Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain King who heard the cry of His servants who were suffering under great oppression from one of His wicked magistrates. He mercifully apportioned a sovereign homeland for these servants, and commanded them to “love one another”, and to “love the foreigner”. Those servants fell down before Him in thanksgiving saying, “Master, thank You for Your merciful gift. Yes. We will treat others, as well as those within the land, with the kindness that You have shown us this day.” Then the King of that servant was moved, blessed them, and forgave them of all their debts.
But these servants went out and beat those who were already in the land, and took others and put them in bondage, so that they suffered under even greater oppression than the King’s servants had. And when others wanted to come and live in the land which the King had graciously given to the servants, these servants declared, “There is not room for ourselves, and for you” – even though these servants had greatly prospered and were filled with much abundance.
And these same servants began to speak evil of those who sought to live in the land, and made more and more laws that said “This land belongs to us, and no one else”, and even though they flew the banner of the King over themselves, they began to do what they had promised the King they would not do. They did not consider how to extend the abundance of the King to others. Instead, they began to beat those who wanted nothing more than to receive the same mercy from the suffering and oppression that the servants had first received from the benevolent King.
So when the King heard what was being done, He was very grieved, and came to these servants and said to them, “You wicked servants! I heard your cry when you were in bondage to a wicked ruler. I gave you a land of great abundance, which was more than enough in which you and your families could live and prosper. I even forgave you all your debts because you begged Me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servants, just as I had pity on you?” And the King was very angry, and delivered them to the torturers until they should learn to love like the King, and He even made them pay-back all that was due to Him.
So Our heavenly Father also will do to each of us, if from our hearts, we do not learn mercy, and extend His kindness to others.
An Additional Word for the Bride from (Luke 12:35-48)
THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS and the EVIL SERVANTS
35 “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;
36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their Master, when He will return from the wedding, that when He comes and knocks they may open to Him immediately.
37 Blessed are those servants whom the Master, when He comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that He will gird Himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
38 And if He should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
40 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
42 And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his Master will make ruler over His household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant whom his Master will find so doing when He comes.
44 Truly, I say to you that He will make him ruler over all that He has.
45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My Master is delaying His coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,
46 the Master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for Him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
47 And that servant who knew his Master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.