Answer #15

           In this scripture, Jesus describes himself as a man who goes away to secure kingly power, leaving his possessions in the hands of his servants to do business with. After successfully gaining kingly power, he returns to reward his slaves and to repay his enemies, those that did not want him to be king. It is an easy matter to fix the time when Jesus repaid his enemies, the Jewish nation, for rejecting him as their king. This occurred in 70 CE when the Roman army killed 1,100,000 Jews and took 97,000 captive. At that same time then, Jesus would have rewarded his slaves who proved faithful, taking them to heaven, and abandoning those who proved unfaithful. (Matthew 24:40, 41)