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By Grant Phillips

Well, it’s that time of year again. Spring is here, and guess what else is here? You got it. Weeds. Thanks Adam. By the sweat of our brow is right.

As soon as the rain stops here and the ground dries up, I need to address the weed situation that has already started. Many of you will be doing the same. The weed eaters will be running at top speed, spewing weed clippings in every direction. I don’t like to weed eat. I used to work with a fellow who absolutely loved to weed eat. Not me. So a few years ago I chose another way to get around that little problem.

My weed eater comes in a jug. It’s called Roundup. I run it down the fence line, the driveway, sidewalk, and a few other spots. Yes, I also kill the grass that is on the edge of these areas, but I don’t have to weed eat either, so it works for me. I’ve noticed some of our neighbors are now doing this. Sure beats weed eating and it last about four to six months.

As far as weeds that may be out in the lawn itself, they will have to be dealt with individually by pulling them up.

I have no idea how many different weeds there are, but here are just a few you may have heard of.

Crabgrass, Pigweed, Chickweed, Quackgrass, Lamb’s Quarters, Morning Glory, Purslane, Buckhorn Plantain, Cannabis, Dandelion, Sumac, Ragweed, Dead Nettle, Speedwell (Veronica), Goosegrass, Wild Onion or Wild Garlic, Indian Strawberry, White Clover, Ground Ivy (Weeping Charlie). Sheep or Red Sorrel, Mouse-ear Chickweed, Carpetweed, Shepherd’s purse

The time is now upon us that many of you, and I, will prepare a small garden spot in the back yard just for the fun of it. I will till the ground up, mix in some cow manure, garden soil, a little lime, and some peat moss. Then I’ll cultivate this until the ground is ready for planting.

Much time will be spent, enjoyable time though, laying the rows and planting the plants. When the tomato plants, for example, get high enough, I’ll stake each one. Then … I’ll spend the rest of the Summer keeping it weeded. No Roundup here. Gotta use a hoe. Isn’t it amazing that you don’t have to do anything to get weeds to grow?

Jesus also had something to say about weeds in the following passage.

“Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. “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?’ “ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ “ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 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 13:24-30 NIV)

Apparently the zizania of this parable is the darnel weed. Before it ears, it will have an appearance of wheat. Now we can understand why the owner told his servants to wait until the harvest to separate the wheat from the tares. Sure don’t want to pull up the wheat along with the weeds.

Jesus explains this parable in verses 36-43. We see from these verses that Jesus is the Sower (v.37). The good seed are believers (v.38). The tares (bad seed or weeds) are the unbelievers (v.38). The enemy who sowed the tares is the Devil (v.39). The harvest is the end of the age (v.39). The reapers are the angels (v.39).

Jesus said that this parable is an example of the kingdom of Heaven. The kingdom of Heaven, at this point, consists of those who are believers and those who are unbelievers, or wheat and tares (weeds).

The kingdom of Heaven has many tares growing alongside the wheat until the end of the age. However, the day is coming, perhaps very soon, that the harvest will separate true believers from those who are just believers in name only. At the harvest the wheat will be gathered and taken into the barn (go into the Millennium), and the tares will be gathered, judged and burned (thrown into the lake of fire).

Since part of the harvest refers to when Jesus judges the world in the Tribulation (Revelation 14:14-16), remember that the Church will be in Heaven. It was harvested at the Rapture. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

We’ve gone this far, we might as well take a short look at the two parables that follow the wheat and the tares. They are all about the kingdom of heaven.

“He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” (Matthew 13:31-32 NIV)

The Church started out very, very small, but as the mustard seed, it has grown from just a few original followers of Christ to millions and millions of true followers along with those who merely profess Christ but do not know Him. Unfortunately, the “birds” have come and are perching in its branches. To understand who the birds are read Matthew 13: 4, 19. They are Satan and his minions.

Just as the tares have become mixed in with the wheat, so this parable is saying, for example, that many in the Church are not the true Church. They are Christians in name only. Jesus told the disciples to go into the world (Matthew 28:19), but since Constantine of Rome, the world has come into the Church. Only Jesus can separate true believers from those who are false, and this He will do.

He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.” (Matthew 13:33 NIV)

Since yeast always represents sin in the Bible, this parable of Jesus is saying that false doctrine leading to apostasy has infiltrated the church.

Jesus said of the last days before His return, “… when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)

The apostle Paul warned his protégé Timothy, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” (2 Timothy 4:3-4 NKJV)

From the pews and the pulpits, the tares stand along with the wheat. Who can tell them apart?

The birds of prey have brought the world into the church while they nest in the rafters of the souls of men.

The leaven of false doctrine rises forth and appeases itching ears.

Laodicea, the church that has come forth at the end of the church age, is eaten up with apostasy (Revelation 3:14-19). The Lord knows who are His and who are not. He will separate them at the harvest and put an end to the bad seed.

Grant Phillips
Email: [email protected]
Pre-Rapture Commentary: http://grant-phillips.blogspot.com
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    • xredsx

      I believe God will save us all. We all know that God is all knowing. And even us humans know that a small handful of corrupted rich are responsible for the suffering of the garden of Eden and its souls. Greed poisons a man soul. All this chaos in the world is nothing but the passing of men with greed.

      • Truthseeker

        xredsx

        What was in Adam is carnal human nature –which all of mankind has inherited — Christ made the statement NONE are good no not one.

        You are just as sinful as those you point your finger at.

        You have earned the penalty of death as have every person that has ever drawn a breath, If one Law is broken -all are broken.

        What God is doing with man is converting that sinful carnal human nature into HIS Holy righteous perfect Divine nature.

        and at this time He is only doing so with a tiny few which are called the First Fruits.

        The problem is impossible for man as man is 100% evil and that includes me and you, but God know how to remove that evil nature and replace it with HIS.

        Not all will repent but most will finally repent and turn to OBEY.

        The Lake of Fire is for those that refuse to repent.

        • xredsx

          My dear friend. Asking to merely be saved may not be the true message of Christ but to save us all is. I don’t recall ever asking God forgiveness but i have apologised on more then one occasion. God does not intend to abandon his sons and daughters. God loved humanity so much he sent his only begotten son to earth. Not to condemn it but to save us. The people of the earth have been deceived and merely just need waking up to the truth. Jesus is returning, at least within his name. Jesus first came to the earth to free us and this is his intention the second time round too. Jesus Christ in translation means “God saves” and “anointed”. The British throne is the last line of defence for Christianity. The fall of the church was not caused by accident but deliberately. Something incredible happened to me a couple of years ago and i have only recently realised and learned that it takes 3 pure Angels to bring someone from the darkness and back into the light. Ask for them and they may come. You will you know when they do. I had goosebumps, if not it will be in the numbers. Question me if you may because questioning is how we truly grow. Pray and “May justice, mercy and peace prevail among the nations”.

      • jknbt

        sorry, friend, but not everyone is going to make it…see

        http://www.epm.org/blog/2012/Sep/3/universalism-will-everyone-go-heaven

        http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_salvation.htm

        Revelation 20:15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

        • xredsx

          Think about this my friend.. The day when the purest of the pure follow God while he perishes the rest of us, will be the day when we has a species finally lose our humanity. I can’t give enough praise to the men and women who preach God’s way. But all this talk of ends of days is nothing but false hood with nothing but negative energy. Good will prevail over evil, but the awaken ones must together, shine the light. Only concentrate your thoughts, feelings and words with positive energy. Man deserves hope, and without hope then all will be lost.

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