Matthew 13:24-30 English Standard Version

The Parable of the Weeds

²⁴ He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds^{[darnel looks like wheat]} among the wheat and went away. ²⁶ So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. ²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ ²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ ²⁹ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

This is posted after wildfire in order to distinguish the differences between wheat and weeds. The first thing we must address is that the whole world is the Lord’s field. Jesus is the one who planted the good seed to begin the planting of His church.

“While his men were sleeping” is an indication of those given the oversight of His church who did not keep watch to prevent others from preaching another gospel, one not rooted in faith in Christ. Those that sew the darnel seed may call themselves Christian, but they are not of Christ.

What is interesting here is that the Lord is the Lord of change, the Lord of rebirth and if those that are darnel, if they can escape the wildfire, they may be reborn. This is why the Lord told His angels not to weed out the darnel. They may become wheat by the power of God.

Joel 1:19 English Standard Version (ESV) To you, O Lord, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.

This is destructive fire, not light.

John 10:10 English Standard Version (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Consider that the enemy of Christ seeks to destroy what Christ is building. What better way than to devour the pastures where the sheep are found. When a pasture is destroyed sheep wonder away to seek food.

One of the properties of wildfire is to illuminate things in the darkness. Its power to show anything is held in the destructive nature of burning the trees of the field. Wildfire needs fuel.

Psalm 1:3 English Standard Version (ESV) He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Mankind are those trees. When planted away from the source of life giving water^{[the Holy Spirit]} then it becomes dry and kindle to be added to the wildfire to be burnt.

This phenomenon has been seen as church growth and misleads those who are not led by God. They will try and duplicate the events but God is not their author and there is vanity in that faith, false faith.

Ecclesiastes 1:13-15 English Standard Version

¹³ And I applied my heart^[soul] to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. ¹⁴ I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity^{[mere breath]} and a striving after wind.^{[to be fed]}

¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Staring lovingly into the flames and warming our flesh is not spiritual.

The lost that die in wildfire will not be counted among the bride.