575th Post Jesus Said Concerning Parables Con't. - Parables on Forgiveness Con't. - Parable of the Prodigal Son Con't. 2nd Post Luke 15: 11 - 32 Con't.

Luke 15: 11 - 32 Parable of the Prodigal Son Continued 2nd Post.
The other posts in this section were spoken by Jesus 1 - 1.1/2 years into Jesus' earthly ministry.  You noticed by the length of the previous post, Jesus has packed a lot of detail into this parable.  It will take several posts to explain this parable.  Jesus waited until His ministry was almost finished before telling this parable.  This parable has end times connotations.  This is why I believe Jesus waited until the end of His ministry to tell this parable.  If you look at your Bible, Luke Chapter 15, is part of a string of parables Jesus taught on the similar subject, "Repent or Perish".  All of these parables should be looked at together, because they are linked to each other.  It was not done here, but my book will fix this problem.  Parables were taught in the past by themselves without looking at the setting in which Jesus told them.  This I believe, is why many of the parables were misunderstood.  Jesus talks about End Times in His parables and these teachings were not paid attention to.  Many of those parables dealt with the master going on a long journey before judgment was rendered.  If the early church looked into these correctly, they would not have been looking for a immediate return of Jesus Christ.  Jesus told us to watch for the signs, plural, not just look at a few and build a story around that.  If this was done, I believe a lot of the false teaching in the Church, would have died out long ago.  Due to the length of this parable, I will talk and post on section by section.