{"id":2939,"date":"2014-01-01T05:52:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2021-12-18T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:08:24","slug":"matthew-1336-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 13:36-43"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">36\u00a0Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, \u201cExplain to us the parable of the tares of the field.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">37\u00a0He answered and said to them:\u00a0\u201cHe who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">38\u00a0The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked\u00a0one.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">39\u00a0The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">40\u00a0Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">41\u00a0The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">42\u00a0and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">43\u00a0Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>This is the explanation of the parable that the Lord taught in <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2927\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">vs. 24-30<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3>In the Millennial Kingdom, those who believe in Jesus Christ are represented by the wheat in this parable. Those who don&#8217;t believe are the tares.<\/h3>\n<h3>Sin will be punished severely, so those who don&#8217;t believe will behave and look very much like believers, just as tares look like wheat.<\/h3>\n<h3>But at the end of the age, the unbelievers will be separated and thrown into everlasting fire.<\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number\u00a0is\u00a0as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where\u00a0the beast and the false prophet\u00a0are.\u00a0And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever (Revelation 20:7-10).<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>36\u00a0Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, \u201cExplain to us the parable of the tares of the field.\u201d 37\u00a0He answered and said to them:\u00a0\u201cHe who sows the good seed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}