Evening journal., 1912-07-27


ines, but He allowed the matter to 20
on, fully assured that He would have
In the end the crop which He desired
and very content to allow a great
lesson TO be taught by the presence. of
the "tares' and the ultimate treat
ment accorded the wheat"
The Lord could have hindered the
Adversary from bringing in the false
doctorines in the early centuries, or
He could have separated centuries
ago between the wheat and tare cless-
es but this was not according to His
intention. as the parable shows. He
purposed to "let both grow together
until the Harvest" So it has been
true that Christiane and imitation
Christians have lived side by side in
the same city, in the same house, md
oftentimes in the same family-the
one the result of the true Gospel
Message Of the Kingdom, leading to a
full consecration and begetting of the
Holy Spirit, and to the entrance upon
a new life; the other with merely
"a form of godliness," intermixed
with worldly wisdom. earthly am
bition and selfish desires.
In the Common Version the words.
"The Harvest is the end of the
world" have been seriously misun-
derstood II does not mean the end
of time, nor the end of the earth
its distruction-nor the end of Di-
vine favor Il merely means the
end of the present Age. This Age
will close when it has accomplished
its intended work-when the full
number of Gods elect shall have
been found faithful and ready for the
garner"
SIN the Time of the Harvest
This expression signifies that the
Harvest of this Age will not be an
instantaneous wor1, but a gradual
one, requiring time. There is good
reason for believing that the Harvest
of this Age is peroid of forty years,
as the Harvest of the Jewish Age
was of that length. In this time of
the Harvest two things will be gath
cred into bundles" ready for the
burning destruction. (2) The
wheat" at the same time, will be
gathered into tho "garner"-the
heavenly Kingdom.
"They shall gather out Of His King
dom all things which offend, and
them which do iniquity; there
shall be wailing and gnashing Of
teeth" Let us remember that these
"tares" arc not all of the world Of
mankind. but merely that portion of
them associted with the Kingdom
class-that portion which now verify
believe that they are Gods people, as
| the Pharisees considered themselves
in the Harvest Of the Jewish Age.
There will be two classes amongst
these 'tares'; one class. doors of in
iquity Gnequity, unrighteousness) .
( the other class those that have caused
others to stumble. Doubtless this
will include many teachers and
preachers, aud many doers of wonder
ful work.
But We must not forget that we are
considering parable and that the
"tares" are symbolical, and likewise
the furnace" and the FIRE" The
Interpretation is that, in the end of
this Age, the Harvest time, there will
/ be great "time of trouble" for all
/ nations, society governments. finan-
| cial institutions, etc. The wheat
class will be saved from that time
Of trouble by the resurrection
change But the "tares" will not be
saved from it; they will be cast into
the trouble aud have their portion
with the hypocrites
That trouble will not last forever
Many Scriptures seem to slow that
it viii be terrific. but of very short
duration. It will be on tho earth, and
not in some far-off place. When tn,
FIRE" Of that great day of ansrch,
y and trouble shall cease to burn,
there will be no more ''tares" ther
will be NJ more people having mer
forms of godliness and pretension
for the Kingdom, legotten Of error.
All humanity will he greatly humt
led, and. according to the Scriptures
y ready and anxious sor Messiah
Kingdom which viii then be establish
T. cd Il will be the desire of a
a nations -fcggai ii. -. Those form
a erly "tares.' as well as the remainde
ls of the groaning creation. will we
!, come it and its blessings In tn;
II Kingdom the righteous, the garnerei
glorihed wheat class shall shin
forth as the sun" for the blessing
w. all the families Of the earth.-Matthe
& xiii, 43, Galatians Ill 90