SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/22/2022 10:00 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-6 “The Interpretation of the Parable
of the Wheat and Tares”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
13:34-43
Message of the verses: ““34 All these
things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and He did not speak to them
without a parable, 35 so that what was spoken through the prophet might be
fulfilled, saying, "I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN PARABLES; I WILL UTTER THINGS
HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD." 36 Then He left the multitudes,
and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain
to us the parable of the tares of the field." 37 And He answered and said,
"The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 38 and the field is the
world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the
evil one; 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the
age; and the reapers are angels. 40 “Therefore just as the tares are
gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. 41
"The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of
His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and will
cast them into the furnace of fire; in that place there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. 43 "Then THERIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN in
the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.”
We begin today what I think will be the last SD on better
understanding what the Parable of the Wheat and Tares means. We begin by talking about when our Lord Jesus
Christ returns and He will “come in the glory of His Father with His angels;
and will then recompense every man according to his deeds” as seen in Matt.
16:27. The angels then will deal “out
retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the
gospel of our Lord Jesus. And these will
pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and
from the glory of His power” quoted from 2 Thess. 1:8-9.
MacArthur writes “Fire causes the greatest pain known to man, and the furnace of fire into which the sinners are cast represents the excruciating torment of hell, which is the destiny of every unbeliever. This fire of hell is unquenchable (Mark 9:44), eternal (Matt. 25:41), and is pictured finally as a great ‘lake of fire which burns with brimstone,’ (Rev. 19:20). The punishment is so fearsome that in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
There are some people today who believe that hell
will be a place where those going there will be able to continue to do their “thing”
while believers in heaven will be doing their “thing.” This is not true at all as hell is a real
place where the suffering will go on forever as there will be no pleasure in
hell of any kind of degree, only torment, “day and night forever and ever”
(Rev. 20:10).
Here is the last words of explanation from the lips of
our Lord and it is positive, beautiful and it is hopeful: “Then the righteous will shine forth as the
sun in the kingdom of their Father.” Let
us now look at Matthew 24:31 “"And He will send
forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect
from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” After that the very long awaited, long-appointed
and long-postponed kingdom of righteousness, in which there will be no evil
people and no evil deeds or even thoughts will arrive. I have studied what will happen during the
end times as long as I have been a believer and here are some of the things
that I have learned. At this time we are
living in the church age, or the invisible kingdom with our Lord ruling from
heaven. It began in the 2nd
chapter of Acts and will end at the Rapture of the church, 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18. Very soon after that the
Antichrist will arrive and make a peace covenant with Israel for seven years
which begins what is called the Tribulation period. At the end of this seven year time of horror
the Lord will return as seen in the 19th chapter of Revelation. He will then stop the battle of Armageddon
and begin the process of separating the sheep and the goats. The sheep will go into the 1000 year kingdom
with Christ ruling from David’s throne in Jerusalem, and the goats will go into
a place of torment, but I don’t believe it is hell at this point. The devil and his demons will be there and so
as this time begins there will only be believers. As the kingdom goes on children will be born
and they too will need to be saved as they are all born with the sin nature
that all of us are born with. Some will
not become believers and at the end of the 1000 year kingdom Satan will be
released and there will be a short battle, and they will be defeated. It is during what the Bible calls “The Great
White Throne Judgment” that all unbelievers will be resurrected to stand before
God. They will all have a resurrected
body and they will all then go into hell as there will be a need of a new body
so the flames of hell will not consume them.
After that according to 2 Peter the entire universe will be what I like
to say, will be uncreated and then will come the New heaven, new earth and the
New Jerusalem and this is where eternity will begin and go on forever. As mentioned hell will be a real place and so
the way to avoid hell is to realize that you were born a sinner and that you
sin and that Jesus Christ died for you, and so believe this confess you are a
sinner and you sin and then invite Jesus to come into your heart and save you
and then this will change your eternal destination from hell to heaven.
Lord willing we will begin to look
at Matthew 13:44-46 in our next SD as MacArthur entitles this 35th
chapter in his second volume of his commentaries on Matthew “ENTERING THE
KINGDOM.” We will begin with a very
short introduction.
4/22/2022 10:32
AM
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