Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares
among the wheat, and went his way. But when the
blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared
the tares also. So the servants of the householder
came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow
good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. 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 also 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 first the
tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather
the wheat into my barn."
No doubt many have thought this parable of our Lord
referred to the assembling in one place of the first ripe
fruit. The writer does not hold that opinion. Let us
consider the tares for a moment.
Are they already gathered
into bundles? Most assuredly they are. It is not
mecessary to point out these bundles (organizations) by
name, as they are known toall Esoteric people. And
further we know these bundles are scattered, in concrete
groups over the entire world, and that they are now in
the burning process. If it be a fact, then, that the
tares are gathered into bundles, the wheat must likewise
be harvested. There is no escape from that proposition
It wnli be ezsier to challenge a proposition of Euclid.
The first four verses of the seventh chapter of Revelation
contain this language: "And after these things I saw
four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,
holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should
not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
And I saw another angel ascending from the East, having
the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud