"Let both grow together until the harvest;
and at harvest time I will tell the reapers,
Gather the weeds first
and bind them in bundles to be burned,
but gather the wheat into my barn."
Matthew 13:30
GOOD SEED
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater (Isa. 55:10).
SOWN IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
"Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear." (Mt 13:43)
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness (2 Cor. 9:10).
Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you (Hos. 10:12).
WEEDS
Thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins (Prv. 24:31).
The weeds are the sons of the evil one (Mt. 13:38). Evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand (2 Sam. 23:6).
They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field (Hos. 10:4). There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed (Hos. 4:2).
Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness (Am. 6:12).
HARVEST
On the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain (Is. 17:11).
I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand (Rv. 14:14). Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe (Joel 3:13).
As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come (Mk. 4:29). A reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the grain with his arm (Isa. 17:15). His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire (Mt.3:12).
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels (Mt. 13:39). Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe" (Rev. 14:15).
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