What is the meaning of the Parable of the VineGrowers

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In brief, The Parable of the VineGrowers is about God replacing murderous Israel over the entire Old Testament, with the Church.

Matthew 21:33
Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce. 35 The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them. 37 But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, "They will respect my son.' 38 But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.' 39 They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?'' 41 They said to Him, ""He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.'' 42 Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, the stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief corner stone; this came about from the lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'? (Psalm 118:22-23) 43 Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation

(some trannys weakly say "people"),

producing the fruit of it. 44 And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces

(God always breaks our pride during the salvation process);

but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust

(think Jewish Diaspora).''

45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them. 46 When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.



Notice that when God the father says in verse

Matt 21:43 Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a NATION

(the Greek here is ethnoi for ethnicity, so NATION is a better translation than PEOPLE),

producing the fruit of it.

this is REPLACEMENT theology, not two concurrent covenants existing side by side (Christianity and Judaism today). The corrupt vine-growers here, symbolize not just the last Generation Jews (30-70 AD), but all of Judaism, as will be shown below, in Mt 23:29ff. Who are the

“people producing the fruit of it”

to whom the vineyard was given in place of the Jews? Was it the Romans? or perhaps the Samaritans? No, they are the

“people who are not a people”

, i.e. the "Bride of Christ" the Christians. Those that have replaced the Jews as the holders of the franchise on the Kingdom of God, per verse 43 are now the church as the new covenant people-of-God. And the old covenant has been done away, along with its people, temple, priesthood, etc. which were all "types of Christ". There is no need for the "type" to hang around, once the real messiah has come.

We (Christians) are of:
1) no particular nationality, i.e. of all nationalities,

Rom 9:24 "even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

Consider also

1 John 2:2 "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world."

(comment: this means not for we Jews only but for the sins of every race in the whole world. It does NOT mean Jesus paid for the sins of each and every man. Limited Atonement of the 5 points of Calvinism is a true Christian doctrine. Otherwise how can God send anyone to hell on Judgment day, if their sins have already been paid for. Even the sin of unbelief). As He also says in

Hosea, I will call those who were NOT My People, My People."

The Jewish Remnant gets saved (when they give up being Jewish, & start being Christian). When they give up trusting in their Jewishness to make them the Special or Covenant or Chosen People, and start trusting in their Christianity i.e. in Jesus. The remnant is only saved when they cross over & become the

“people who are not a people”.



2) no particular tongue, i.e. of all tongues Acts 2:8 1 Cor 14:21 (this was a sign, to unbelieving gentiles, that they witnessed the power of God by hearing the gospel in their own language & get saved, & a sign to the Jews, that they their monopoly on the word of God, the scriptures, was ending. That they were in the LAST DAYS or END TIMES of their age, i.e. that they were being replaced. Always before this, that portion of the word of God that was allotted to be inspired to humans (as opposed to Psa 19 "the heavens declare the glory of God") was only allowed to go out in the Language of the Jews, and the Jews knew this. Which is why they made such a slovenly effort on the Septuagint, they weren't sure they were even supposed to be translating Gods word into Greek.) Which is why we should regard those translations based on the Septuagint as questionable.

3) a royal priesthood, an holy nation.

I Peter 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, (8) And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: where unto also they were appointed. (9) But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.



Continuing on with the parable of the Vinegrowers: when Jesus said,

Matt 21:44 "And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; ; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust".

Consider, that all who become born again must become broken to pieces

(unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies ...) the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken spirit and contrite heart O God Thou wilt not despise...

To the Jews He was a "stone of stumbling and a rock of offense"

Now consider if the hammer of Gods vengeance comes down on you.

44 ... but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.

The Jews were about to go into another Diaspora after 70 AD, just as they had in 586 BC. They were about to get scattered like dust (or "ground to powder" as the KJV says). This time permanently. Judaism was going to end in 70 AD. Now, it's true, that bloodline Jews resettled Jerusalem and even reorganized to rebel against Rome again in 134 AD under the third Jewish revolt (against Rome) also known as the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Here 6 Roman legions wiped out over half a million so called Jews. Of course this cant compare to the over 3 million that died in Jerusalem alone during 70 AD (the First Jewish Revolt).

