The Wheat And The Tares

The Wheat and the Tares

Did you see that it snowed yesterday morning? We got just a few flakes but it really did snow! I even got a video of it.

I’ve once seen a beautiful picture of a meadow with spring blossoming trees and dandelions as far as the eye can see. How beautiful! Then I realized that it’s not as pretty as I first thought. Could you imagine having a front yard full of dandelions as far as your eye could see?

So while walking around looking at the snow, another thing I noticed when walking around my front yard was I already have weeds growing in January! In January!

When you’re little blowing dandelions is really cool! When you’re older, you do everything you can to get rid of those evil things!

Every year I pull up weeds but every year I have a whole crop of new ones! So I’ve stumbled upon another immutable truth that besides death and taxes, you will always have weeds!

Now spiritually thinking, what are weeds? They are the lost or aka children of the evil one and the sower of those is the devil. So are children who blow dandelions near my yard little devils? ;-) Just kidding.

Put on your spiritual hats as we read this parable.

Matthew 13:24-30

24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. 27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ 28 “ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ 29 “ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’ ”

Matthew 13:36-43

36 Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” 37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. 40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

Tares

In these verses we are not talking about dandelions but instead tares. Tares are a false kind of wheat! Some people say the Bible are talking about a plant called a Dardel. A Dardel looks like wheat and when it grows the roots actually intertwine with wheat so that if you were to try to pull it up, you would also pull up the wheat.

Fate of the lost

In this age, the church age, we will always be living with good and evil people. Should we get used to it? I don’t know. but that’s just the way it is. But we know, at the end of this age, the lost (or tares) won’t be going to the next age (millennial age). Instead, we know their fate which is to be cast into the lake of fire.

Fate of the saved

What happens to the saved (wheat)? They will be saved and go into the millennial age (His kingdom on earth) and shine like the sun! What does shine like the sun mean? Not sure, but it could mean that their bodies will be transfigured (glorified) as Christ’s was at the transfiguration where He shone like the sun (speculation).

Matthew 17:1,2 The transfiguration

1After six days Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.