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)