But the main thing to remember here is that after 70 AD Jerusalem-Israel lost its "chosen people of God" status. Here in 134 AD they are like any other secular country in Gods eyes, just as those so called Jews are merely unbelievers (non-Christians) in Gods eyes. They have no covenant relationship w. Yahweh and are self deceived into thinking they are still somehow Gods chosen people. Just as the Jews of today are self-deceived. In verse 44 “scatter him like dust” this is the stone cut without hands coming down on the metal man of Daniel 2:44, 45. What then should we think of that people/nation (America) that tries to “unscatter them and put them back into the land, reversing Gods judgment”. Will not God judge (as in punish) them .

The common objection raised here by dispensationalists is: the only people that got replaced in the parable of the vinegrowers (Mt 21:33) were those corrupt scribes and pharisees of Jesus day. The proof of this is “when they heard the parables of Jesus they understood that He was talking about THEM, meaning supposedly just the scribes and pharisees, not the whole nation of Israel. The rebuttal is, 1) That doesn't fit the model of the parable (replacing an ethnoi with a few scribes and pharisees), and 2) maybe the “them” that the scribes and pharisees understood Jesus talking about was themselves as the group saying “come let us kill him and seize his inheritance”, and the people guilty of putting to death the groups of slaves sent by the landowner, were the nation of Israel all though out time , since multiple groups of slaves (prophets) were not sent out over time to witness to these scribes and pharisees personally. So, the safest assumption here is that the scribes and pharisees understood both, that the son killers were them personally, and the group-of-slaves killers was all Israel past.

2) What is getting replaced with what? Replacement theology holds that the nation of Israel, the whole people of Israel is getting replaced by another nation (KJV says “nation”, NAS & NIV says “people”, for Mt 21:43 the Greek here is ETHNOI from which we get our English word “ethnicity” for other uses of ethnoi see acts 24:2 & Rm 10:19), and that nation doing the replacing is the church (universal) or Christianity per 1 Peter 2:4 ff. The Christian-Zionist churchmen say that just the scribes and pharisees got replaced, and NOT the whole nation of Israel. They hold out, that the nation of Israel continues down to today based upon all the 'forever' promises God made to Israel. And secondly, they belong back in the land, ALL the land God promised to Abraham, from the great river (Euphrates) to the Great Sea (Med Sea).

What these stupid Christian Zionists, being Bible Babies (babes in their knowledge of Scripture), dont know, is that those "forever" promises to Israel were CONDITIONAL. That the covenant or deal was a SCHOLARSHIP. If Israel kept up its good grades, the deal would go on FOREVER. Did Israel keep up its obedience to Yahweh?

Jeremiah 18:1,2 Hear O Israel, can I not smash you against he potters wheel and re-make you into another vessel (the church); Josh 23:10 All the land promises were FULFILLED under Joshua, per the Almighty; Judges 2:1; Mt 3:5; 1 Chronicles 28:4,9; Josh 23:19-20; Josh; 21:43; 1 Samuel 2:30; Psalm 132:12; Isaiah 24:5 (Israel CHANGED the everlasting covenant); Psalm 89 38But You have rejected and refused, You have been full of wrath against (Lit. "with") Your anointed. 39You have repudiated (scornfully rejected) the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust (Lit to the ground). 44You have put an end to his splendor And cast his throne to the ground. 45You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame.



However, even if we go with the Dispensational model for a while, (that the covenant with Israel was an UNCONDITIONAL covenant) and that in Matt 21:43 Jesus was just threatening to replace the corrupt rulers with other more righteous rulers of the Jewish people, not replace the whole nation or ethnicity, then the question now is raised: “replaced by whom”? History doesn't show that the corrupt scribes and pharisees of Jesus day were REPLACED by other scribes and pharisees more righteous than the crucifiers of Jesus, of whom it could be said "bearing the fruit of it" and "who will give Him His proceeds at His proper seasons". Every rabbi and Jewish leader since the crucifixion of Christ has been a messiah denier (or they got assassinated or kicked out of Judaism). They show, in the verses of their Talmud that THEY WOULD INDEED CRUCIFY CHRIST ALL OVER AGAIN, IF GIVEN THE CHANCE, EVEN AS THEY PLAN TO WIPE OUT ALL OF CHRISTIANITY. Consider the below quotations from prominent Jewish authorities and from the Talmud.

