Here is how they harvested, hay in olden times, when they used oxen. It makes us think of a harvest that God’s Word tells us about in Matt. 13:24:30
It is a parable that the Lord Jesus spoke while He was here upon earth, about the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is not heaven, but is the rule of the heavens; and the Lord Jesus used the parable to tell us that this rule is here upon earth.
He likened it to a man that sowed good seed in his field: and while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. When it grew, the tares came up too, and the servants said, “Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them. An enemy hath done this.”
They wanted to gather up the tares, but he told them to wait till harvest, and he said, “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.” Matt. 13:30
Then in verses 37-43 He tells what that means.
“He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kinom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burd in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who path ears to hear, let him hear.”
There is one point we should like to iress upon you, and that is that you must make sure that you are like the wheat. The way you may be sure you are among those likened unto wheat, is by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Those who believe on Him will not be put into the bundles of tares to be burned; for the burning of the tares will be the wrath of God executed on the unbelievers. The Scripture says:
“‘HE THAT BELIEVETH ON THE SON HATH EVERLASTING LIFE: AND HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT THE SON SHALL NOT SEE LIFE: BUT THE WRATH OF GOD ABIDETH ON HIM. John 3:36.
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