The Promise of the Kingdom of God

Jesus was about to leave and like the nobleman in this story go into a far country. Even the fact that he calls it a far country is suggesting there's going to be some time elapsing between his leaving and his returning. So Jesus tells this story kind of like the one at the beginning of chapter 18 about the persistent widow and the unjust judge where the lesson is not that God is an unjust judge but that if even such a judge will answer that widow how much more God. Also to here in this story if evensuch a severe king will be able to establish his rule so too will the real Messiah full of God's own justice return with justice and with love.