Death Sentence Endorsed Today
It would be a mistake to believe that contemporary promoters of the Noahide Laws have abandoned the Talmud doctrine that idolaters (i.e., Christians) be put to death for practicing their religion. The Noah's Covenant web site calls for the banning of Christmas and other Christian holidays, and endorses the call for the death sentence for Christians. Noah's Covenant quotes Rabbi Schneerson from Volume VIII of Likkutei Sichos, an anthology of the Schneersons' works. (71) Rabbi Schneerson in turn quotes Maimonides (the Rambam).
… according to the known Jewish ruling that Christians are idol worshipers.
— Maimonides, quoted by Rabbi Schneerson (63)
A gentile … is liable for the death penalty … if he has invented a religious holiday for himself … The general principle is we do not allow them to make new religious rituals and to make 'mitzvahs' for themselves by their own devices. Rather they may either become a Ger Tzeddek and accept all the Mitvahs; or [t]he (the Noahide) should stand fast in his Torah (the seven Noahide Laws) without adding or diminishing … and if he does make some new 'mitzvah,' we lash him, punish him, and inform him that he is obligated with the death penalty for this …
— Maimonides (the Rambam) (64)
Under Judaism, what happens to those who worship a false god?
MISHNAH. HE WHO ENGAGES IN IDOL-WORSHIP [IS EXECUTED]. IT IS ALL ONE WHETHER HE SERVE IT, SACRIFICE, OFFER INCENSE, MAKE LIBATIONS, PROSTRATE HIMSELF, ACCEPT IT AS A GOD, OR SAY TO IT, 'THOU ART MY GOD' …
— Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 60b Soncino 1961 Edition, page 410 Min, Minim, Minuth
In the Talmud, Christians are specifically described as "Judeo-Christians" or "min" (plural "minim"). The following definition of "minuth" in the Glossary for the Soncino Talmud makes the Talmudic attitude to Christianity clear:
Minuth — Heresy, the belief in more than one Power, especially Judeo-Christianity.
— Soncino Talmud Glossary
For more, go to http://www.comeandhear.com/editor/america_1.html

Back to the Parable of the Vinegrowers, If this is similar to whatever kind of thinking was in the heads of the "righteous" scribes and pharisees that "replaced" the corrupt vinegrowers, well, this is hardly, "given to a people bearing the fruit of it" or "giving the Landowner his proper proceeds at His proper seasons". The second problem with this logic is you don't replace a small group of corrupt leaders w. a whole nation, that's apples to oranges, stick w. apples to apples, replace one nation w. another nation. Check the Greek word here Mt 21:43 "people" or "nation" ethnos or ethnoi (plural) to see if it means an ethnicity or a nation or it it means just the few leaders of the people.

3) When were GROUPS of prophets ever sent to these corrupt scribes and pharisees of Jesus day? But GROUPS were sent to the whole nation of Israel over time, and they virtually always persecuted the prophets,

MT 23:29. Luke 13:33,35 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate:

4) What then do you think that LANDOWNER (God the Father) will do to those vinegrowers WHEN HE COMES. The CZ (Christian-Zionist) model says WHEN HE COMES means when death comes to these individual corrupt scribes and pharisees that put Jesus to death. Supposedly they are being punished for

"beat one, killed another, stoned a third"

treatment to the groups of prophets which the Father has sent to them also, besides killing His only son. Does that sound like a valid "coming" of God, when death visits a bunch of corrupt scribes and pharisees? Wouldn't that coming get stretched out over approx 20 years as each individual scribe and pharisee died in their own time and in their own way, some of cancer, some of heart attack, etc. And then the next verse

"He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out his vineyard to other vinegrowers (other scribes and pharisees ) who will give him his proceeds at His proper times.

That new renting out process must take place over that same 20 years or so, as each corrupt leader died, they got replaced by a new righteous leader. Does that sound like a plausible model for what is happening in this parable? Oh well, you know, God can do anythng He wants to, into the far future, the Dispys would say. Just wait long enough (thousands of years) and He will replace their leadership w. righteous Jews and all Jews will come back to Jesus per Romans 11. How does that punish THAT GENERATION of corrupt Jewish leaders that killed the son? If the father/land-owner delays "when He comes" long enough, it will be too late to effectively punish the corrupt share-croppers (vinedressers). They will effectively have stolen the land from the landowner, never paid their land-rents, and killed all his bill collectors, and laughed at the father/landowner. Our God may be LONG SUFFERING, but He is not FOREVER SUFFERING. Punishment should preferrably happen to the corrupt vinedressers in their lifetime. Enter the Preterist RT Model.

