The Evil Slave
By Richard P. Joseph
6/14/2026
In Matthew 23 Jesus confronts the Jewish leadership and condemns them with a series of woes. I would like you to keep in mind who he is talking to, which is very important. He never mentions the Americans, the Romans, the Russians or anyone else except the Jews. Jesus capped off his warning by informing them that “their” house will be left to them desolate.
Mathew 23:38 Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!
Who’s house? Their house. Not mine and not yours. In AD 70, just 40 years later, their house was leveled to the ground and their entire religious system went down with it, never to rise again. A fake system might rise but not the one Moses built. The next verse confirms that.
Matthew 23:39 For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
In verse 39 Jesus makes them cry uncle! To put that in ancient Hebrew language, Jesus is proclaiming a covenant change. He is declaring that in order to find God, you need to find Jesus. When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt they traveled through the wilderness with the Ark of the Covenant and a makeshift temple. Then Soloman built the permanent temple in Jerusalem where the Ark was placed inside the inner room or the Holy of Holies. In Matthew 24:26 Jesus tells them that if they say I am in the wilderness or in the inner room, do not believe it, for I am not there.
26 So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them.
Just like Jesus told the woman at the well that you will no longer have to go to Jerusalem to worship God, he is telling them the same thing. After AD 70, the physical Jerusalem will not matter. God can only be found in Spirit and in Truth. He told the Pharisees and the Apostles that this will all happen in their generation of time.
This time stamp matters and cannot be ignored. We have today, nearly all pastors teaching that the Lord's return has been delayed.
Matthew 24:45 “Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his [aj]master put in charge of his household slaves, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that slave whom his [ak]master finds so doing when he comes. 47 Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My [al]master [am]is not coming for a long time,’ 49 and he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and he eats and drinks with those habitually drunk; 50 then the [an]master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know, 51 and he will [ao]cut him in two and assign [ap]him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jesus gives a parable about two slaves, one is faithful and one is evil. The faithful one prepared for the master's return and kept his house in order. The evil slave ignored the time frame statements and started to mistreat his subjects but was surprised when the master returned sooner than he thought and caught him unprepared.
Today, most people still think that Jesus and all of his disciples made a mistake and they are still waiting for his return, thinking that he has been delayed. In the meantime people are getting abused, mistreated, lied to and scammed of all their money. The modern futurist pastor is nothing more than the Evil Slave that Jesus warned us about.
The entire new testament, from beginning to end, pushes the narrative of an impending covenant change that will be consummated by the visitation of Christ in Judgment. Coupling true historical events with the words of Christ, it is abundantly clear that all was accomplished at the fall of Jerusalem in the year AD 70. This is obvious once you open your eyes to it. It can’t be missed and can’t be denied. It is up to you. Which slave do you want to be; the faithful one or the evil one?
