The Parable of The Weeds (Matt. 13:24-30)

The Parable of The Weeds (Matt. 13:24-30)

    

There were two fishermen. Both of them were diligent and did their best to catch many fish. One fisherman's fish were always alive and fresh and sold with high price, but the other fisherman's fish were still alive but not quite active. There were about to die when they were supplied in the fish market. So, the second fisherman could not sell his fish with high price.
The second fisherman asked the first man: "How did you catch such fresh and active fish?"
The first fisherman answered: "I caught fish that were like yours. I did not catch specially fresh and actively moving fish."
The second fisherman asked again: "Then, how come your fish were so actively moving while mine were so kind of dead?"
The first man answered: "I put a bigger fish who can eat fish in the water tank where I preserve fish that I caught. Then, the fish try to escape actively from the big fish. The big fish may eat one fish. But the other fish survive and are still actively moving when they are being sold in the market."
The second fisherman's fish did not have to move in the water tank because there was no predator. Thus, they become more and more inactive and do not look fresh.

Sometimes God allows us to be put in situations of difficulty, hardship, or even in catastrophe. Sometimes we see a person who hates us or gives us hard time.
However, we should complain about this. Because, this may be in God's plan to make us be awake and strengthened.

A man sowed good seed in his field. In his explanation in verse 38, Jesus tells his disciple that the man is no other than Jesus himself, and the field is the world.
But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy, that is, Satan or the Devil, came and sowed weeds among the wheat.
What was Satan's purpose of sowing weeds?
Satan tries to interfere God's plan of salvation of the saints.
Satan wants the servants of the farmer pull up the wheat when they pull up the weeds. By doing that, Satan wants some of God's saints to lose their salvation and thus to trouble God's heart.

The owner knew Satan's plan. So, when his servants asked him whether they should pull up the weeds, he answered them 'no.' Instead, he told them, let them grow together with the wheat until the harvest, that is, the end time.
Then, he will tell the harvesters, that is, his angels, to collect the weeds first and to tie them in bundles to be burned. And then, he will tell them to gather the wheat and bring it into the barn of Heaven.

The weeds are also called tares or darnels. They resemble the wheat in their blade. It is very hard to distinguish between the weeds and the wheat until they bear their heads. However, the heads of the weeds become black and poisonous, and the heads of the wheat become yellow and nutritious and beneficial to people.
Although the owner knew the plan of Satan, he let the weeds grow together with the wheat so that Satan's plan may not be successful.

There may be two kinds of believers: One is the wheat and the other one is the weed.  God allows the weed-kind believers to stay together with the wheat-kind believers for three  purposes:
First of all, as is already explained, He does not want the wheat-kind believers to get heart when His servants pull up the weed-kind believers.
Secondly, by allowing the weed-kind believers, God wants the wheat-kind believers to be hardened and strengthened. The weed-kind believers sometimes try to harm the wheat-kind believers, and the good believers will get God's approval by being hardened.
Thirdly, the weed-kind believers may be changed to the wheat-kind believers when they repent their wrong-doings.