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Originally Posted by zeek
Scofield was apprarently right about the parable being an allusion to Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel chapter 4:
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How are we so certain than "birds resting in branches" means that this is a reference to this dream? It might be. But this "once a term is used its meaning is fixed for the entirety of scripture" has a questionable basis. Lee seemed to like it because all he had to do was find a first reference, preferably in an unclear place, and make it into whatever he wanted.
I have no quarrel with the idea that this particular passage could refer to Nebuchadnezzar's dream (the first part) because it describes a very positive thing. But I don't recall Lee actually mentioning that anyway. He seemed to focus on the [incorrect] assumption of an anomaly of size for a mustard plant coupled with an assertion that birds simply are evil (again one of those presumed positions that is not established as true). So the parable (in his theology) has to be a condemnation of something. But the kingdom??