Parable of the Wheat and the Tares?

1) The Harvest is the time when the wheat (true believers) will be separated from

the tares ( the mere professors). Satan has many so-called Christians go to church

"religiously" and mingle with those that are true followers. This is where they are

revealed for what they really are.

2) The separation will be accomplished by the reapers, of Rev 14:14-20 which are

the angels of God who know the evil doers (false professors)from the righteous.

3) The earthly tares go into a temporary earthly fire; the spiritual tares will go into

an eternal fire, specially prepared for Satan and all that followed his ways.

4) As with an earthly sower, his harvest is stored in his earthly barn.

With the heavenly Sower, his harvest will be taken to heaven.

In the sense that we get 'a little here, a little there', I read this is about 'the Kingdom of Heaven'.

We are to 'seek first the Kingdom of Heaven'. The Kingdom of Heaven is two things...

at least two. One, it is a Kingdom, a 'district', or an area of rulership and secondly,

when I looked this up in Strong's, it said it meant also the ruler, the King, ie. who

presides over the Kingdom. So it will depend on context what you will use for

Kingdom.

We are all part of His Kingdom. Jesus was speaking to His people, but they

rejected Him, 'received Him not', and Jesus said 'I have sheep in other folds'.

They rejected Him knowingly.

Jesus used very clear and literal examples. Wheat was wheat, and tares

were tares. We remember in John 8, I believe it is where Jesus said that

those accusing Him were 'of your father, the devil' and we see this lining up

in Mt. 13, saying 'an enemy has done this'.

So, Jesus sowed His seed, and the devil sowed his seed. Seed is always

offspring, 'the seed of Abraham' and so on.

So, we want to know that the devil has offspring that are his own seed.

People don't believe this, but this is what it says.

Now let's think about what happens prior to the harvest. They grow

together.

Everyone listening to Jesus, (and all gardeners) would know that you

cannot separate the two at first. The tares look a lot like the wheat

sometimes, and also if you try to pull out the tares, the wheat won't

make it.

This can describe family, or relationships. Some believe, many do not.

But it describes more than that.

Now, at the harvest, we note the servants of the master (ie. with the master)

gather first the tares.

So, we see tares gathered up, and thus separated from the wheat. So, then

don't we see some wheat here, some there, separated quite a distance

from the tares?

Notice today all the groups. Have you watched televised sports at all?

See the thousands just looking at 'the game'. Zoning out? Then all the

groups. More groups than ever before.

The groups are being gathered together.

The believers aren't all that many relatively speaking, are they?

Yes, we're moving into that harvest. The tares are grouped and they do

this by the spirits that lead them. They follow their father, which is not

Jesus Christ.

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VERY POSSIBLE... 1. Who was the source of tares? They were planted by "the enemy." 2. Why was this done? To try and confuse the workers and diminish the TRUE harvest of REAL "wheat." 3. How can the intrusion be dealt with? Only in the end can they be successfully separated. The mature "wheat" is distinctive. ... Good point.

Remember the context.

Jesus was speaking to Jews this was before He revealed Himself as the Christ and told the disciples not speak of this.

Luke 9:20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

Luke 9:21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded [them] to tell no man that thing;

Luke 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

The parable was spoken while He was still offering Himself as King of Israel with a forthcoming Kingdom. He was rejected as King (this culminated with the chief priests saying to Pilate "We have no King but Ceaser.") This then resulted it what is known as the "Church Age" which will continue until the rapture, then will God take up His dealings once more with the children of Israel, with 3 1/2 years of peace, 3 1/2 years of Jacob's trouble, the return of Christ and the setting up of His Millenium reign, then the separation of the wheat and tares

1) No Christian is in that harvest - Jews only.

2) God looks on the heart, not outward appearances, He is able to judge and is the Judge.

3) This is a parable using allegory.

4) This is a parable using allegory.

In keeping with the parable, these people would face the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the Millenium reign of Christ when they would be sentenced for the evil they had stored up while in their body

The wheat are the believers and the tares are the unbelievers. The reapers are angels trained to separate the two. The unbelievers burn in hellfire. This is all literal. You will never understand Scripture if you make everything figurative. God says what He means and means what He says.

the barn is heaven, everlasting light

they are separated at judgment time

the tares are dispatched to their own destiny they have chosen, eternal darkness, misery and hate

the harvest is when the trumpet call and an archangel's voice is heard

1. No, if you mean "we" as physical beings, but the "harvest" is the good that will be acknowledged (or, if you prefer, "collected"). The question one must ask is "Who is we?" or, better, "Who am I?" The sum total of one's emotions and thoughts? More?

2. This is one of many functions of Archangels, as indicated in Matt 36 ("The reapers are the angels."), known in esoteric circles as the Lords of the Elements, tasked with sorting out what is good from each person, dissolving the bad "weeds" or "chaff" of the lower self (mainly "evil" emotion-thought forms or "spirits mute and deaf"). As for the "how", by Reason (see next point)

3. "Fire" in this case is Ma-ha-El ("Michael") - the Archangel of Fire and the sun, symbolic of Mind and Reason. Reason will burn every thought which we consider evil. Fire, figuratively, is Mind, with which we can burn what is "evil"

4. Absolute Autarchy's ("God's") Divine One-ness, in which all Spirit-Soul-Ego-Beings reside.

Additional insights, if interested...

5. The "field" represents the "world(s)" but, microcosmically, one can also view this as one's present-day personality - the sum total of our elementals (thought-emotion and emotion-thought forms)

This passage should not be interpreted as keeping "good spirits" and burning "bad spirits". There are no bad spirits. All "spirits" are good, and are separate from time and space; it is only their behaviour in the worlds of separation that one might term certain spirits "bad".

Here on earth, those who choose evil are allowed to grow & die along with those who are truly attempting to grow toward God.

At harvest, they will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

1. Yes.

2. Judgment.

3. Eternal Hell.

4. Heaven.

+Jesus, I long to be healed by You.

Carry me into Your Mercy!

I have been wondering about this parable, too. Thanks for spurring me to seek out some light on it. Here is a reference to a forum I'm reading about this subject. I particularly resonate with Alan S's take on this parable, but I'll let you read it for yourself and see whether you think anything helpful has been said here.

All things have their likeness.

Do the right thing for the right reason.