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

[Paradigm]

Very well said Retrobyter. 

 

[HAZARD]

I posted this on another thread a few days ago when asked about it.

The parable of the Tares and Wheat (Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43).

1, The Kingdom of heaven is "like" (Matt.13;24).

2. The sower illustrates the Son of man (Matt. 13:24, 37).

3. The "good seed" illustrates the true children of the kingdom of Heaven. The Tares illustrate the professed children of the kingdom who are in reality, the sons of the devil, who sowed them among the wheat (Matt. 13;25, 38-39).

The wheat being in the ground first shows God's plan concerning the kingdom - that only good shall be in it and that every one who professes to be a child of God should really be one. An enemy sowed tares among the wheat, causing a mixture of good and bad in the same field. This the Kingdom of Heaven now takes on a new aspect and should rightlybe understood as "the sphere of profession, "Chrisendom," or "the kingdom of Heaven in mystery."

The word 'tares (Greek, zizania, which occurs only in Matt. 13:25) is not the same as the darnel of the naturalists, but zewan as known in Palestine today. While growing it looks like wheat, but when full grown the ears are long and the grain black. Each grain of zewan must be removed before grinding the wheat, or the bread is bitter and poisonus. Tares show their true color as they ripen Verse 26 shows that the tares could not be detected until the fruit began to appear (Matt. 7:15-20). The enemy "went his way" in confidence that the seed would grow of its own nature. Should not this be our confidence in the good seed?

4. The field illustrates the world of men (Matt. 13:38).

5. The tares and the wheat both grow side by side in the same field, which is the will of the householder, until the harvest (Matt. 13:37-40). Both saved and unsaved who profess to be children of the kingdom will mingle together in this world until the end of this age. A real Christian, to get away from sinners and hypocritics, would have to get out of the world (1 Cor. 5:9-11).

6. The harvest illustrates the separation of the wicked among the just at the end of this age when the Messiah comes to reign (Matt. 11:29-43; 25:31-46; 1 Thess. 5:1-11; 2 Thess. 1:7-10; Jude 14; Zech. 14:1-21). IT DOES NOT ILLUSTRATE THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH BEFORE HIS COMING AS RULER OF THIS WORLD.

7. The reapers illustrate angels who will separate the wicked from the good when Christ comes (Matt. 13:39-43; 24:31, 51; 25:31-46; 2 Thess. 1"7-10).

The expression of "the end of the world" means the end of the age. At this time the Kingdom of heaven ceases to be the sphere of profession and becomes the literal Kingdom of Heaven, or the reign of the Messiah over all the kingdoms of this world (Rev.11:15; Dan. 7:13-14, 18).

8. "Then shall the righteous shine forth in the kingdom of their Father" (Matt. 19:28; 25:31-46; Rev. 5:10; 20:1-10.

[Revelation Man]

On 10/12/2016 at 1:05 PM, Giller said:

We have to be really careful with the word , and often times we want to defend a certain doctrine , and if it is scriptural , we should defend it, to the degree that God wants.

 

I am with you on a lot of you post. But the truth is The Tares are burned at the End of the World, but they are bundled to be burned (killed) when Jesus returns from Heaven with the Church, riding White Horses. Below is one of my blogs on my channel from a while back. https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-endtimebiblicalevents/the_wheat_and_the_tares/

 

The Wheat and the Tares

Jesus explained to his disciples that He was the Sower, the World was the field, the good seed was the children of the Kingdom of God and Satan was he that sowed the tares/wicked ones.

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.

Most Post-Tribulation advocates point this parable out as one of the main reasons they believe that the Rapture is Post-Tribulation. But they fail to understand, if the Rapture is as they say it is, when they go to meet Jesus and the air, and come straight back down to earth, they are still Raptured before the wicked are bound up, just as if the Rapture was Pre-tribulation. So what gives ?

Well Jesus came to die for all men, but his ministry dealt with Israel only, he even stated this fact, "I am come only to the lost sheep of Israel". So the Wheat is Israel, who are turned back to God by Elijah before the Day of the Lord comes.

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,

So the Wheat is All Israel who becomes a Christian Nation before the Judgments start, but after they rebuild the Temple and start Daily Sacrifices, hence the seeming contradiction, which is none, Elijah comes and turns Israel back to God and reveals the Real Messiah is Jesus but only after the Temple practices are reinstated.

All of the Tares will be destroyed by Jesus at the Second Coming, or bundled together in graves, awaiting their judgment after the Thousand Year Millennial reign. Then the Wheat (all Israel) will be harvested into the Masters Barn. The Church is already in the Masters Barn, they were in Heaven marrying the Lamb and come back with Jesus.

[Salty]

Jude 3-4
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
KJV

 

The important lesson to learn from our Lord's parable of the tares is that underlined part above, that He had "before of old ordained" certain ones to that condemnation.

