Putting to Test the Recovery Version

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Footnote 13:1.1 "At the end of ch. 12 the heavenly King, having been fully rejected by the leaders of the Jewish religion, made a break with them. On that day He went out of the house and sat beside the sea. This is very significant. The house signifies the house of Israel (10:6), and the sea signifies the Gentile world (Dan. 7:3, 17; Rev. 17:15). The King's going out of the house to sit beside the sea signifies that after His break with the Jews, He forsook the house of Israel and turned to the Gentiles. It was after this, while on the seashore, that He gave the parables concerning the mysteries of the kingdom. This signifies that the mysteries of the kingdom were revealed in the church. Hence, all the parables in this chapter were spoken to His disciples, not to the Jews."

This is SOP Lee. Everything is a metaphor (hey! what's a meta for anyway?) and he is free to make up anything that suits his whimsy.

As testallthings mentions, Lee is busy sending disciples to the house of Israel yet has already rejected them. One thing that I harp on so much is trying to make a lot out of the few words in a single verse. I refer to it as "fortune-cookie" reading of the Bible. And no one seems to do it more consistently than . . . well . . . a Chinaman. Or at least a certain Chinaman.