The Parables Were Encrypted
How Jesus hid a revolution inside stories the authorities couldn’t kill, and why they’re breaking through now
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Now, let’s talk about how revolution gets hidden in plain sight.
Jerusalem. Midday heat. A crowd pressed around a rabbi causing problems.
Religious authorities arrived with a trap.
“Why do you speak in parables? Why not just say what you mean?”
This wasn’t about teaching style. The system they’d built managed access to God through interpretation, ritual, official permission. This uncredentialed teacher was bypassing it all.
His answer should have ended everything.
“I speak in parables so the truth can survive what’s coming.”
He knew they would bury his teachings. Knew the institution would capture his movement the moment he was gone.
So he encrypted the revolution inside stories they couldn’t kill.
Two thousand years later, the code is cracking.
The Genius of the Method
The city was occupied. Rome’s soldiers on every corner, but sophisticated control came from religious authorities who’d perfected suppression across centuries.
They knew how to handle dissent. John the Baptist. Beheaded. The Essenes. Irrelevant in desert isolation. The Zealots. Dying in futile violence.
Jesus had perhaps three years before they’d kill him too. He couldn’t retreat, couldn’t fight, couldn’t speak directly.
So he told stories about farmers.
How Stories Bypass Defenses
The human mind resists direct challenge but opens for narrative.
Tell someone “your beliefs are wrong”. Watch walls go up. Tell them about a lost son coming home. They lean in. It’s not about them. It’s just a story.
This wasn’t teaching technique. It was psychological warfare.
“A farmer went out to sow his seed.”
Nine words sounding like agricultural advice. Harmless. But embedded in them: a complete map of how truth spreads despite opposition.
Path, rocks, thorns, good soil. Not predicting the future but explaining the present. How consciousness receives truth. How resistance is part of the design. How multiplication happens when conditions align.
The authorities couldn’t stop him.
You can ban sermons, burn scrolls, execute men.
But how do you arrest someone for talking about farming?
Hidden in Plain Sight
The parables used ordinary, unstoppable activities as their delivery system.
Can’t prevent farmers from sowing. Can’t stop women from using leaven. Can’t halt daily life.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed.”
Surface: harmless growth metaphor. Underneath: transformation happens beneath notice, through organic processes no authority can manage, unstoppable by the time it’s visible.
Authorities could argue doctrine, debate interpretation, challenge credentials.
But a story about lost coins? Bread-making?
Trojan horses. Once past defenses, they release insights that cannot be contained.
The Great Divergence
After Jesus died, his followers faced a choice.
Preach the religion of Jesus—direct access, kingdom within, transformation he embodied.
Or preach religion about Jesus—belief system centered on events that happened to him.
They chose transaction.
Not from malice. From practicality. The religion of Jesus is unmanageable. Makes priests of everyone, requires no institution. Religion about Jesus could be systematized, controlled, institutionalized.
Paul, brilliant, never having met the living Jesus, built a theological framework that was powerful, coherent, and structurally required an institution to maintain it.
The early church built on his foundation. Parables preserved but explained. Tamed. Weapons turned to moral lessons.
Prodigal Son became about forgiveness, its radical pre-emptive grace softened. Good Samaritan became about helping others, its indictment of religious systems neutralized.
They buried revolution under doctrine, thinking they were building a church.
Just pouring concrete.
The Concrete Cracks
For two millennia, institutions tried managing seeds. Controlling growth. Directing germination.
Seeds don’t respect boundaries.
Now millions read parables and see past sanctioned interpretations.
The father running before repentance. Workers paid equally for different hours. The Samaritan helping without permission.
Grace that isn’t transactional. Love that doesn’t wait for worthiness. An economy operating on different principles.
This isn’t new scholarship. Consciousness is becoming ready.
The internet shattered the mediation monopoly. Anyone can read texts, compare translations, examine Greek. No permission required.
Encounter the parables without interpreters, and you discover what institutions spent centuries concealing.
The Moment of Recognition
There’s a parable that’s followed you.
You know the one. Heard countless times, yet something lingers. Not the official interpretation. Something deeper.
A pattern you sense but can’t articulate.
By design.
The story has been patient. It doesn’t demand immediate understanding.
It only asks that you carry it. Return to it. Feel that pull toward something nameless.
The story knows what you’re discovering: you’re not interpreting it. It’s interpreting you. Revealing who you are beneath the conditioning.
The parable awaits your readiness to see what it has always shown.
When the time comes, when experience has tilled consciousness, you’ll see it. Not because you were taught, but because something in the story recognizes something in you.
This moment was always intended.
What Seeds Do
I keep returning to an image: a seedling breaking through industrial concrete.
Concrete poured to last decades, engineered to prevent growth.
The seed followed its inherent instruction: become.
For two thousand years, institutions tried managing these stories. Controlling their meaning. Determining who may understand.
Stories don’t obey institutions. Seeds don’t ask permission.
The parables are breaking through now. In you. In millions awakening simultaneously.
You feel it. Truth once seen cannot be unseen. Recognition once felt cannot be unfelt.
The design is functioning as intended.
Concrete cracks not from external force, but because seeds do what seeds do.
They grow.
And when they do, everything meant to contain them shatters.
The stories survived. They’re awakening now.
They don’t require your permission.
Only that you cease resisting.
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Tomorrow I’m releasing the third parable in my Unsealed series.
Last week: Prodigal Son. Then Lost Sheep. Next: Good Samaritan.
These will become the Parables Unsealed book. But you’re getting them early as they germinate.
Thank you for being here.
I love you.












He also knew people retain truths and accept them more readily when they discover it themselves which parables force
Your writing are beautifully written…….compelling, concise, draws one into His journey.
Thank you!
M Hodges