Is some of the OT told in parables?

[ChristineES]

I brought this up in another thread, but I would like to give it it's own thread.

Does anyone think that some of the stories in the Old Testament could be parables?
I am not talking about the historical books, or The Torah (The Law), but in certain books by prophets like Daniel, Ekekiel, or Isaiah.
The story I posted in the other thread was the one of Ekekiel in the valley of the dry bones.
I hope this discussion takes off, because I find it interesting. I am curious to read all the responses.

 

[Imagican]

I don't know about parable per se, but the OT certainly offers 'examples' of things to come based on what's been 'said' about things of the past.

And we also have many offerings of the past that were also designed to mimic things to come. The sacrificial lambs of the past are an indication of THE Sacrificial Lamb of the future. The blood placed over the doorways in Egypt signifying the cleansing blood of the future, etc.......

An exact answer to your question would be difficult at best. We know that the parables that Jesus used were this for He explained to us that they are such. Since there is no statement in the OT concerning the 'giving of parables', it would be difficult to determine the 'actual' events from those that may be parables.

 

[hisvessel1]

Hi. I would have to say Yes to your ? Here are a few examples..
Ps.24:9-10, Isa.6:5,and Dan.4, 2Sam.12:1-4, 1Kngs.20:39-43.
Hope these are a help to you.

 

[reznwerks]

I brought this up in another thread, but I would like to give it it's own thread.

Does anyone think that some of the stories in the Old Testament could be parables?
I am not talking about the historical books, or The Torah (The Law), but in certain books by prophets like Daniel, Ekekiel, or Isaiah.
The story I posted in the other thread was the one of Ekekiel in the valley of the dry bones.
I hope this discussion takes off, because I find it interesting. I am curious to read all the responses.

Daniel Ezekiel and Isaiah were prophets and what they said in prophecy is not a parable. Jesus purposely spoke in parables for a reason and that was to hide the meanings from the gentile.
mark4:1-34
corinthians 4:3-4
(Matthew 13:1-13)
Matthew cites scripture to justify his having Jesus hide God's message from the Gentiles: "And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive." (Matthew 13:14) The scripture to which Matthew refers is the one in which the command is given to "shut the eyes" of the Gentiles: "And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." (Isaiah 6:9-11)




(Matthew 13:14)
Matthew 10:7
Matthew 15:24

 

[Jay T]

I brought this up in another thread, but I would like to give it it's own thread.

Does anyone think that some of the stories in the Old Testament could be parables?
I am not talking about the historical books, or The Torah (The Law), but in certain books by prophets like Daniel, Ekekiel, or Isaiah.
The story I posted in the other thread was the one of Ekekiel in the valley of the dry bones.
I hope this discussion takes off, because I find it interesting. I am curious to read all the responses.

Yes, I believe that is one of ther reasons Jesus told us to study the OT.

Notice in Daniel 9:24-27....the Bible prophecy about the 490 years of probation to the Nation of Israel.
God gave them that amount of time to get their act together, of HE would reject them as His People.....
9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness.....

Jesus Christ refered to this in His parable about Israel.......
Matthew 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
21:39 And they caught him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him].
21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.