The RT (Replacement Theology) model says "when He comes" means 70 AD, when God came in wrath and vengeance on the Jewish nation-people, and He did indeed "bring them to a wretched end" under the Romans. The RT model says the vinegrowers that are getting replaced is the priestly nation of Israel, which was called to be priests to the whole world. They had a franchise given to them that no other nation had, see below. The RT model says

"he came unto His own, but His own RECEIVED HIM NOT"

means not just a group of scribes and pharisees but this entire

"evil and adulterous generation of Jews."

The RT model says the new

"other vinegrowers which will give Him his proceeds at His proper seasons" = the Christians.

5) What does “therefore the kingdom of heaven (God) will be taken away from you” mean? What is this “Kingdom of heaven”? Is it just talking about taking away the salvation of a group of scribes and pharisees? In that case, then "and it will be given to a nation-people producing the fruit of it" must mean giving that same salvation to the next leaders of Israel, the next righteous crop of Jewish vinegrowers. The problem with this is it does NOTHING FOR THE VINEYARD. This is like the Father saying "Oh my, you scribes and pharisees have been bad and have been mis-managing the vineyard and not giving me my Fruit. I'm going to send you to hell when you die, and send your replacements to heaven when they die, that will heal my vineyard and get Me My fruit on time, right? What a joke. The vineyard (people) continues to suffer all the while it is under corrupt leadership.

What is needed is a temporal (in this world) judgment of the vinegrowers. That is what the RT model provides. This

"kingdom of heaven or kingdom of god"

means that the Jews were the former Holders of the franchise on the Kingdom of God compared to all the other gentile nations. They were the priestly nation to minister to the world. They are that

great city (Babylon the Great) Rev 17:18 that reigns over the kings of the earth,

or literally in the Greek

HAS A KINGDOM OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.

(see main web page for the Book of Revelation applying to pre 70 AD Israel). We are talking spiritual kingdom here, not physical. Though it would have physical effects. When everyone practices

the ten commandments, and Love thy Neighbor as Thyself, and Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,

it makes for peace and prosperity in ANY land. And it was supposed to spread through-out all the earth, with Israel being the priestly nation, the example for all the other nations to follow

Deuteronomy 4:5-7 5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess. 6Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” 7For what nation is so great as to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him? 8And what nation is so great as to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

