Our Wheat and Tares Parable

Our Wheat and Tares Parable January 15, 2025

Jesus Christ’s parable of the wheat and tares provides such a curious visual representation of the last days.  The sower sows a field of wheat. At night, an enemy creeps in and sows tares among the wheat.  Rather than risk injuring the young wheat, the sower allows the wheat and tares to grow together.

At harvest time, wheat is easily distinguishable from tares.  Wheat matures to a golden color, with upright, long, narrow leaves, strong stalks, and large and plump seeds with a hard outer shell. Tares may still be green or brown with rough leaves and small and irregularly shaped seeds.

In the parable, reapers gather the wheat and burn bundles of tares in the field.

[F]or the time of harvest is come, and my word must needs be fulfilled.

Therefore, I must gather together my people, according to the parable of the wheat and the tares, that the wheat may be secured in the garners to possess eternal life, and be crowned with celestial glory, when I shall come in the kingdom of my Father to reward every man according as his work shall be;

While the tares shall be bound in bundles, and their bands made strong, that they may be burned with unquenchable fire.

Our Wheat and Tares Gathered

After our house fire, Anthony and I perused the burnt remnants the firefighters tossed from the attic to the garage floor. We noticed a box that seemed unscathed.

How was that possible?  We stored this box with three other completely destroyed boxes: the gourds and tin pitchers.

I opened the undamaged box and to my utter astonishment found that not a hint of damage occurred to this box of . . . wheat.

wheat and tares parable

This cardboard box full of dry, flammable tinder inexplicably and completely survived an inferno. I can’t even begin to describe how significant this little miracle felt to me.  It was like the Lord said, “This is a chance to create a core memory about this parable you will never forget, and I’m taking it.”

The flaming gourds and tin pitchers became placeholders of the infamous tares, purchased and stored together until the day of burning. And the wheat? It represented itself. And the parable’s power of God was manifested in destruction and preservation.

I’ve thought of that gathered, unscathed box of wheat almost daily over the past month and all it represents about my deepest hopes and desires of being gathered at the throne of God.

[T]he harvest is the end of the world; 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 world. . . .

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

 

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