The parable of the wheat ,and the tares ? Meaning ?

[SINNERSAVED]

I have had the chance today to see from another member that posted a writing  of the parable, of the  (wheat and the tares)

 we read this parable, but what does it really say to us, ? if we take a real close look at it, what is it really telling us, "?

 does it mean what we believe it to be,, ? or something else ? does it have a dual meaning ? ???

or is it beyond what we could even imagine ? ??

lets get input on this,? it will be very interesting and eye opening, I assure it will,

 , lets break down the code, or , is there one ?

  Matthew 13:24   Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

  Matthew 13:25   But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

  Matthew 13:26   But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

  Matthew 13:27   So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

  Matthew 13:28   He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

  Matthew 13:29   But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

  Matthew 13:30   Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
 

blessings

[missmuffet]

Question: "What is the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares?"

Answer: The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds, or Tares, is filled with spiritual significance and truth. But, in spite of the clear explanation of the parable that Jesus gave (Matthew 13:36-43), this parable is very often misinterpreted. Many commentaries and sermons have attempted to use this story as an illustration of the condition of the church, noting that there are both true believers (the wheat) and false professors (the weeds) in both the church at large and individual local churches. While this may be true, Jesus distinctly explains that the field is not the church; it is the world (v. 38).

Even if He hadn’t specifically told us the world is the setting of the story, it would still be obvious. The landowner tells the servants not to pull up the weeds in the field, but to leave them until the end of the age. If the field were the church, this command would directly contradict Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 18, which tells us how to deal with unrepentant sinners in the church: they are to be put out of the fellowship and treated as unbelievers. Jesus never instructed us to let impenitent sinners remain in our midst until the end of the age. So, Jesus is teaching here about “the kingdom of heaven” (v. 24) in the world.

In the agricultural society of Christ’s time, many farmers depended on the quality of their crops. An enemy sowing weeds would have sabotaged a business. The tares in the parable were likely darnel because that weed, until mature, appears as wheat. Without modern weed killers, what would a wise farmer do in such a dilemma? Instead of tearing out the wheat with the tares, the landowner in this parable wisely waited until the harvest. After harvesting the whole field, the tares could be separated and burned. The wheat would be saved in the barn.

In the explanation of parable, Christ declares that He Himself is the sower. He spreads His redeemed seed, true believers, in the field of the world. Through His grace, these Christians bear the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-24). Their presence on earth is the reason the “kingdom of heaven” is like the field of the world. When Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17; Mark 3:2), He meant the spiritual realm which exists on earth side by side with the realm of the evil one (1 John 5:19). When the kingdom of heaven comes to its fruition, heaven will be a reality and there will be no “weeds” among the “wheat.” But for now, both good and bad seeds mature in the world.

The enemy in the parable is Satan. In opposition to Jesus Christ, the devil tries to destroy Christ’s work by placing false believers and teachers in the world who lead many astray. One has only to look at the latest televangelist scandal to know the world is filled with professing “Christians” whose ungodly actions bring reproach on the name of Christ. But we are not to pursue such people in an effort to destroy them. For one thing, we don’t know if immature and innocent believers might be injured by our efforts. Further, one has only to look at the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, and the reign of “Bloody Mary” in England to see the results of men taking upon themselves the responsibility of separating true believers from false, a task reserved for God alone. Instead of requiring these false believers to be rooted out of the world, and possibly hurting immature believers in the process, Christ allows them to remain until His return. At that time, angels will separate the true from false believers.

In addition, we are not to take it upon ourselves to uproot unbelievers because the difference between true and false believers isn’t always obvious. Tares, especially in the early stages of growth, resemble wheat. Likewise, a false believer may resemble a true believer. In Matthew 7:22, Jesus warned that many profess faith but do not know Him. Thus, each person should examine his own relationship with Christ (2 Corinthians 13:5). First John is an excellent test of salvation.

Jesus Christ will one day establish true righteousness. After He raptures the true church out of this world, God will pour out His righteous wrath on the world. During that tribulation, He will draw others to saving faith in Jesus Christ. At the end of the tribulation, all unbelievers will be judged for their sin and unbelief; then, they will be removed from God’s presence. True followers of Christ will reign with Him. What a glorious hope for the “wheat”!

http://www.gotquestions.org/parable-wheat-tares.html

[Marilyn C]

Hi SINNERSAVED,

So here we have the Lord talking to the people of Israel concerning the kingdom of heaven. Israel knew this phrase from the book of Daniel. It was there they read that -

`the God of heaven will set  up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed;...` (Dan. 2: 44)

Thus God explains that when He has dealt with the last Gentile Rulership, then He will set up a kingdom - promised to Israel, to rule the world. This rulership will even go on into the new heavens & new earth.  Each of the kingdom parables describe some aspect of how God will accomplish this & who will be in this kingdom on earth.

