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“A Vineyard of Foaming Wine”

The Vineyard and Its Owner

The account reports, candidly and honestly: “Now Noah started off as a farmer and proceeded to plant a vineyard.

In Isaiah 5:1-7 “the vineyard of Jehovah” is said to be “the house of Israel.”

(Isaiah 5:2; footnote; Jeremiah 2:21) Therefore, Jehovah declares that he will remove his protective “hedge” from around the nation.

Besides the tribe of Levi, the following exemptions from military service were granted: (1) the man who “has built a new house and has not inaugurated it”; (2) “the man that has planted a vineyard and not begun to use it”; (3) “the man that has become engaged to a woman and has not taken her”; (4) the one who marries “should not go out into the army, [but] . . . should continue exempt at his house for one year”; (5) “the man that is fearful and fainthearted.” —De 20:5-8; 24:5.

Summary: Prompted by Jezebel, King Ahab commits murder to obtain a vineyard.

If she had skills in spinning and weaving, she could even run her own business.

Love does not jealously begrudge others their possessions or advantages, as King Ahab jealously begrudged Naboth his vineyard. —1 Kings 21:1-19.

He likened God, his Father, to the owner of the vineyard, who traveled abroad and left it in the charge of cultivators, who represented the Jewish clergy.

No, the vineyard produces wild grapes.

Naboth’s vineyard in Jezreel was within sight of King Ahab’s palace.

In this way Naboth was put to death by a perversion of justice.

The owner explains: “The vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plantation of which he was fond.” —Isaiah 5:7a.

(2Ki 10:15-17) Jehonadab laid a command on his family (whether before or after the experience with Jehu is not stated) to live in tents, not sowing seed, not planting vineyards, and not drinking wine, because they were alien residents in the land. —Jer 35:6-10.

31 Yes, the vineyard that God so lovingly planted proves itself to be barren —worthy only of destruction.

King Ahab had coveted Naboth’s vineyard.

The vineyard owner points to the answers to these questions when he himself speaks: “Now, O you inhabitants of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

What spiritual vineyard existed in the first century, but what happened after the death of the apostles?

Identifying God’s Vineyard Today

By murdering the son, the heir, they may have thought to seize the vineyard as their own, since the one who planted it was out of the country.

Thus it relates that, after the Flood, Noah planted a vineyard, “began drinking of the wine and became intoxicated.”

Not far from Hebron, they found a vineyard where the grapes were so large that it took two of the spies to carry just one cluster.

In the second illustration, who are represented by the “landowner,” “the vineyard,” “the cultivators,” the “slaves,” and “the heir”?

When the vines wither or produce no grapes and the vineyards become desolate wastes of thorns, it is evidence that Jehovah has withdrawn his blessing —a time of great sorrow.