Mt 6:31 ''Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?''... Mt 6:33 ''But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.''

Theologians have confessed that they do not know how to read the Old Testament scriptures the way that Jesus and the New Testament authors did. It is no surprise that there are so many churches which tolerate each other like a modern Areopagus, but which cannot agree on the meaning of simple parables. Scholtz has documented the problem of interpretation by comparing how parables are interpreted by many of them. <ref>"Collective meaning and specific, prophetic reference in the parables of Matthew 13" by Jacob Jan Scholtz, Stellenbosch University [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/85594]</ref>

==Theological context==

The premillennial concept of the kingdom presumes that it is a future condition to be fulfilled in relation to a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth. The amillenial concept of the kingdom is that it finds it's fulfillment within the church in the present time. Since there is no standard of truth using Greek tools for interpretation, the debate rages on. This work will not address the debates, but will establish the teaching based in the first century Hebrew method of interpretation as demonstrated by Jesus and the New Testament authors.

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