Chapter 27: A Surprising Twist to the Parable of the Talents
The meaning of talent has changed through the centuries. In Biblical times it was a measure of weight of 75.6 pounds. King David’s crown weighed one talent. (See 2 Samuel 12:30 .) Can you imagine a neck that could support 75 pounds? We may in the future experience what it feels like to be hit with a talent. Revelation 16:21 prophesies that before the great battle of Armageddon a mighty hailstorm will occur “every stone about the weight of a talent.” On August 8, Delta flight 1889 made an emergency landing after baseball-size hailstones hit it. The largest hailstone on record hit Vivian, South Dakota in 2010. It was eight inches in diameter and weighed not quite two pounds. Makes you wonder what the diameter of a 75.6-pound hailstone will be. Look out below! In Jesus’ time, a talent was a measure of money equal to 20 years of wages for the common worker or $666,000. That is how much the Lord in the Pa...