What did the Jews do instead? Just like Lucifer, who was supposed to be a tutor to Adam, lead him and all his progeny to glorify God (thats why he had casual access to Adam and Eve and could come and go into the garden whenever he wanted), but after Lucifer fell and became Satan, he saw the opportunities Earth presented (he could be god of this whole planet) he became a selfish, force for evil, trying to set up his own kingdom for his own glory. Same thing happened with the watchers in the book of Enoch. The Book of Enoch page 15 section 3) REBELS AMONG THE WATCHERS 6.1 And it came to pass, when the sons of men had increased, that in those days there were born to them fair and beautiful daughters. 6.2 And the Angels, the sons of Heaven, saw them and desired them. And they said to one another: "Come, let us choose for ourselves wives, from the children of men, and let us beget, for ourselves, children." 6.3 And Semyaza, who was their leader, said to them: "I fear that you may not wish this deed to be done and that I alone will pay for this great sin." 6.4 And they all answered him, and said: "Let us all swear an oath, and bind one-another with curses, so not to alter this plan, but to carry out this plan effectively." 6.5 Then they all swore together and all bound one another with curses to it. 6.6 And they were, in all, two hundred and they came down on Ardis, which is the summit of Mount Hermon. And they called the mountain Hermon because on it they swore and bound one another with curses. 6.7 And these are the names of their leaders: Semyaza, who was their leader, Urakiba, Ramiel, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Daniel, Ezeqiel, Baraqiel, Asael, Armaros, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsiel, Satael, Turiel, Yomiel, Araziel. 6.8 These are the leaders of the two hundred Angels and of all the others with them. 7.1 And they took wives for themselves and everyone chose for himself one each. And they began to go into them and were promiscuous with them. And they taught them charms and spells, and they showed them the cutting of roots and trees. 7.2 And they became pregnant and bore large giants. And their height was The Book of Enoch page 16 three thousand cubits. (a figurative or symbolic number meant to compare their power to that of humans) 7.3 These devoured all the toil of men; until men were unable to sustain them. 7.4 And the giants turned against them in order to devour men. 7.5 And they began to sin against birds, and against animals, and against reptiles, and against fish, and they devoured one another's flesh, and drank the blood from it. 7.6 Then the Earth complained about the lawless ones. 8.1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields, and breastplates. And he showed them the things after these, and the art of making them; bracelets, and ornaments, and the art of making up the eyes, and of beautifying the eyelids, and the most precious stones, and all kinds of coloured dyes. And the world was changed. 8.2 And there was great impiety, and much fornication, and they went astray, and all their ways became corrupt. 8.3 Amezarak taught all those who cast spells and cut roots, Armaros the release of spells, and Baraqiel astrologers, and Kokabiel portents, and Tamiel taught astrology, and Asradel taught the path of the Moon. 8.4 And at the destruction of men they cried out; and their voices reached Heaven. 9.1 And then Michael, Gabriel, Suriel and Uriel, looked down from Heaven and saw the mass of blood that was being shed on the earth and all the iniquity that was being done on the earth. 9.2 And they said to one another: "Let the devastated Earth cry out with the sound of their cries, up to the Gate of Heaven. 9.3 And now to you, Oh Holy Ones of Heaven, the souls of men complain, saying: "Bring our complaint before the Most High." 9.4 And they said to their Lord, the King: "Lord of Lords, God of Gods, King of Kings! Your glorious throne endures for all the generations of the The Book of Enoch page 17 world, and blessed and praised! 9.5 You have made everything, and power over everything is yours. And everything is uncovered, and open, in front of you, and you see everything, and there is nothing that can be hidden from you. 9.6 See then what Azazel has done; how he has taught all iniquity on the earth and revealed the eternal secrets that are made in Heaven. 9.7 And Semyaza has made known spells, he to whom you gave authority to rule over those who are with him. 9.8 And they went into the daughters of men together, lay with those women, became unclean, and revealed to them these sins. 9.9 And the women bore giants, and thereby the whole Earth has been filled with blood and iniquity. 9.10 And now behold the souls which have died cry out and complain unto the Gate of Heaven, and their lament has ascended, and they cannot go out in the face of the iniquity which is being committed on the earth. 9.11 And you know everything, before it happens, and you know this, and what concerns each of them. But you say nothing to us. What ought we to do with them, about this?" The Book of Enoch page 18 translators comments and notes The Book of Enoch page 19 4) THE MOST HIGH OF THE WATCHERS SPEAKS OUT 10.1 And then the Most High, the Great and Holy One, spoke and sent Arsyalalyur to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 10.2 "Say to him in my name; hide yourself! And reveal to him the end, which is coming, because the whole earth will be destroyed. A deluge is about to come on all the earth; and all that is in it will be destroyed. 10.3 And now teach him so that he may escape and his offspring may survive for the whole Earth." 10.4 And further the Lord said to Raphael: "Bind Azazel by his hands and his feet and throw him into the darkness. And split open the desert, which is in Dudael, and throw him there. 10.5 And throw on him jagged and sharp stones and cover him with darkness. And let him stay there forever. And cover his face so that he may not see the light. 10.6 And so that, on the Great Day of Judgment, he may be hurled into the fire. 10.7 And restore the Earth which the Angels have ruined. And announce the restoration of the Earth. For I shall restore the Earth so that not all the sons of men shall be destroyed because of the knowledge which the Watchers made known and taught to their sons. 10.8 And the whole Earth has been ruined by the teaching of the works of Azazel; and against him write: ALL SIN." 10.9 And the Lord said to Gabriel: “Proceed against the bastards, and the reprobates, and against the sons of the fornicators. And destroy the sons of the fornicators, and the sons of the Watchers, from amongst men. And send them out, and send them against one another, and let them destroy themselves in battle; for they will not have length of days. 10.10 And they will petition you, but the petitioners will gain nothing in

So, to review. Satan entrusted with knowledge and power by God to tutor humanity, fell by being tempted to set up his own rule over the whole planet. Same with the fallen angels in the ande-deluvian world. Same with the Jews, after the flood, who took over the whole Roman Empire. Then when Rome fell and the Catholic church reigned supreme and was a great light in the middle ages restoring civilization to the world and leading them to Christ, she also fell into temptation and became an harlot, that the reformation had to try to straighten out. Today, the Talmudists who are fake, phony "Jews" are the giants in the land. Theirs is superior knowledge (given to them by Satan at the top, Rothchilds, Goldman Sachs, etc.). Which allows them to make superior money, which gives them superior power over men. Only the Jews had a spiritual kingdom over all the other nations. The Jews were priests to the world, at this time. Offering up sacrifices for the entire world, in their temple. The Jews, as a nation were supposed to be modeling the Law of God to the other nations.

