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The Harvesting Angels released

In Matthew 13, Jesus told a number of Kingdom parables, giving us the big picture describing the Pentecostal Age between the two comings of Christ.

One of these parables is about the tares that an enemy sowed in the wheat field in Matthew 13:24-30, which is explained and interpreted later in verses 36-43.

The wheat field is the church under the Pentecostal anointing. Jesus sowed good seed (on the day of Pentecost?) but later “his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat” (Matthew 13:25). Tares look like wheat plants until the time of harvest, when it is clear that tares do not bear good fruit. They produce poisonous black seeds that have to be removed from the wheat.

Tares obviously represent church members who are not true believers. In fact, they are downright detrimental to the church, especially because they are not easily recognized for who they are.

The solution is not to try to find all the tares and uproot them but to wait until the time of the harvest, so that they can be exposed by their lack of good fruit. So the parable covers the entire Pentecostal Age, culminating now, because we are living at the end of the age.

Jesus explained the meaning of the parable in Matthew 13:37-43,

³⁷ And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man [Jesus Christ], 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.”

The wheat is in the world, because the children of the kingdom are in the world during the Pentecostal Age. Jesus distinguished them only from “the sons of the evil one.” We know, of course, that if we have been begotten by the Spirit through incorruptible and immortal “seed” (1 Peter 1:23-24, 25), then we are “the good seed.”

Jesus continued,

³⁹ and the enemy who sowed them [the tares] is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.

We are then told that the angels will reap the wheat at the end of the age. But first “they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who commit lawlessness [anomia]. This is how Jesus defined the tares, who are “the sons of the evil one.” In the Hebrew thought patterns, a “son” is sometimes a biological son, but at other times a “son” is one who acts like his “father.” So we read of the sons of Abraham who are not necessarily of his lineage but who have faith. There are also children of wisdom, sons of thunder, and children of the devil.

We understand that the church in the Pentecostal Age resembles “the church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38 KJV). The 40 years under Moses was extended to 40 Jubilee cycles under Christ. The same prophetic pattern of timing is seen in the reign of Saul, who was the classic Old Testament Pentecostal and who reigned 40 years. Note also the 40 years of Eli’s priesthood. In the case of both Saul and Eli, we see clearly the pattern of corruption (tares) in the wheat.

Our main point is found in Matthew 13:41-43,

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 throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

This is a warning to those who consider themselves to be Christians but who “commit lawlessness.” In other words, they despise the law of God, thinking that Jesus abolished it at the cross. But He did not abolish it (Matthew 5:17). In fact, He came to fulfill it. First, He fulfilled it by following everything that the law commanded. (In other words, He was sinless.) Second, because the law is prophetic, He fulfilled all of its prophecies, such as the sacrifices.

Just because Jesus kept the law perfectly does not mean we are now free to cast aside the law. No, we are to imitate Him, allowing the life of Christ to shine forth in us in all that we do. It is strange that so many tend to think that because Jesus fulfilled the law that we are now free to be lawless. Such teaching comes from the tares that the enemy sowed.

Such lawless believers will be thrown “into the furnace of fire.” So also, Paul says that they will be “saved, yet so as through fire” (1 Corinthians 3:15). It is fortunate indeed that God’s lawful justice does not include torturing people in fire forever. Even so, lawless believers will be judged at the great White Throne before they are granted immortal life.

See The Purpose of Resurrection.

By contrast, the true sons of the Kingdom will receive their reward (immortality) at the first resurrection at the end of the Pentecostal Age. This will be a thousand years before the great White Throne judgment. As potential overcomers, we look forward to the first resurrection and to the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles, where we will be changed into the image of the glorified Son. “Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun,” Jesus said. He compared it to His own experience in the Mount of Transfiguration, where “His face shone like the sun” (Matthew 17:2).

Our current revelation says that we are now completing the Year of Provision and are now entering the next prophetic year (2024) called the Year of the Harvesting Angels. Each prophetic year ends on the 8^th day of the feast of Tabernacles, which this year is October 7, 2023.

The coming year should prove to be quite interesting. It suggests that the evil ones will be exposed and uprooted by the reapers in preparation for the ingathering of the wheat. Yesterday we prayed to release those angels into the earth to do their work.