The Meaning Of The Parable Of Tares

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In 1 Corinthians 5th chapter, Paul instructed the church about excommunicating an unrepentant "brother". They were not to eat with saved believers living in sin.

Now imagine what God will do at the pre trib rapture event. Do you really think every Christian is going to be found abiding in Him when the Bridegroom comes? When was the last time any church excommunicate an unrepentant believer?

If the church does not do it because of not wanting to lose members; and just have their fingers crossed that the unrepentant believer living in sin will get the message from the pulpit one day and finally repent, then guess Who will do the excommunicating at the pre trib rapture event?

It does not mean they are not saved. Look at what Paul said excommunication does.

1 Corinthians 5:[SUP]4 [/SUP]In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, [SUP]5[/SUP]To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Will not Satan wage war on the saints during the great tribulation?

Now read the condition for fellowship as it must be the same for when sitting at the Marriage Supper table.

1 Corinthians 5:[SUP]9 [/SUP]I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: [SUP]10 [/SUP]Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. [SUP]11 [/SUP]But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

1 John 3:[SUP]8 [/SUP]He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

So there are tares in the church that are part of His kingdom which is why they were being taken out of His Kingdom when the angels takes the wheat from the field to the barn, leaving the tares behind in the field and thus in the world to face the coming fire on the earth and the subsequent great tribulation as of a result of that fire..

The call to every believer having His seal is to depart from iniquity now.. not tomorrow... now for the Bridegroom could come at any moment ( not to mention that death can strike at any moment )

The issue I have with this analogy is that in the parable of the tares, the tares are specifically identified as the children of the wicked one (Matt 13:38) and in vs. 39, we read that the enemy that sowed them is the devil.

So when it is stated that "it does not mean they are not saved" or that "there are tares in the church that are part of His kingdom", this is not what is stated in the parable of the tares.


The tares in Matt 13 are those who are not saved nor are the tares part of His Kingdom (even though they live in the same world as the good seed); the tares are the children of the wicked one. The good seed are the children of the kingdom (Matt 13:38), sown in this world by the Son of man (Matt 13:37).


I do agree that as children of the living God, we are to live our lives in light of that in order to draw the eyes of men to our Heavenly Father so that all may see His magnificence.

 

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The issue I have with this analogy is that in the parable of the tares, the tares are specifically identified as the children of the wicked one (Matt 13:38) and in vs. 39, we read that the enemy that sowed them is the devil.

So when it is stated that "it does not mean they are not saved" or that "there are tares in the church that are part of His kingdom", this is not what is stated in the parable of the tares.


The tares in Matt 13 are those who are not saved nor are the tares part of His Kingdom (even though they live in the same world as the good seed); the tares are the children of the wicked one. The good seed are the children of the kingdom (Matt 13:38), sown in this world by the Son of man (Matt 13:37).


I do agree that as children of the living God, we are to live our lives in light of that in order to draw the eyes of men to our Heavenly Father so that all may see His magnificence.

Correct. In the context of Mat 13, the tares are the rejecting Jews (especially the religious leaders). This theme is repeated throughout the Gospels. In Mt 3, John calls out the religious leaders and identifies them as the object of the "wrath to come." Judas, the betrayer and a Jew, is called, "the son of perdition."

In Mat 23, Jesus twice basically condemns the religious leaders of the day to hell just as He did in Mt 13 with the tares.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

The righteous (saved) of Israel and the wicked (unsaved and rejecting) Jews of Israel look alike and they "grow" together until the harvest. Let there be no doubt now about who the tares and wheat were of Mat 13. That harvest has come and went.

Today we are harvested and judged upon death. The rapture and resurrection happened at the end of the age (70 AD) just as predicted. There is no future need for either because we are now in the new age, the messianic age. Salvation is available to everyone. We die, we are judged. Those who go to heaven receive their new bodies then.