This is the second great intermission in the story. When the Lord and the servant return to the vineyard (over 1500 years later), everything has gone wrong. None of the trees are producing good fruit and it takes considerable work to get the vineyard back into shape. We can tell that the rest of the story has to do with the last days because of the word of the Lord to the servant, For behold, the time draweth near, and the end soon cometh.