1. What is the vineyard symbolic of?
    1. Right Answer!The earth.
      • No.
    2. The Promised Land.
      • Yes, God established the nation of Israel and that the priests and religious leaders were to take care of the people, that is, be God's children, but they were wicked.
        Isaiah 5:1-8
        I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. 2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit. 3 "Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad? 5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. 6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it." 7 The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress. 8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land. (NIV)
    3. The Church.
      • No, this is not about the church. Jesus is talking to the religious leaders of that day.
    4. Rome.
      • No.

     

     

  2. Who is the landowner?
    1. The Jews.
      • No.
    2. The Romans.
      • No.
    3. Right Answer!God the Father.
      • Yes, God owns everything, and especially Israel, his vineyard.
    4. The Church.
      • No, this is not about the church.

     

     

  3. Who are the tenants?
    1. The Jews.
      • Well, yes and no, but this is not the best answer.
    2. The Romans.
      • No.
    3. The faithful in Israel.
      • No.
    4. Right Answer!The religious leaders of that day.
      • Yes. The parable is about how the chief priest and teachers of the law, that is, the religious leaders have not been doing God's will. They have killed those that the Lord has sent to them, and will also kill the Son of God. God will then kill them and send them off to Hell and will set up those that will do his will.

     

     

  4. What fruit did the landowner desire?
    1. Rent money.
      • No, God doesn't want anybody's money.
    2. Right Answer!Good works.
      • Yes, God wants those in the vineyard to do right, to obey him, and walk in righteousness and holiness.
    3. Grapes and wine.
      • This is a parable, he is not looking for literal fruit.
    4. A prosperous and powerful land.
      • No.

     

     

  5. Who is the landowners son?
    1. Right Answer!Jesus.
      • Yes, Jesus was prophesying concerning what the religious leaders would do to him.
    2. Caesar.
      • No.
    3. Joseph.
      • No.
    4. Herod.
      • No.

     

     

  6. Who are those that the tenants abused?
    1. The Jews.
      • This is not the best answer. There is some truth in it though.
    2. The Romans.
      • No.
    3. The Christians.
      • No, there weren't any Christians then.
    4. Right Answer!The prophets.
      • Yes, Jesus was talking about how the religious leaders have persecuted and murdered all those that he had sent to them.

     

     

  7. Who are the builders?
    1. Right Answer!The chief priest and teachers of the law.
      • Yes, this is the best answer.
    2. The children of Israel.
      • No, not all of the children of Israel rejected the capstone. The apostles were children of Israel, and all of the earliest believers.
    3. The Romans.
      • No.
    4. The Babylonians.
      • No.

     

     

  8. Who, or what, does the stone that the builders rejected represent?
    1. The Bible.
      • There is some truth to this answer, but it is not the best answer.
    2. The Law of Moses.
      • This is not the best answer.
    3. Right Answer!Jesus Christ.
      • Yes. Jesus is the rock. He is the stone that causes men to fall.
    4. Egypt.
      • No.

     

     

  9. Who are they that fall on the stone?
    1. Right Answer!The Christians.
      • Yes, those that fall on the stone are held up by the stone.
    2. The Jews.
      • No, the Jews as a whole reject the stone, and so it falls on them.
    3. The Romans.
      • No.
    4. The Gentiles.
      • There is some truth to this, as the church age is the age in which the covenant is mostly for the Gentiles, but this is not the best answer.

     

     

  10. Who are they that the stone falls on?
    1. The Christians.
      • No, the Christians are not crushed by the stone.
    2. Right Answer!Those that reject Jesus Christ.
      • Yes, anyone that rejects the stone, will be crushed by the stone, that is, they will not go and live with God in heaven.
    3. The Pharisees and Sadducees .
      • No, not all of the Pharisees were lost.
    4. The Gentiles.
      • No.

     

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