Gathering The Tares

Some people have expressed surprise at the rapid growth of the various left wing organizations. They are not able to understand how, in a nation with our history of freedom, justice and opportunity; so many could be attracted to organizations, which want to set up a communist totalitarian government. To those who are familiar with their Bibles, this should cause no surprise at all, for it is fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

�� There are in the world two basic types of people. First, those to

whom religion and the things of the spirit

�� have a deep appeal and who deeply love liberty. Secondly, there

are those who are materialistic and

�� power hungry. These latter are quickly and strongly attracted to

socialism by its materialism and its

�� concentration of tyrannical power in the hands of a few

commissars.

�� The division between the two was foretold by Yahshua in

Matthew 13:24‑30, 36‑43. "Another parable

�� put He forth unto them saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened

unto a man which sowed good seed in

�� his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares

among the wheat, and went his way. But

�� when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, there

appeared the tares also. So the servants of

� ��the householder came and said unto him Sir, didst thou not sow

good seed in thy fields? From whence

�� hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The

servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that

�� we go and gather them up? But he said Nay: lest while ye gather

up the tares, ye root up also the wheat

�� with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the

time of harvest I will say unto the reapers,

�� Gather ye first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them;

but gather the wheat into my barn. Then

�� Yahshua 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. He

answered and said unto them, He that soweth the

�� good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good

seed are the children of the kingdom; but

�� the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that

sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the

�� end of the age; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the

tares are gathered and burned in the fire,

�� so shall it be in the end of this age. The Son of man shall send

forth the angels, and they shall gather out of

�� his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity,

and shall cast them into a furnace of fire:

�� there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the

righteous shine forth in the kingdom of their

�� Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."

�� Yahweh's own household, the children of the kingdom, are the

good seed sown in the world. Their

�� loyalty is never swayed by materialistic, atheistic socialism,

whether you call it a New Deal, New

�� Horizons, or just plain communism. Living among them is

another group to whom the things of the spirit

�� have no appeal. During this age these two groups have grown

up together and in their early growth, it has

�� been sometimes hard to tell them apart.

�� However, the time of the harvest approaches, the end of this

age.� We, who study our Bibles, know that

�� this time is near at hand. In the harvest, the good seed and the

bad seed, the children of the kingdom and

�� the children of the wicked one, will be separated. Note that the

first part of the harvest consists of this

�� separation, for Yahshua said, "Gather ye first the tares and bind

them in bundles to burn them."

�� This takes place before the harvest of the wheat, the good seed.

Gathering the tares into bundles is a very

�� clear and logical simile for gathering the children of the wicked

one into groups or organizations. It serves

�� very well as a means to separate and distinguish between the

two families.

�� Yes, to discriminate is Biblical, for Yahweh always discriminates

between good and evil, between truth

�� and falsehood, between His own children and the others. So, the

gathering of the tares into bundles, or

�� organizations, is already in progress, indeed nearly completed.

�� This parable was no new approach to the problem. Many

prophets had given us warning of the

�� treacherous element in our midst. For example Isaiah 26:10

says, "Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet

�� will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he

deal unjustly and will not behold the

�� majesty of Yahweh." Surely this has been a land of uprightness,

as far as the nations go. Yet even here,

�� where every favor has been shown to them, these people have

not learned righteousness and they turn

�� against us most unjustly. They conspire to destroy the nation

which has sheltered them, given them

�� freedom and prosperity as they have never found anywhere

else. They seek to crush us into just a

�� conquered province of the United Nations, like Katanga, to be

ruled and plundered by the Afro/Asian

�� bloc of barbarian and savage nations under the leadership of

Moscow.

�� Yahweh foresaw this as it is told in Psalm 83:1‑4. "Keep not thou

silence O Yahweh: hold not thy peace

�� and be not still O Yahweh. For lo, Thine enemies make a tumult:

and they that hate Thee have lifted

�� up their heads. They have taken crafty counsel against Thy

people, and consulted against Thy hidden

�� ones. They have said, come, and let us cut them off from being a

nation." All their ambitions, their

�� ideals and purposes are completely adverse to ours and to all

that we hold dear. Notice that Yahweh

�� classifies them as not merely our enemies, but His enemies as

they are those that hate Him.

�� This gathering of the individual tares among us is exactly

parallel to the similar gathering of the beast

�� nations in this same judgment. Yahshua prophesied it in

Matthew 25:31‑34, 41. "When the Son of man

�� shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then

shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:

�� and before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall

separate them one from another, as a shepherd

�� divideth his sheep from the goats: and He shall set the sheep on

his right hand, but the goats on the

�� left. Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come

ye blessed of My Father, inherit the

�� kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Then shall He say unto them on the left

�� hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared

for the devil and his angels." Of course

�� there must be a division, separation, and discrimination, to say it

plainly. This is the purpose for which

�� Yahshua came. In Luke 12:51 Yahshua says, "Suppose ye that I

am come to give peace on earth? I tell

�� you nay: but rather division."

�� True to Yahshua's prophecies, the division has come in just the

way He said it would. Remember that the

�� goats, destined to everlasting fire, were to be placed on the left

side, while the sheep were on the right.

�� They have already divided this way. All the various forms and

names of materialistic, atheistic socialism,

�� New Dealism, New Horizons, and communism, all the variously

named bundles of the tares, are by their

�� own proclamation and universal recognition, classified as to the

left of center, on the left hand.

�� Those who recognize that Yahweh has spoken out plainly

against this materialism and atheism, tyranny

�� and trampling all people down to one level, are called right wing.

The official communist party line now

�� proclaims we are to be called extreme right wing. This is just

where Yahweh said that we would be.

�� Even in our English language, the deep seated racial instinct for

the truth has shown up. We recognize that

�� the plans of the left wing are to destroy our national

independence. Their wish to reduce us to slavery

�� under the dark races in a communist dominated United Nations,

is very sinister. You know the word

�� sinister means evil, corrupt, or base. This word sinister is

derived from the Latin word meaning left, or on

�� the left side.

�� Yes, the gathering of the tares into bundles, the various left wing

organizations, shows us how many of

�� them there are. It gives them the appearance of dangerously

great power. We who read the Bible and

�� know the word of Yahweh, have no reason for fear and despair.

The gathering of the tares is just a sign

�� that the end of the age is at hand, the time of our deliverance.

Remember that the tares are to be gathered

�� into bundles to be burned in the everlasting fire. Our God

Yahweh as His own will keep the wheat, the good seed. (Taken, in part, from an article entitled �Gathering The Tares, by Bertrand L. Comparet)