These are just some
thoughts from the flooded farmland of Iowa..
All of the people
reading the scriptures were more closely connected to the land than we are. The
verses that describe tares(weeds) and the grain speak of a farming practice of
going in to bundle the tares for burning before the harvest. This prevents the
weeds from maturing and developing seeds(problem for next year and years
after) and removes them from the path of the harvesters so they can move rapidly
through the field when the grain has reached optimum ripeness. The
wicked(tares) are gathered together earlier, when the grain is strong enough to
survive the disruption, and burned before the harvest(Resurrection) at the last
trump(calling the harvest workers like a horn). We can no longer even tell the
times and seasons of the food we need to sustain our physical lives, how much
less our spiritual. There is less understanding of the parables Yeshua was
using.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
Pray to be found faithful to
him so that His mark will be on us!! This whole passage is the start of things
with a purifying of the world starting at His House(know ye not that ye are the
temple of the Holy Ghost?)
Ezekiel
9
1: He cried also in mine ears
with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw
near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
2: And,
behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the
north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was
clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and
stood beside the brasen altar.
3: And the glory of the God of Israel
was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house.
And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by
his side;
4: And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the
city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the
midst thereof.
5: And to the others he said in mine hearing,
Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
have ye pity:
6: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little
children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the
mark; and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were
before the house.
7: And he said unto them, Defile the house, and
fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in
the city.
8: And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I
was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9: Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth
not.
10: And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
11: And,
behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported
the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
We are not
appointed unto wrath but will not being taken home in discipline(turned over for
the saving of the soul) appear to an ignorant observer to be "death" though not
forever?
Shalom,
Betty W.