OUR FATHER WHO SEPARATES THE WHEAT FROM THE TARES

Isaiah chapter 56 verse 10 says this;

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.

This verse reads like a rebuke against the watchmen who slept while enemies came into the territory and sowed tares on the land that had been sown with wheat in a parable told by the Lord Jesus in Matthew chapter 13 verses 24 - 25;

Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 

Of the people who were given the responsibility of watching but slept and left the fields  vulnerable, Isaiah chapter 56 verse 11 says this;

They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way,  they seek their own gain.

They are distracted by the pursuits of their own benefit and abandon their charge and great harm is done to the kingdom of God by the implanting of evil seeds among the harvest of righteousness.

However, the Lord is able to redeem his field from the work of the enemy as described in Matthew chapter 13 verses 28 - 30;

He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Amen.

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