The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them
up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the
wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the
time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the
tares and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into
my barn."--Matthew 13:24-30.
[392]Interpreting his own parable, Jesus said that he was the man who
had gown the good seed; that the field is the world; and that the good
seed are the children of the kingdom, and that the tares are the
children of the wicked one; that the enemy who sowed them is the devil;
and that the harvest is the end of the world.--Matthew 13:37-39.
[393]From this statement of the Master it is clearly shown that at the
end of the age or world there must be a harvest; that Jesus Christ must
be present as the Master of that harvest, and that the harvest will
consist of gathering together the true followers of Christ in one body
and of binding together the counterfeit or tare class for destruction.
Stated in other phrase, there will be a gathering of the true vine
class, true Christians, and the harvesting of the vine of the earth;
namely, the nominal Babylonish systems of the world. Since the Master
himself stated that he would come at this time to receive his own, the
truly consecrated Christians, to himself, and that he, as the Master of
the harvest, would direct what should be done, it follows that he must
be present before the beginning of the harvest and during the time of
the harvest.
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