Basically, there is great confusion between parables and what they point to.
One's agenda is what enables, or disables the ability to interpret a parable.
Parables are nearly unavoidable when trying to describe a completely different world, from within the world you seem to live in and understand.
Ultimately, the world of Christ is beyond words, as words themselves are not part of it.
As well, there are no stars, planets, trees, bees, seas, people, arms legs tongues or stomachs.
So it's very different, and is experienced through KNOWLEDGE, not faith.
Instead of five senses, which are limitations, you have KNOWLEDGE.
So as a rule of thumb, you would never want to take literally any parable that uses people, things, or kings as an example.
Christ is not a king like kings are in a world of kings.
This is because in the world of Christ, there is perfect equality.
Kings only exist in a world full of inequality/iniquity/inequity.
This is a fundamental difference in the world of Christ versus "this world" over which he has explicitly denied he was any sort of king over...or ever will be.
Its because he will not rule over a place that is founded upon inequality/inequity.
"King of kings" simply means in his world, all are kings, all being equal, all having maximum power at all times.
In the world of Christ, the equality is so perfect that it is almost pointless to count how many kings there are, how many Christ's there are, ect.
Why? Since there is nothing that differentiates one from another, they are said to be "one".
There is only ONE KIND of what Christ is.
So, there is no such thing as "like Christ" as Christians are wont to boast about.
"Like Christ" actually reveals an agenda to NOT BE CHRIST, which is the baseline teaching that binds all Christians together in their world today, despite disagreements on almost every other issue.
Unlike what motivated Jesus, his non-following "followers" are mainly interested in denying they are actually Christ...unlike Jesus who accepted the FACT that he is Christ and then said "follow me".
Christians interpret "follow me" stupidly to mean do what i say...and NOT follow my example in every way possible.
Well, it is possible to follow the way of Jesus by first accepting the fact that your true identity is actually Christ.
Like Pharisees, the sect of Pharisees (under the tutelage of Paul), Christianity, considers this to be blasphemous, leading to friction between Jesus and Pharisees, and between me and Christians.
Did you know the Pharisees looked forward to a physical resurrection just like Christians do?
It's this AGENDA that completely disables their ability to interpret parables of SPIRITUAL REALITIES.
As a rule of thumb, there is nothing real about physical phenomenon. Even mountains are not real, being held together by faith in the first place, and will disappear when the faith that holds them up is withdrawn and replaced with KNOWLEDGE.
If one's agenda is to let go of physical phenomenon and embrace one's original conditions of life, then interpreting parables is no problem at all.
This is what Jesus did, and is why it was so easy for him to make up parables to try to describe what he was experiencing at the level of his True Self.
That experience, the experience of "heaven" is available NOW TODAY, for anybody who has prepared their mind to be OPEN and READY.
It is not about time, nor is there a time requirement because Christ does not operate in the domain of time, as time is the conceptual opposite of eternity.
Time is the domain of change, whereas the domain of Christ needs no change, it being perfect as it is.
So time, future, past, these are ALIEN concepts that cannot have an influence on when the domain of eternity can be experienced.
Eternity is experienced by the mind that is ready to accept it, as it is, RIGHT NOW....as Jesus did.
In accepting it, you must simultaneously reject the status quo that makes this world what it seems to be.
So if you accept eternity as it is, you will not be able to stay in this world, or even appear in this world for long, and will eventually disappear, just as Jesus did. And this is why he is not coming back, because he has rejected the principles that govern this world, such as inequality.
You have to choose. You cannot have both worlds, at least not in your experience. You will experience one or the other, either heaven or hell, and there is no in between. To experience heaven as home, one must reject hell as home.
It is a psychological shift into a realm that has no physical properties as we think are normal "here". Physical properties are NOT NORMAL in the world of Christ, enabling you to enter the world of Christ through psychological principles emanating out of your "soul", which has no shape or size.
The term "Christ" is a parable, meaning REALITY itself (the "truth") which is an entirely SPIRITUAL existence that does not depend on limitations (the five senses) to be experienced, but is experienced as a living being that is at maximum happiness and bliss at all times ("heaven").
Its like the demons are tired of the devil ruling hell and want Christ to come rule instead.
Hell no! It's still hell!
Hellions are required to EXODUS hell ("overcome the world") to be ruled by, and to rule with Christ...AS CHRIST!
"Every knee shall bow" is a parable that states all illusions will yield to the truth in due time. All of hell will be emptied of it's faith-filled "substance" and return to the "void" from which it came, disappearing back to nothingness.
This occurs when each thinking node submits to the truth of reality instead of holding on to the lies of illusions.
Technically, this has already happened, as eternity is King over time. The question is, why do you or "i" seem to experience the inequality/inequity/iniquity of hell, still?
Christ rules when there are no more thoughts about this matter, and all is forgotten.