1. The Sower & the Seed -  receiving the word of the kingdom for Israel. Jesus quotes Isaiah`s prophecy to explain the situation. (Matt. 13: 14 - 17.  Isa. 6: 9) 

2. The fruit of this belief was obedience resulting in righteousness. Jesus quotes Daniel`s prophecy. (Matt.  13: 41 - 43  Dan. 12: 2 & 3)

These are the foundations of God`s rule from heaven over the earth, (the kingdom rule through Israel). The people had to be righteous, believing what God promised them by faith & obey. This is Israel`s inheritance, rulership over the earth. Many people in the OT were accounted righteous because they believed that God would bring His rulership over the earth through Israel as promised. Jesus was reminding Israel of their inheritance.

Note very carefully - We the Body of Christ have been promised a different inheritance.

Marilyn.

 

[n2thelight]

1 hour ago, Marilyn C said:

Hi SINNERSAVED,

So here we have the Lord talking to the people of Israel concerning the kingdom of heaven. Israel knew this phrase from the book of Daniel. It was there they read that -

`the God of heaven will set  up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed;...` (Dan. 2: 44)

Thus God explains that when He has dealt with the last Gentile Rulership, then He will set up a kingdom - promised to Israel, to rule the world. This rulership will even go on into the new heavens & new earth.  Each of the kingdom parables describe some aspect of how God will accomplish this & who will be in this kingdom on earth.

1. The Sower & the Seed -  receiving the word of the kingdom for Israel. Jesus quotes Isaiah`s prophecy to explain the situation. (Matt. 13: 14 - 17.  Isa. 6: 9)

2. The fruit of this belief was obedience resulting in righteousness. Jesus quotes Daniel`s prophecy. (Matt.  13: 41 - 43  Dan. 12: 2 & 3)

These are the foundations of God`s rule from heaven over the earth, (the kingdom rule through Israel). The people had to be righteous, believing what God promised them by faith & obey. This is Israel`s inheritance, rulership over the earth. Many people in the OT were accounted righteous because they believed that God would bring His rulership over the earth through Israel as promised. Jesus was reminding Israel of their inheritance.

Note very carefully - We the Body of Christ have been promised a different inheritance.

Marilyn.

 

Are you saying,Israel is different than the body of Christ?

[n2thelight]

Matthew 13:34 "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:"

Remember in the tenth verse where the disciples asked Jesus why He spoke in parables? So far He has not explained these parables to the multitudes, even though we have discussed it in our study. Jesus explained that it is given for the disciples, and you that are a disciple if you are saved and study his Word, however to the unsaved, and Kenite, it is not given.

What we have explained here is still not for the unsaved, in fact it is foolishness to them. If you plan on producing fruit for God's kingdom, you have to do it His way. Though the multitude watch and were healed, they still considered the whole thing a side show. and that is why Jesus had no intension of explaining these truths to them.

Matthew 13:35 "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."

Here Jesus is quoting from the Psalm 78:2, from the prophet David. "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" The things which have been kept secret from the foundation of this earth age has to do with the planting of souls in this earth age. It is a deeper study that we will go into here, at a time past, in the first earth age, there was a uprising of Satan and one third of the sons of God, or angelic souls.

That uprising in the first earth age caused the complete ruin of this earth as an inhabitable place, and this happening occurred between Genesis 1:1, and 1:2. To draw His created souls back to Him, He established His plan, and that plan is written in the heavens of the Constellations. The details of that plan are complete, and given to us through the prophets of the Bible.

There is an ingredience in that plan that was started when Eve and Satan had a son, and that son's name was "Cain". This parable of the sower is directed to that event and the fruit of that event. The event has been kept secret, and is still secret to most of the church world today, and it deals with the Kenites, where they came from, who they are, and what they plan on doing. They have a mission, and as long as it remains a secret to a person, much of the Bible just doesn't make sense.

