The Much Needed Incentive That is So Rarely Taught by Albert G Tinley and published by Classics.
Our Lord (it is generally agreed) is the Nobleman going into a far country, to receive for Himself a Kingdom - and to return (Luke 19:12 - 28, with the command to His ten servants: “Occupy till I come” (erchomai).
Left on their own - on probation, to test alike their loyalty and fidelity, their devotion and industry, in making the most, by “trading”, of the ten pounds entrusted to them, they were to be rewarded on His Return with positions of authority - ruling with Him -
in His Kingdom.
“When He was returned, having received the Kingdom, then He commanded these servants to be called unto Him, to whom He had given the money, that He might know how much every man had gained by trading”.
This is the adjudication Parable, a Pre-view of the Bema (or Judgement Seat) of Christ.
