“THE
41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28
general and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
Parable
#7 - “THE TARES”
Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-39,40-42
This
2nd of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables.
BACKGROUND:
In
445BC, with one Bible week equating to seven years (a prophetic
year being 360 days), God commanded that seventy weeks each of 7
years, would be determined upon Israel, that is … 70 weeks x 7
years = 490 years (Daniel 9:24-27).
This
time frame is broken into four time periods of (a) 7 weeks + (b)
62 weeks + (c) the mystery church age of about 2,000 years +
(d) 1 week = 70 weeks and is explained as follows:
#1. Seven
weeks of years is 7 x 7 = 49 years … the time it takes to restore
and build Jerusalem from 445BC to 396BC.
#2. Sixty
two weeks of years is 62 x 7 = 434 years … the time from the
building of Jerusalem in 396BC to Christ being cut off at the cross in 32AD.
#3. The
church age of approximately 2,000 years
#4. One
week of years is 1 x 7 = 7 years … this is the seven years of
tribulation of God’s wrath upon the earth, that takes place after the rapture …
called Daniel’s 70th week.
The kingdom of heaven = Christ’s ministry and the seven years of tribulation
A man = Christ the
Son of man (Matthew 13:37)
The good seed = the
children of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13:38)
The field = the world not
just Israel (Matthew 13:38)
The enemy = the devil,
the wicked one, Satan (Matthew 13:39)
The tares = children
of the wicked one, Satan (Matthew 13:38)
The time of harvest = the end of the world at the end of the seven years of tribulation of
Daniel’s 70th week (Matthew 13:39). This is Israel’s final week of
the kingdom of heaven on earth. This is not the kingdom of God time
which finished at the rapture. This is the time of a rapture of Israel, and the
world (Matthew 24:40-41), where angels will gather the good seed … just before Armageddon
and the return of the Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19).
The reapers = the angels
(Matthew 13:39)
Burn = hell fire
(Matthew 13:42)
Barn = God’s
kingdom in heaven
Tares
look like wheat when growing but at the time of harvest they
are proud and upright because they have no grain on the end of
their stalks … no fruit. The good wheat is heavy with grain, bent over and humble
and worshipping the Lord.
Israel
has rejected Christ lest they hear and see (Matthew 13:13) and so they are not
ready to hear about their eventual fate in the seven year tribulation … but
they are warned with this parable and indeed the other twelve kingdom parables
… making thirteen in all.
APPLICATION
TO CHRISTIANS
The
tares today are your pretend “Christians” proudly prancing around true
Christian churches … in the kingdom of God, as well.
The
harvest for the Christian church will be the rapture … in fact … it will
be a ‘reverse harvest’ as it were.
The
tall, proud and unsaved pretenders will not be harvested first, and will
enter the seven years of tribulation.
It
will be the bent over, humble and saved will be harvested first in the
rapture. Unlike the tares in the tribulation, which are harvested first.
If
you’re still here after the reverse harvest of the rapture, you weren’t a
Christian … you were a Catholic, an SDA, a Mormon, a follower of Christ, indeed
someone who wanted to be like Christ or follow Christ … but were not saved.
October
2023
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“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
Parable #8 -
“MUSTARD SEED”
Matthew
13:31-32
This
is the 3rd of the 13 kingdom of heaven parables.
It
also has application to the kingdom of God in Mark 4:30-32; Luke 13:18-19
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