What is the Difference Between When We Fall and are Broken on Christ, Versus When He Falls on Us and Crushes Us to Powder

[Posted September 5, 2024]

I hope you are doing fine, Mike?

I used to think that I understood this passage until recently when it started looking fuzzy to me.

Mat 21:44 “And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder,”

At what stage of our walk did we fall and got broken and when exactly did that Stone (Christ) grind us to powder?

In other word, when do we migrate from being broken to being grounded to powder.

Your brother that is full of appreciation for what you are doing for the body of Christ.

M____

Hi, M___

Thank you for your question concerning when we fall and are broken on Christ, versus when He falls on us and crushes us to powder. The parable of the tenants of the Lord’s vineyard which precedes this verse explains when we fall on Christ and when he falls on us.

The parable begins by depicting us as the Lord’s husbandmen who have fallen on him and have been broken and entrusted with the care of the Lord’s vineyard:

Mat 21:33  Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

Those who are given ears to hear what the spirit says to the churches will acknowledge that we all gladly serve the Lord when we first ‘fall on Christ’ and begin working in His vineyard. But we also know that the words of this parable admonish each of us that we will “lose our first love” at some point while we wait for our Lord’s appearing:

Mat 21:34  And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

“The time of the fruit” is that period of our lives after we have made a profession of Christ and we lose our first love and begin acting like “children of disobedience… children of “our father the devil” instead of our heavenly Father.

Mat 21:35  And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Mat 21:36  Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Mat 21:37  But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mat 21:38  But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Mat 21:39  And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

As these verses apply to us they demonstrate who we are and what we are doing spiritually when we lose our first love and become a healthy beast after having received a deadly wound. There is also an application of these verses to those who have received the holy spirit, tasted the heavenly gift, and the good life to come and are still caused to blaspheme the holy spirit and teach doctrines of demons and find no place of repentance in this age:

Mat 21:40  When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Mat 21:41  They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

For the elect “those husbandmen” refers to our old man who the Lord destroys with the brightness of His coming to reclaim His rightful throne on our hearts and minds. For those who are not given place for repentance in this age, the destruction of their old man will be the lake of fire.

Whether in this present time, or in the lake of fire, we will experience a time when “this Rock will fall on us and grind us to powder” because that is the only sacrifice the Lord will accept:

Lev 2:1  And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

Lev 6:20  This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

We are all ‘builders who reject Christ’ before we become builders who are ground to fine powder and accept the Lord’s correction and scourgings with gratitude.

Mat 21:42  Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mat 21:43  Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

The vineyard which was given to the workers signifies the kingdom of God within each of us, and we are expected to bring forth fruit meet for repentance especially after we have been ground to powder by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands:

Mat 21:44  And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

We are all the proud Pharisee before we become the repentant publican:

Mat 21:45  And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mat 21:46  But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

I hope this helps you to better understand what Christ meant by:

Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

In other words, these words have both an application to this present time for you and me as well as the judgment of the great white throne.

Your brother who wants to be finely ground in this present time,

Mike