We all want to believe that if regardless of what evil working a soul might be doing today, they could turn from evil if they had a better opportunity in life, either in their upbringing, etc. While it is true that The Gospel of Jesus Christ is offered freely to all born in the flesh, it is not true that all men will obey The Gospel, and instead will continue to love and work for the devil instead. In other words, if God ordained them to that condition, the who are we to turn those around? Only God can.

The parable is especially to show us that God has a negative side of His Plan of Salvation, and we are to realized it, and not be overly concerned about saving those souls ordained to that condemnation, and instead move on to those who can be helped.

Those are the wolves in sheep's clothing our Lord and His Apostles spoke of. Spots in our feasts of charity. The ones Paul warned the brethren that would creep in among the congregation after he was gone. They are the "mystery of iniquity" Paul mentioned, and the "many antichrists" Apostle John mentioned, and also the "workers of iniquity" mentioned in the Old Testament Scripture.

 

[RevelationWriter]

I find it interesting that Jesus said at the end of the age

He will send His angels and they will gather all things out of His Kingdom that offends and those who practice lawlessness.

Not out of the world. But out of His kingdom.

[OneLight]

12 minutes ago, RevelationWriter said:

I find it interesting that Jesus said at the end of the age

He will send His angels and they will gather all things out of His Kingdom that offends and those who practice lawlessness.

Not out of the world. But out of His kingdom.

Revelation 11:15

[ Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed ] Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”

[RevelationWriter]

Yeah, but Jesus didn't say 'kingdoms'.

[guestman]

Is it believable that in ancient times someone would actually oversow another man’s field with weeds ?

At Matthew 13:24-26, Jesus is quoted as saying: “The Kingdom of the heavens may be likened to a man who sowed fine seed in his field. While men were sleeping, his enemy came and oversowed weeds in among the wheat and left. When the stalk sprouted and produced fruit, then the weeds also appeared.”

Different writers have questioned whether this illustration should be considered real, yet ancient Roman legal writings suggest that it should. “Sowing darnel in a field for purposes of revenge . . . was a crime under Roman legislation. The necessity for a law on the subject suggests that the action was not infrequent,” says one Bible dictionary.

Legal scholar Alastair Kerr explains that in 533 C.E., Roman Emperor Justinian published his Digest, a summary of Roman law and excerpts from jurists of the classical period of the law (about 100-250 C.E.). According to this work (Digest, 9.2.27.14), the jurist Ulpian referred to a case considered by the second-century Roman statesman Celsus.

Weeds had been sown in another person’s field, and as a result, a crop was ruined. The Digest considers the legal remedies available to the owner, or tenant farmer, in order to obtain compensation from the perpetrator for the loss suffered. That such malicious mischief occurred within the Roman Empire in ancient times indicates that the situation Jesus described was true to life.

A 1468 copy of the Digest (Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-65381) by Emperor Justinian is one of many records that provide details about legal issues in ancient times.(source - October 15, 2016 Watchtower magazine, pg 32)

[Daniel 11:36]

My comment

The Lord explains this parable

The good seed [the wheat] is sown by Himself, the bad seed [the weeds] is sown by Satan [Genesis 3:15]

And these will exist together in the world until the harvest

He tells of the ultimate separation between the spirits of believers and the spirits of unbelievers [Revelation 20:11-15]

The "weeds" will be bundled and burned .... then the wheat will be gathered into the barn [Revelation 21]

 

 

Edited December 28, 2016 by Daniel 11:36

[Retrobyter]

Shalom, everyone.

There are a few things that people often miss in the interpretation of the parable about the wheat and the tares, as well as in many other things written in the Scriptures:

1. First, one absolutely needs to understand that "heaven" means the "sky," that is, the earth's "atmosphere." Christians have the same misunderstanding about "Heaven" as the Pharisees and the Sadducees did:

Matthew 16:1-4
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven (Greek: ek tou ouranou = "from/out of-the sky").
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky (Greek: ho ouranos = "the sky") is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky (Greek: ho ouranos = "the sky") is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky (Greek: prosoopon tou ouranou = "face of-the sky"); but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
KJV

They thought He would give them a sign from "God's abode"; He gave them WEATHER WISDOM!

"A red sky at night is a sailor's delight;
Red sky at morning? sailors take warning!"

It's EXACTLY THE SAME WORD in verses 1, 2, and 3, "ouranos," just with different case endings!

2. Second, one needs to understand that the parable about the wheat and the tares is NOT the same as the separation between the goat nations and the sheep nations. They take place at different times in history, and when Yeshua` returns, He is NOT going to judge the world at the Great White Throne Judgment at that time! He is coming to REIGN over this earth as a "King of kings and Lord of lords!"