The Wheat and the Tares

The Wheat and the Tares

This parable teaches that there are true and false believers together growing in the world. Anyone that has a very basic knowledge of gardening, would know that if you were to sow your seeds at the beginning of the growing season, and left them untended until the time of reaping, or harvest, what sight would await them!
You would hardly be able to see what you had planted, such will it be at the end of the age. 'Narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it'  Matthew 7.14. The Saviour in the very next verse warns us to 'Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.' To any true Christian with a small amount of Biblical discernment, it cannot have escaped their notice the sheer volume of men and women the world around that have set up in ministry work, even calling themselves 'prophets', 'apostles','bishops' and other such titles. One only has to go on TBN to see this to be the case. Some of these people have considerable followings and are basically nothing more than pantomine performers. They often talk fast and furiously, throwing Bible verses about, mixing these with whatever they may be teaching. This has a 'form of godliness' 2 Timothy 3.5, and the Apostle goes on to tell believers to 'turn away' from such people. The problem that I see is that these false teachers, prophets are not entirely to blame, they are feeding into a market place, for people love to be deceived. For 2 Timothy 4.3 says very clearly "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears." Note that the verse says " after their own lusts"!