Satan has used the Kenites from the very beginning to overthrow the plan of God, and it is impossible for that to succeed. In these end times, the Kenites will be successful in diverting millions of Christians to the Antichrist, only, the elect of God will have the truth sealed in their minds, and wait on Jesus Christ. This leaven of the woman came forth, even before the foundation of this earth age, because they earned it. That is what Ephesians 1:4 is all about.

Matthew 13:36 "Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field."

Well, the time of Jesus teaching was over, and the crowd had gone. Jesus went into the house, and in came the disciples after him. They just could not wait to have the parables explained to them.

So lets lock in to the fact that Christ is going to explain the parables that He just gave to the multitude. He is not speaking in one, but trying to get us to understand what He was saying. This will be so clear that even a child can understand, so don't make it complicated. Jesus speaks with great clarity.

Matthew 13:37 "He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;"

Now keep in mind that this man had good seed and He went out and sowed that seed in a good field, well prepared. The "Son of man" has to do with the Greek expression, "God in flesh". Another words, God sowed the good seed.

Remember that in the parable the seed was a grain of wheat, which represented a different seed, called "sperma", of the seed of man; a child.

Matthew 13:38 "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;"

This "field" that Jesus is talking about in His parable is the entire world. The good seed are children of God's kingdom. It did not say that these were apple seeds, or any other fruit of trees; they were children of the kingdom. Some people really get confused when they get mixed up between apples and babies. These seeds are the outcome between the sexual union between a man [Adam] and a woman [Eve]. Get it? Jesus is telling you what happened in the Garden of Eden. Those children are the children of Seth, and not Cain.

So we see here that the "tares" are the children of the wicked one. The wicked one is the adversary to God, Jesus if you claim the name of Christ. Satan is called the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", and He is the one that God told Eve to stay away from. However we know she did not.

The result of Eve having a sexual union with the devil, the serpent [Satan], the tree of good and evil, or what ever you want to call him; was the baby "Cain". In Strong's Hebrew dictionary # 7014, The Kenite is identified as the son of the first child, Cain. In # 7017, the Kenites are identified as members of the tribe from Cain. The Kenites then are the fruit, or produce of Satan on earth.

Friend, don't be stooped and try to spiritualize this explanation of Christ away. He is revealing one of the hidden mysteries, "kept secret from the foundation of this earth age". God is telling you that this is not spiritual children, but flesh and blood walking on the earth today.

The two seeds then are the offspring of Satan, and the offspring of God.

Matthew 13:39 "The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels."

I guess this makes it very clear just who the wicked one, also called the enemy is. Do you get it now why we are to leave them alone? God has His angels appointed to do the gathering, and those angels are the elect of God that will be changed in the wink of an eye, when Christ returns to earth. That is when the gathering will take place. I Corinthians 15:50-52 tells us how and when this will take place.

All men and angels are made in the image of God, how do the angels look? Just like God, and just like man, however the physical make up is different. Though the gathering is taking place at the first day of the Millennium, the burning of them in the fire will take place at the end of the Millennium age, after the judgment.

On the first day of the Millennium age, every knee will bow to Christ, for all flesh will be gone, and everyone will be changed in the twinkling of an eye to their incorruptible bodies. "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be change." I Corinthians 15:52 There are no exceptions to this, for even the Kenites will see Christ greatness. Their father Satan will be locked in the pit for the thousand year Millennium period.

The tares that are converted then are no longer tares, for upon repentance and belief in Jesus Christ, they also become the sons of God, and joint heirs with Christ in His kingdom. When they repent, they will become the wheat that is sifted, and saved for the kingdom of God.

Matthew 13:40 "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world."

At the end of this world age, the tares are gathered, and separated. There burning will not happen until after the Millennium thousand year period, when the judgment will be, and then comes the hell fire that will destroy Satan, and all that followed him. This time is recorded in Revelation 20:11:-15

 

http://www.theseason.org/matthew/matthew13.htm

[WilliamL]

5 hours ago, n2thelight said:

The result of Eve having a sexual union with the devil, the serpent [Satan], the tree of good and evil, or what ever you want to call him; was the baby "Cain". In Strong's Hebrew dictionary # 7014, The Kenite is identified as the son of the first child, Cain. In # 7017, the Kenites are identified as members of the tribe from Cain. The Kenites then are the fruit, or produce of Satan on earth.

