Proverbs 2:20-22: “So walk in the way of
goodness, and guard the paths of righteousness, for the set-apart (holy) shall
dwell in the earth, and the perfect (blameless) be left in it. But, the wicked
(crooked) shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous ones plucked up
out of it.”
The saved are not going anywhere but are staying
here on earth. It is the wicked that are leaving.
Matthew 13:24-30 Another parable He put before
them, saying, “The reign of the heavens has become like a man who sowed good
seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel among
the wheat and went away. “And when the blade sprouted and bore fruit, then the
darnel also appeared. “And the servants of the master of the house came and
said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where then
does it have the darnel?’ “And he said to them, ‘A man, an enemy did this.’ And
the servants said to him, ‘Do you wish then, that we go and gather them up?’
“But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the darnel you also uproot the
wheat with them. ‘Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of
harvest I shall say to the reapers, “First gather the darnel and bind them in
bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.” ’ ”
Matthew 13:36-50 Then, having sent the crowds
away, Yahusha went into the house. And His taught ones came to Him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.” And He answering, said
to them, “He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Adam, and the field is
the world. And the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, but the darnel
are the sons of the wicked one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And
the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the messengers. “As the
darnel, then, is gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be at the end of
this age. “The Son of Adam shall send out His messengers, and they shall gather
out of His reign all the stumbling-blocks (sinners), and those doing lawlessness,
and shall throw them into the furnace of fire – there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth. “Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the
reign of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! “Again, the reign
of the heavens is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man (Messiah) having
found it, hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys
that field. “Again, the reign of the heavens is like a man, a merchant, seeking
fine pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all
that he had and bought it. “Again, the reign of the heavens is like a dragnet
that was thrown into the sea and gathered some of every kind, which, when it
was filled, they drew to shore. And they sat down and gathered the good into
containers, but threw the rotten away. “Thus shall it be at the end of the age:
the messengers shall come forth, and separate the wicked out of the midst of
the righteous, and shall throw them into the furnace of fire – there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
The wicked (tares) are burned FIRST – then
the righteous (wheat) are gathered into His “barns.” Note in verse 41 Yahusha says out
of His Kingdom the wicked and lawless will be removed. He does not say out of
the world the wicked and lawless will be removed. Lawlessness is the darnel
(tares). At the end of this age the Messiah is going to send out His messengers
to gather all these stumbling-blocks (sinners), as well as all “those doing
lawlessness,” and throw them into the furnace of fire!
Tares sown among the wheat have to be
separated from the wheat. Tares are weeds that resemble wheat and grows
in-between the wheat. Tares are masked
people--religious leaders and deceitful obstacles that look good--but they are
fakes.
II Corinthians 11:2-4 For I am jealous for you
with a jealousy according to Elohim. For I gave you in marriage to one husband,
to present you as an innocent maiden to Messiah. But I am afraid, lest, as the
serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from
the simplicity that is in Messiah. For, indeed, if he who is coming proclaims
another Yahusha, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different
spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not
accepted, you put up with it well enough!
II Corinthians 11:13-15 For such are false
emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah. And no
wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as a messenger of light! It is not
surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness,
o whose end shall be according to their works!
II Timothy 4:1-5 In the sight of Elohim and the
Master Yahusha Messiah, who shall judge the living and the dead at His
appearing and His reign, I earnestly charge you: Proclaim the Word! Be urgent
in season, out of season. Reprove, warn, appeal, with all patience and
teaching. For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching,
but according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers
tickling the ear, and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth,
and be turned aside to myths. But you be sober in all matters, suffer
hardships, do the work of an evangelist, accomplish your service completely.
Human nature is attracted to lies and
fakery that allows them to think any way they want and live any way they want.
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets have prophesied
falsely, and the priest’s rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it
so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?
Isaiah 30:10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us what is
smooth, prophesy deceits.
Does this not sound like us today?
Thus the warning in II Thessalonians 2:8-12, the great
deception that is coming will be sent by Yahuah (Heavenly Father) to separate
mankind into two camps – the Noah camp, and the world’s camp! Verse 8-12 And then the
lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Master shall consume with the Spirit of
His mouth and bring to naught with the manifestation of His coming. The coming
of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and
signs and wonders of falsehood, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those
perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order for
them to be saved. And for this reason, Elohim sends them a working of delusion,
for them to believe the falsehood, in order that all should be judged who did
not believe the truth, but have delighted in the unrighteousness.
The Flood is an example of tribulation that
accompanies the wrath of Yahuah. Noah and his family were hidden and protected,
but all mankind went through the wrath of Yahuah with different results.
I Thessalonians 5:8-10: “But we who are of the
day should be sober-minded, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and
as a helmet, the expectation of deliverance, because, Elohim (Almighty) did not
appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master Yahusha
Messiah.”
Yahusha (Jesus) is our ark, as we dwell in
the shadow, under the talit, of Yahuah in His Presence!
The “tribulum” (Tribulation) is an ancient
farm instrument which was raked over wheat, the threshing process, to separate
the tares and the chaff from it, so that the wheat is edible and usable.
What is the “chaff?” It is what clings to
the wheat that makes it useless.
It is our sin, our fleshly lusts, our
hidden goals and secret ambitions that are selfish and self-gratifying, like
our holding onto security rather than holding onto Yahuah.
It is our old rebellious nature that wants
to obey Satan’s one command: “Do as thou wilt.”
The chaff represents what holds us back
from being all that we can be as children of Elohim! If it is not removed, we cannot enter His
Kingdom!!!
