Post by Lee on Jan 12, 2014 16:48:50 GMT
Sower = Christ
Field = Jewish World (not the ecclesia)
Good Seed = The truth as embodied in its true believers
The immediate destruction of the wicked would have interfered with the development of the righteous.
"First" as the Parable required, at the end of the Jewish world, the tare-class were gathered into Jerusalem, as unto a furnace of fire (AD 70).
Wheat will be gathered at Christ's return.
Nazareth Revisited
Field = Jewish World (not the ecclesia)
Good Seed = The truth as embodied in its true believers
The immediate destruction of the wicked would have interfered with the development of the righteous.
"First" as the Parable required, at the end of the Jewish world, the tare-class were gathered into Jerusalem, as unto a furnace of fire (AD 70).
Wheat will be gathered at Christ's return.
Nazareth Revisited