Two obvious problems with this teaching. First, Gen. 4:1 says Eve conceived Cain via Adam, not Satan, and called her son "from YHWH," not from Satan. Second, none of the descendants of Cain survived the Flood, so the post-Flood Kenites could not have been Cain's lineage.

[SINNERSAVED]

so if I am reading this and trying to understand this, is there  a seed of satan  and a seed of God, both  in existence in the earth , and that is it possible, that the serpent in the garden, was a meeting of eve and evil to produce cain ? and so abel was killed as we know,

 so where do we go from here, I am just trying to see where this is going, for I have thought, that me personally ,there is a evil that is of seed in the earth and so , I could be wrong, for I cannot say 100% but ,

 I believe we not only have a evil spirit of wickedness, but a possible seed of wicked one the children of the evil may exist ?

I believe this is the most dynamic, post, yet, for it will and should bring to light, maybe what we have not really understood, or have been able to explore ?

thank you for the responses, and so lets examine the statements more, I believe there is more meaning in the parables, and scripture, then we really understand, God will give us wisdom, and will show us what we need to know, blessings

[simplejeff]

Genesis 4Amplified Bible (AMP)

Cain and Abel

4 Now the man ^[a]Adam knew Eve as his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have obtained a man (baby boy, son) with the help of the Lord.”

Don't forget, Yahweh spoke to Cain, told him basically to overcome sin.

Bereshit: Hebraic Roots Bible: 1: 4 And it was in the end of days, it 

happened that Cain brought an offering 

to YAHWEH from the fruit of the 

ground. 

4 And Abel brought, he also, from the 

firstlings of his flocks, even from their 

fat. And YAHWEH looked to Abel and 

to his offering. 

5 And He did not look to Cain and to 

his offering. And Cain glowed greatly 

with anger, and his face fell. 

5 

6 And YAHWEH said to Cain, Why 

have you angrily glowed, and why has 

your face fallen? 

7  If you do well,  is there not 

exaltation? And if you do not do well, 

sin is crouching at the door; and its 

desire is toward you; but you should 

rule over it. 

4 

This Hebrew word for gotten “Kanati” also 

means to purchase and the root can mean to 

fix, repair or restore. Understandably, Adam 

and Eve thought that Cain was the 

prophesied messiah of Gen 3:15, and he 

would repair the covenant that they had 

broken. .

[Marilyn C]

13 hours ago, n2thelight said:

Are you saying,Israel is different than the body of Christ?

Hi n2thelight,

Yes, Israel is called out of the nations.

The Body of Christ is called out of Israel & the nations.

Each group for a specific purpose & inheritance.

Marilyn.

[Sister]

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so if I am reading this and trying to understand this, is there  a seed of satan  and a seed of God, both  in existence in the earth , and that is it possible, that the serpent in the garden, was a meeting of eve and evil to produce cain ? and so abel was killed as we know,

 so where do we go from here, I am just trying to see where this is going, for I have thought, that me personally ,there is a evil that is of seed in the earth and so , I could be wrong, for I cannot say 100% but ,

 

Hi Sinnersaved

In these parables, Jesus is comparing the kingdom of God to this world.  It has nothing to do with what happened in the beginning, but what happened after Christ came.

He that sowed the good seed is Christ.  Christ came to give the light, the gospels.  (Before that the world was in darkness)

The field is the world.  The good seed are the children of the kingdom (Christ planted his seed in them so they can grow, it started from the gospels)

The tares (lies) are planted by Satan, his seed is planted in his children, and they sprout too.

both seeds have to grow together until the harvest, because if the wicked seed is pulled up too early, (judgement) the good seed will be uprooted also (not fully grown yet)

But once both different types of seed have reached maturity, (the fullness of the gentiles come in), then the earth is ripe for the harvest.

The moral of this story is that the good and the wicked have to grow together.  Christ's teachings have been polluted.  But at the end when the harvest comes, Christ will see what type of seed we sprouted from, whether from his seed (his teachings) or the devils.  The sifting will take place.

Before Christ's kingdom is established on this earth, it has to be cleaned out first.  Those that offend will be plucked out.

 

 

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 I believe we not only have a evil spirit of wickedness, but a possible seed of wicked one the children of the evil may exist ?

It says all men lie in wickedness, but because of mercy, it doesn't matter who's lineage we come from, if we adopt Christ we automatically become his seed.  A fresh new start, a time of change.

If still uncircumcised of the heart, unwilling to change, we remain the seed of the evil one.