Luke 19:12

‘He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.”'

The stress on ‘far country' is an indication that they must not expect His immediate return, and that His Kingship will not be granted to Him in Jerusalem. Nor are they likely to interpret it as meaning that He will seek to obtain Caesar's recognition. That possibility had been rejected during the temptations that opened His ministry (Luke 4:5), nor could His teaching possibly have given that impression. For all knew that when the Messiah came He would receive His authority from God alone. So by the parable He was making it clear that they were not to see Him as immediately setting up a throne on Jerusalem under God (excited men get strange ideas), but as departing to God for the purpose of establishing His Kingship ‘in a far country', in Heaven itself, from where He will eventually return as He has already told them (Luke 17:24).