Good morning. The kingdom
of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While men
were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. When the wheat
sprang up and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. The workers
wondered how this could've happened. The owner said that an enemy had done it.
Do you want us to go and gather the tares? No; lest while you are gathering the
tares, you may root up the wheat with them. Allow both to grow until the
harvest; and then we will first gather up the tares; bind and burn them; and
gather the wheat into the barn. We will now jump down to Jesus’ explanation.
The Son of Man sows the good seed, which are the sons of the kingdom. The field
is the world; the tares are the sons of the evil one; and the enemy is the
devil. The harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. At the
end of the age, the Son of Man will send
the forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling
blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace
of fire. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. This looks like the reverse of the rapture. The bad ones are removed
first. But it says that they are gathered out of His kingdom, not out of the
world in general. So it could very well be that He is talking about at the end
of the millennium. At that time, He will definitely remove the bad ones out of
the world. It neither refutes nor confirms the rapture. There is another
parable that says the same thing – we will talk about it another time. Father
thank You that You supply all of the reader’s needs. Help his/her family to
heal quickly.
So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed
Good morning. We left John at the entrance of the tomb, stooping and looking in. “Shy” Peter then arrives following John, and enters the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there. So the other disciple, John, who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. It does not say whether or not Peter believed. For as yet they did not understand the scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again to their own homes. I’m not exactly sure what it means by their own homes. They were originally from Galilee and would not have had homes in Jerusalem. Perhaps it means the homes where they were staying while in Jerusalem. Apparently, they were not staying in the upper room, or it would have said so. But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped (just like John) and looked into the tomb. She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been l...
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