19. The Kingdom Parables – The Fifth – The Hidden Treasure – Part 3 Of 4 Series

19. The Kingdom Parables – The Fifth – The Hidden Treasure – Part 3 of 4

This study continues. We expand on some of the previous material and then open up a study on the church that matches the fifth parable. There is a challenge in looking at that Revelation church.

[H]. EXPANDING THE SECOND COMING WE LOOKED AT EARLIER

-It is most important to note here just where this parable is found in the chapter. Look at these verses (we touched on them earlier):-

{{Matthew 13:36 Then He left the multitudes and went into the house and His disciples came to Him saying, “Explain to us THE PARABLE OF THE TARES OF THE FIELD.”

Matthew 13:37 He answered and said, “THE ONE WHO SOWS THE GOOD SEED IS THE SON OF MAN,

Matthew 13:38 and THE FIELD IS THE WORLD and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, and the tares are the sons of the evil one,

Matthew 13:39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE AGE, AND THE REAPERS ARE ANGELS.

Matthew 13:40 Therefore just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at THE END OF THE AGE.

Matthew 13:41 THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS AND THEY WILL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL STUMBLING BLOCKS AND THOSE WHO COMMIT LAWLESSNESS,

Matthew 13:42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. In that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:43 THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. He who has ears, let him hear.

Matthew 13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field which a man found and hid, and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”}}

It is very important to note what these verses are saying.

1. The description of those verses is set at the end of the age.

2. The end of the age is the end of human rule when men have control “in God’s Kingdom. That Kingdom is the whole world over which God has control and contains good and evil. That is what operates now.

3. The end of the age ends with the Second Coming. We see more of that when we do The Dragnet, the last parable.

4. At the Second Coming all that is in the world that is bad (the unrighteous and wicked people, are gathered by the angels and sent to hell. This is at the same time of the separation of the sheep and goat nations. {{Matthew 25:31-34 “WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES IN HIS GLORY, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne and ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE GATHERED BEFORE HIM, and He will separate them from one another as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and He will put THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT AND THE GOATS ON THE LEFT. Then the King will say to those on His RIGHT, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world”}} {{Matthew 25:41 “Then He will also say to those on His LEFT, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.”}}

5. Be absolutely certain that the Church is not on the earth at the end of the age. It has been in heaven for 7 years; has the Marriage Supper of the Lamb at the start of Revelation 19 IN HEAVEN, then she comes with the Lord back to earth at the Second Coming.

6. The righteous mentioned in verse 43 are the Jewish saints coming through the Great Tribulation, and coming from all over the world. As mentioned earlier the righteous fit in here – {{Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL RISE with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.”}}

7. Then in verse 44 the parable qualifies what was just said. The explanation of the hidden treasure, are the Jews gathered from all over the world “unearthed from all nations”. It is Israel redeemed. Paul is very exact on this point – {{Romans 11:25-27 “Brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a PARTIAL HARDENING HAS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES HAS COME IN, and thus ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion. HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.” “And this is MY COVENANT WITH THEM, when I take away their sins.”}}. It is shameful that people write Israel off and make this an allegory.