Revelation 18:23 ... for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorcery's were all nations deceived. (just like the "so called" Jews of today have done, which "great men of the earth" today do not answer to Rothschild or one of his subsidiaries", what nation has not been deceived by Zionist media?) Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

(Comment: This has to be Jerusalem, This verse links Jerusalem to the “great city”.)

Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. (comment: This tells us that spiritual Babylon is the same as the “great city”) Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. (comment: further proof that spiritual Babylon is the same as the “great city”) Revelation 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth

(literally which has a kingdom over the kings of the earth; this links “the woman” in Revelation to Babylon. This kingdom that Jerusalem has “over the kings of the earth” is a spiritual kingdom, and in the parable of the vinegrowers God the Father takes away this spiritual kingdom from the Jews and gives it to the Christians)

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (comment: assuming “my people” here are the Christians, evidently there were some Christians living in Jerusalem-spiritual Babylon-Sodom-Egypt-the woman). Revelation 18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, (comment: just like today, the Jews were the earthly masters of trading and merchantmen. But when Rome marched on Jerusalem, all the merchants used to dealing with the Jews, “stood afar off for the fear of her torment”. Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. (comment: Jesus said Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following:for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. ... Acts 7:51 (Stephen speaking) Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. then they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth (at which point they Drove Stephen out and stoned him). See also Rev 18:24 through Rev 19:2

Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Babylon and that "great city" is Jerusalem (see preceding discussion on Rev 11:8 and Rev 14:8, also consider 1 Peter 5:13 She who is in Babylon, sends you greeting (this has to be the church in Jerusalem, what would Peter know about a church in Mesopotamia (modern day Hillah, Iraq, but 1347 miles away from Jerusalem) since Paul was the missionary to the gentiles, also if you take it literally, no woman in Babylon has such great significance for Peter to pass along "greetings" to the Church universal, which is to whom the letters of 1st and 2nd Peter were addressed in about AD 64 "christians scattered throughout the Roman world, referred to as "aliens" .) No, the best assumption is that Peter was in Jerusalem, or had fled Judea due to the Zionist persecution of Christians but was speaking for the Jerusalem church (that was his old stomping ground).

(Comment: the Temple looked like the male part of a millstone) Rev 18:22,23 would stop for a few years after the Romans desolated Jerusalem in 70 AD, but then they would pick back up again, as Jerusalem got resettled However, no longer as “the chosen people” nor as the people of God. Now Jerusalem is like any other secular city, in Gods eyes. So the sound of all these things did cease forever in the “great city” since its “greatness” ended in 70 AD. Rev 19:3 is further proof that Judaism has ended, permanently. The city goes on, but not as a special city anymore. Blood Jews lived on, after 70 AD, but no longer were they in covenant with God, their “chosen people” franchise ended. Just as Rome (the beast) lived on after 70 AD, but its Daniel four living creatures, metal man 4 empires prophetic role (as a container for the people of God, as an empire that could be influenced or in some cases controlled, by the Jews to spread the knowledge of Yahweh (as was Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome) and lastly as a peace spreader and common language spreader (e.g. the Pax Romana and Greek becoming the international language. Imaging how difficult it would have been for the Jews to evangelize the whole known world without these empires, if the Jews had to influence 10,000 little fiefdoms and duchies, etc.) That role as that kind of beast ended for Rome in 70 AD, when the stone cut without hands (Jesus) smashed the Roman beast Nero and the Julio-Claudian line (the consummation of all 4 empires) and launched the kingdom age, the church age, which (eventually) filled the whole earth.

So, back to the parable of the vinegrowers, the RT (Replacement Theology) position is that when Jesus spoke this parable, to the hostile Jews hearing Him at that time, when He said "Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven/God will be taken AWAY from you (Jews) and it will be given to a nation producing the fruit of it", He meant their Kingdom of Heaven franchise, their status as a nation that "has a (spiritual) kingdom" over the kings of the earth. It would be taken AWAY from the Jews and it would be given to the Christians. i.e. Jesus was plundering the strong mans house and giving all the riches (spiritual) to the Church per Mark 3:27, Luke 11:21. RT explains ALL the anti-Jewish parables of Jesus. Mt 25:13-30 parable of the talents, parable of the 10 virgins returning from the wedding Lk 12:36, the 3 years barren Fig Tree Lk 13:6 , and the nobleman receiving a kingdom Lk 19:12;