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In prophetically describing what His church would look like right up to His coming for it at the rapture, Jesus
said it would contain a mixture such as described in these two parables:

THE WISE THE WHEAT
AND AND

FOOLISH VIRGINS THE TARES
Matt. 25:1-13 Matt. 13:24-30

"THEN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SHALL BE LIKENED TO “ANOTHER PARABLE HE PUT FORTH TO
TEN VIRGINS WHO TOOK THEIR LAMPS AND WENT OUT TO THEM, SAYING: "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
MEET THE BRIDEGROOM. NOW FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE, IS LIKE A MAN WHO SOWED GOOD SEED IN

AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH. THOSE WHO WERE FOOLISH HIS FIELD; BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS
TOOK THEIR LAMPS AND TOOK NO OIL WITH THEM, BUT ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG
THE WISE TOOK OIL IN THEIR VESSELS WITH THEIR LAMPS. THE WHEAT AND WENT HIS WAY. BUT WHEN
BUT WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM WAS DELAYED, THEY ALL THE GRAIN HAD SPROUTED AND PRODUCED
SLUMBERED AND SLEPT. "AND AT MIDNIGHT A CRY WAS A CROP, THEN THE TARES ALSO APPEARED.
HEARD: 'BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM IS COMING; GO OUT SO THE SERVANTS OF THE OWNER CAME
AND SAID TO HIM, 'SIR, DID YOU NOT SOW
TO MEET HIM!' THEN ALL THOSE VIRGINS AROSE AND GOOD SEED IN YOUR FIELD? HOW THEN
TRIMMED THEIR LAMPS. AND THE FOOLISH SAID TO THE DOES IT HAVE TARES?' HE SAID TO THEM,
WISE, 'GIVE US SOME OF YOUR OIL, FOR OUR LAMPS ARE 'AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS.' THE SERVANTS
GOING OUT.' BUT THE WISE ANSWERED, SAYING, 'NO, LEST SAID TO HIM, 'DO YOU WANT US THEN TO
THERE SHOULD NOT BE ENOUGH FOR US AND YOU; BUT GO AND GATHER THEM UP?' BUT HE SAID,

GO RATHER TO THOSE WHO SELL, AND BUY FOR 'NO, LEST WHILE YOU GATHER UP THE
YOURSELVES.' AND WHILE THEY WENT TO BUY, THE TARES YOU ALSO UPROOT THE WHEAT WITH
BRIDEGROOM CAME, AND THOSE WHO WERE READY WENT
IN WITH HIM TO THE WEDDING; AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT. THEM. LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL
THE HARVEST, AND AT THE TIME OF
"AFTERWARD THE OTHER VIRGINS CAME ALSO,
SAYING,'LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US!' BUT HE ANSWERED HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS,
AND SAID, 'ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, I DO NOT KNOW "FIRST GATHER TOGETHER THE TARES
YOU.' "WATCH THEREFORE, FOR YOU KNOW NEITHER THE AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN

DAY NOR THE HOUR IN WHICH THE SON OF MAN IS THEM, BUT GATHER THE WHEAT
COMING.” INTO MY BARN."'"

In the parable of the wise and foolish In the parable of the wheat and the tares,
virgins, Jesus describes the Kingdom Jesus describes the Kingdom of Heaven
of Heaven as consisting of ten virgins. as consisting of good seed which He
Half of them were wise and the other planted (wheat) and the counterfeit seed
half were foolish. When Jesus came the devil planted within the kingdom of
as a “thief in the night”, He took the God on the earth. Jesus said they would
wise virgins in with Him, but left the grow up together until He sends forth His
foolish ones behind for the world that angels to “gather out of His Kingdom all
they loved. This is how Jesus depicts things that offend and those who practice
that the church age will end. As much lawlessness” (vs. 41). Not everything (or
as half of the professing Christians on person) that comes in the name of the
earth will be left behind due to their Lord is from God. Some, as Satan’s
foolish (rebellious) behavior. Get used emissaries, are disguised as wheat
to the mixture within the church. It will (Christians). Get used to the mixture within
not go away prior to His coming, and the church. It will not go away, and neither
neither should you because of it! should you because of it!

I have seen and heard of so many of God’s saints sitting at home in disgust because of what they have seen in
the churches. In reality, they have seen exactly what Jesus prophetically said they would, a church that would
continue to be comprised of wise and foolish virgins right up until the coming of Christ at the rapture. They have
seen a church comprised of wheat and tares, true and false believers. A church with people in it who actually
have been planted by Satan to bring reproach upon the name of Christ through division and strife, and why so?
Because Satan knows very well the principle that:

“EVERY KINGDOM DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF IS BROUGHT TO DESOLATION,
AND EVERY CITY OR HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF WILL NOT STAND”
Matt. 12:25

Should the “wise wheat” bail out of the church because of the presence of the foolish and the tares?