The two Parables that Jesus told about wheat

When  I was in my early  forties I purchased 40 acres of nice level land that was planted in barley. It was in the spring time and nice and green. It was beautiful and I was so happy!  It was something I had always wanted. I had always wanted to be farmer and work the land. I loved to drive down country roads and look at the dark brown tilled land with no weeds and no litter, just soft clean cultivated land. I loved the early spring grain fields and enjoyed the fragrance of the damp earth. I appreciated golden grain waving in summer harvest time.  Alas that was not be for me.  We immediately entered into a 4yr. drought.  My crop didn't get the spring rains it needed.  I was unable to buy the water I had been promised.  My crop failed and I lost the land.  I learned in due time, little by little, that God wanted me to be a farmer, but a different kind of farmer.  He wanted me to work in his kingdom.  He said in one place, "say not in 3 months and then comes the harvest".  He said look upon the fields for they are white unto harvest already.  But the laborers are few.  Pray, therefore, that the Lord of the harvest send in more laborers.

Over the years, God gave me several different assignments.  He opened the doors for me to sow the seeds of the Gospel for approximately 8 yrs in a field called prison ministries.  He had me casting 45,000 Gospel seeds or tracts to people in blacktop parking lots, and on College campuses.  Shopping centers are fertile fields that produce fruit.  It is hard ground so it requires watering with prayer. 

 In 1972 or 73  I found my self sharing God's word in a most unlikely place, to  3 orthodox Jewish Rabbi's on stage at the Hillel Hebrew academy in Beverly Hills.  God gave me their attention and interest.  They were kind and attentive to me and the scriptures I showed them from the 18th chp. of Deuteronomy.  Those scriptures are talking about their Messiah.  I was well recieved by the Rabbi's, but some of the other Jewish men in the large audience were not so kind and physically removed me from the stage and the building.  I was protected, however, by an elderly Jewish lady that God had provided for me.

 I was an elder in our local Christian church.  I was able to work as an operator and announcer at 2 different radio stations playing Gospel music and teaching the word of God.  I have been blessed to minister to my own relatives and friends.  Now God has given me a world wide internet ministry as you see here on this website.  You might call me a Bible teacher or Internet Evangelist.   We have had over 3 million hits from different countries.  So God has blessed me in his harvest and work of the kingdom of Christ Jesus.  Anyone working in his kingdom reaps eternal rewards that are not corrupted or stolen.  So you see, I wound up being a farmer after all.  Gods thoughts are much higher than ours.

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  Jesus used several different parables about the work in his kingdom.  He told his fishing buddies that he would make them fishers of men.  They cast a wide net and brought in many people to the kingdom from different countries in the middle east during the early years of the church.  Sometimes they were persecuted and would have to flee to a different area.  Where ever they went, they went boldly where no man had gone before.  Does that sound familiar?  The apostle Paul said some plow.  That would be like breaking up hard fallow ground in people hearts.  Some sow or teach the Gospel seeds and plant them in the good ground. Some water with their prayers.  Some would harvest or pick the fruit when it is ripe for the picking, but each receives his or her reward in the kingdom.  Jesus also said I am the true vine and you are the branches.  If you abide in me you will bear much fruit.  If you don't abide in me, you will wither up and be cut off and cast into the fire.  If you bear fruit, I will prune you that may bear more fruit.  The seeds have been sown in every nation now, and he said when that occurs his 2nd coming is near.

This 1st parable seems to deal with the individual person and the way they respond to the Gospel seeds

Mathew 13

And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: ⁵Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: ⁶And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. ⁷And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: ⁸But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 

⁹Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁰And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? ¹¹He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹²For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. ¹³Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. ¹⁴And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 

15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. ¹⁶But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. ¹⁸Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 

¹⁹When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. ²⁰But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; ²¹Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. ²²He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. ²³But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

 The yellow blooms are tares

This second parable seems to be dealing with the nations and how God cast the seeds into his field the earth; but Satan came along and sowed tares, or weed seeds, along with Gods good seeds. They grow through the ages side by side and their roots become entangled with the good wheat seeds so they can't be uprooted by men, but by Gods angels at the end of this dispensation of grace, or church age. 

We see how America and other nations have so much corruption and evil people entwined with our government and society that it is beyond mans ability to purge it.  A good example of this is when terrorists set up their rocket launching pads on school grounds and next to hospitals, so if Israel responds there is collateral damage to children and civilians.  Another example is Mexico, where the lawlessness has made it hell on earth, and the government is powerless to do any thing about it.  The communists in America have infiltrated our schools, colleges, church's, businesses, courts and all levels of government. They control unions,  banking, and corporations.  The political parties have been infiltrated by NWO operatives and globalist traitors that work for the antichrist world government.  We are ready for the great harvest described below.  Are you ready for something better?

²⁴Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: ²⁵But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. ²⁶But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. ²⁷So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? ²⁸He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 

²⁹But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. ³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. ³¹Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: ³²Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. 

³³Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. ³⁴All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: ³⁵That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. ³⁶Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 

³⁷He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; ³⁸The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; ³⁹The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. ⁴¹The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; ⁴²And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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                                                                                              Commentary by Bill Hicks      Scriptures by the word of God.

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