Return” but there is no question whatsoever that HE IS“COMING AGAIN”!!!  

Jesus Christ, in His Mercy and Grace, is giving us every opportunity to “GET READY” just like Jesus told His disciples and followers:  “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  (Luke 21:36)  Now that would be considered a “faithful and wise servant”  don’t you think?!?!?!!?