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Please let me know what your thoughts are on the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares?

Regarding the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares I have an impression that the Parable is very relevant to the nature of these days, especially by virtue of the ability of "Tares" to choke the growth of " Wheat". You might have other insights and I am sure I would appreciate them; thank you.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Tares produce no fruit.

    If you produce no fruit then how can you enter into the kingdom of God?

    Are you ready to be harvested?

  • 8 years ago

    Jesus told us to leave the tares alone until the time of the harvest. Attempting to uproot them before the wheat was mature would cause harm to the wheat.

    When young, tares and wheat look identical. It would be very easy to be fooled by the tares, and believe that they were wheat. As they grow taller, the tares grow very stiff and ridged, while the wheat sways in the wind. It is much easier to tell them apart.

    The Lord's command was that the angels would come and gather the tares FIRST: But note, they are only to be gathered and bundled, to be burned but not YET thrown to the fire.

    "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."

    It is my belief that the tares have been gathered and bundled.

  • Peter
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    People like to judge even as the holy spirit demonstrates this.

    "approving the world of righteousness"

    The Tares represent say, even the Lost sheep of the House of ----------?

    They may be groups of celebreties, sports fiends or fans, lost religions of the world,

    The tares represent sinners in the parable.

    Sinners and unrighteousness does represent tares.

    The tares are removed as we see some similar like parables.

    Sin seems to linger everywhere as we are given perspectives of truth.

    In farming the husbandman may have seen crops being overtaken by tares or weed like things.

    Often people overlook things that they encounter in the world.

    Similar parables show the types of believers we meet in the world.

    The cares of this world ...

    The tares also may represent opposing things that hinder our spiritual journeys.

  • Roger
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I look at it this way. God has His children in this world, and Satan has his. I think the rest of the bible supports this as well, especially 1,2 or 3 John which come right out and say it (forget the verses)! Satan's children are allowed to coexist with God's elect/sheep/children/church/chosen etc until the harvest. All of God's children will be saved, none of Satan's children will be saved.

    added: 1 John 3:10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

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  • 8 years ago

    If l remember correctly is talking about throwing seed on rocks and types of soil until at the end it is rich soil. but the meaning or what He is trying to say has nothing to do with Wheat but has plenty to do with people. Some people hear what is being said but do not listen ( wheat lands on rocks). some people hear but soon forget what they were told and turn back to their old ways (Bad soil). and so on.

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