The Landowner’s Development of a Planted Vineyard Property

• Walled Boundary (No Facility Confusion)
• Dug Winepress (State-of-the-Art Installation)
• Watchtower Built (Safety for Others)

The Tenants’ Abuse of Property Privileges

• Seized Servants

1. Beaten
2. Killed
3. Stoned

• Son Sacrificed

1. Took
2. Threw
3. Killed

“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. [...] “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.  Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.   “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’  So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

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• Gathered Belongings and Inheritance
• Set Off for a Distant Country
• Squandered Wealth in Wild Living

Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

He Was Sure He Knew What He Wanted … Until He Found Out that He Didn’t

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