The Fiery Wrath of God

                   Matthew 13:24-30  Matthew 13:36-43 KJB

This parable must be interpreted to mean exactly that which Jesus said and not in any way that changes what Jesus said. In this parable, Jesus said nothing about the Church or any unbelievers in the Church.

Jesus began His parable with a reference to a man who sowed good seed in his field. Jesus' statement agrees completely with God's creation of the world and of all humans that God creates to be good. God creates humans to be good, and Heaven and earth are in perfect agreement. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB).

An enemy came and sowed tares which grew with the wheat. Jesus' statement agrees completely with the fact that when humans sinned, then Satan gained the right to sow spiritual death into the inner beings of every human which inevitably causes humans to sin and commit evil acts. God warned Adam not to eat of the forbidden fruit because that would cause him to die. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). After Adam and Eve sinned, God cursed only the Devil and the ground which holds the regions of death. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God gave Adam and Eve, and their descendants, only temporary punishments for their sins, and so when God told Adam and Eve that they would physically die, He meant that it would be only a temporary punishment. Genesis 3:16-19 (KJB). Only the Devil and evil itself are under a permanent purge from all of God's creation. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). God did decree that the Devil would have his "seed" which he would plant inside every human, and God also decreed that the "seed" of the woman, who would be the Messiah, would utterly destroy the "seed" of the Devil. Christ will crush his head, which can only mean that Christ will completely purge the Devil and all evil out of His creation. I John 3:8 (KJB). Christ will also save from eternal death every living human that He ever creates. I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). God also made Eve "the mother of all living," and in Luke 20:38 Jesus taught that "all live unto Him"which can only mean that the Messiah would come to the earth to save all living humans from eternal death and the evil that it causes, not just those He would save by His grace. Genesis 3:14-21; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB).

The fact that the Messiah will save the entire, living human race from spiritual death agrees completely with the rest of Jesus' parable. Jesus warned that the "tares" must not be gathered until the time of the harvest because that would also destroy the "wheat." God will wait until all living humans become ready to repent and return to faith in Christ before He can separate the "wheat" which is inside of every human from the "tares" which are also inside every human. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). But in the time of the harvest which happens in the end of the world, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate the evil natures of all humans "on the earth, and under the earth" from their living natures which will have repented and returned to faith in Him when He appears to them. He will then forever save their living natures for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Romans 1:17; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Humans saved by grace will repent and believe when they hear the gospel. John 5:24; Romans 10:17 (KJB). That will be their harvest.

Jesus' explanation of the parable of the tares and wheat to His disciples clearly demonstrates His meaning of the parable. Jesus meant exactly that which He said. The "good seed" can only be all of the "children" of God which He sows in His "field" which is the world, not the Church. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But the "children" of the Devil can only be the "tares" which he sows into the hearts of all of the "children" of God. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The "harvest" is the end of the world when Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate all of His repentant, living humans from their dead and evil natures so that He can save their living natures, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. Psalm 36:6; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The "righteous" will be all of God's recreated, living humans whom He will save from eternal death.

Jesus further reinforced His teaching that He will save all of His living humans when He taught in Matthew 15:13: "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." This teaching of Jesus agrees completely with His parable of the tares and wheat. God will root up and utterly destroy all of the spiritual deaths and evil that the Devil has sown into the hearts of all of God's living humans, and He will save all of His repentant, living humans to live either in Heaven or on His recreated earth forever. John 17:24; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).