Did you ever have some kind of colored building blocks when you were a child? Probably most of us did, and one thing that I can remember doing with my blocks was that I would go through them all and separate them by their colors, reds all in one pile by themselves, blues over there, yellow blocks in another pile, and so on, until I had a pile of each color in front of me. Now of course after I had made my structures out of the blocks they would all get grouped up together with each other in their container, but the next time that I pulled them out do you know what I did? I separated them all once again.
Maybe you have ever gone picking wild berries out in the woods before? Then if you have you will know that during the picking sometimes you will get some bad berries mixed in with the good ones. There might be some berries that are a bit overripe and soft, or completely bad altogether, but while you are out actually picking them you usually don’t worry about separating them at that moment, but will instead separate them all when you get back home, throwing away the bad, and keeping the good.
This Earth is kind of like those colored blocks or bowls of berries, except that instead of blocks or berries we are human beings, some good, and some bad, and one day everyone will go through a separation process which will separate those who are good from the bad and evil
Matthew 13:24-30 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, then appeared the tares also.
So 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?
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 to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
In His parable Jesus used an example of two plants growing together in a field, one wheat, and the other known as a tare. Now wheat we all know is used to make flour, but do you know what a tare is? Well a tare (also known as a darnel) is a plant that resembles wheat so greatly that you can hardly tell them apart until the plant starts to produce its grain, after which the difference can be seen. In this parable it was commanded that the two plants be let alone to grow together, and it would be at the harvest that they would be separated, the good wheat into the barns, and the bad thrown away to be burned.
That is how it will be at the return of Christ. When Jesus returns the angels will come and separate those who have remained faithful in the Lord and receive them up to the Lord in the heavens, and the bad, the unrepentant and evil will be gathered up and cast into hell.
Matthew 13:37-42 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 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.
The 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;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The separation is coming, one day, and we must remain among the faithful who serve the Lord so that we may receive salvation. Like separating good berries from the bad, be sure that you are among the good who are saved. Hell is most definitely a real place, reserved for the wicked and disobedient; don’t be among that group that is cast away.
In Christ
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 