8] Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?[9] And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.[10] Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

In the previous parable about the lost sheep, Jesus makes the point that even one sheep out of one hundred is precious in His sight! Now, He gives another parable using a woman to illustrate the point that even one piece of silver out of ten pieces is precious to the “woman”. Just as the parable of the “lost sheep” had a double meaning, this parable of the “lost piece of silver” has more than one meaning. The primary meaning has to do with “one sinner repenting” as verse 10 says. Thus, the “woman” represents the Church or God’s people, and the “silver” represents a “lost person” that the Church must seek to find and bring back to the Lord and the Church. Woman = God’s people, church. Isaiah 54:5, 6 Thy Maker is thy husband, the Lord . . the Lord hath called thee as a woman. Silver = person or people. Zech. 13 and will refine them like silver is refined and . . I will say, it is my people.
The second meaning of that parable is made plain when we look at the second meaning of “silver”. Silver = Words of the Lord = Law of the Lord. Psalm 12:6 the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times. Psalm 119:72 the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. So the “woman” representing the church, has “ten pieces of silver” which represent the “words of the Lord” or the “Law of the Lord” in ten parts or the ten commandments. The “woman” or church loses one piece of silver or one of the ten commandments. Then, she (the church) begins a diligent search using a candle or light source which represents the Bible. Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp (candle) unto my feet and a light unto my path. As she “lights the candle” she begins to see in the darkness. This represents the church studying the Bible to understand truth. Psalm 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. Psalm 43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth. Psalm 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Psalm 82:5 They know not, neither do they understand, they walk in darkness.
So this parable of Jesus predicts that the church would lose one of the ten commandments and then through the study of the Bible would rediscover the missing or lost commandment. When we examine the ten commandments in Exodus 20:3-17, we discover that the one commandment that has been “lost” by the church is the fourth commandment, Exodus 20:8-11. Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day and hallowed it.
Most of the Christian churches keep the first day or Sunday, while the Bible clearly tells the church to “keep holy the seventh day or Saturday. Thus, just as Jesus predicted, the church has lost one of the”pieces of silver” or one of the commandments of God. The good news is that Jesus has shown us that with diligent searching of the Bible we can discover that “missing piece of silver” or we can discover the truth of the Seventh Day Sabbath, and we can begin to “keep it holy” as God has commanded.