Continued from previous post.
VERSE 36 “Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us (A special request for interpretation) the parable (In every parable explained by our Lord, the thing said is never the thing meant.) of the tares of the field.”
VERSE 37 “He answered and said unto them, He that sows (Jesus and the Apostles, and all his true followers) the good seed (The Gospel of the Kingdom) is the Son of man (His disciples and followers having assisted under his direction).”
VERSE 38 “The field is the world (The world of mankind; and the seed is sown in their hearts.); the good seed are the children of the kingdom (the spiritual children); but the tares (the imitation wheat, posing as Christians, the result of false doctrines, false teachings, and therefore not begotten of the Holy Spirit despite what they may have been taught) are the children of the wicked one (The whole world of mankind, excepting the true Christians, born in sin and shapen in iniquity, aliens and strangers from God, may be spoken of as "children of the wicked one).”
VERSE 39 “The enemy that sowed them (with seeds of false doctrines, error, deceptions, using human lips and pens in Satan's service through pride and ambition. Thus bringing the worldly masses into the church) is the devil; the harvest (There is a large crop of tares and the time of trouble coming upon the church should be recognized as the harvest, the threshing time, the time for separating the real grain, the true Christians from the chaff and tares the false Christians) is the end (is that which constitutes the end. The Greek word “suntelia”, translated "end," does not mean a "point," but a "period of time." The harvest of this age and the end of the evil world or dispensation terminate together. Just before the inauguration of the new age of Christ's Millennial Kingdom. The regathering of Israel is a sign of the end of this age, and therefore a sign that we are living in the harvest time) of the world (Of the age: Greek aion, The Gospel age); and the reapers (Those who have learned that it is harvest time and that their work is in the gathering of the wheat.) are the angels. (the messengers, begotten of his spirit, the saints of God, His servants. Every faithful disciple who now follows in the Master's footsteps has the privilege now of being a co-worker with him in reaping this harvest).”
VERSE 40 “As therefore the tares are gathered (into bundles, sects, denominations and etc.) and burned in the fire (Destroyed as tares in a time of trouble; not however literally burned as some imagine, their delusions [faith in their organizations, churches] will be dissolved, thus signifying the destruction of the false pretensions of this class, in the sense that none of them thereafter will claim to be what they are not, none of them will claim to be Christians anymore. And thus they shall be returned to the ground, the world, from whence they came. That the entire field might be cleansed and made ready for a new sowing of the pure seed of truth); so shall it be in the end of this world (age).”
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