PARABLES OF THE KING

              

                          Matthew 13

THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN PROCLAIMED AS “AT HAND”

DESIGNED FOR MESSIAH TO RULE FROM THE LAND
WAS STERNLY REJECTED BY RULERS AND PRIEST
ACCUSING THE KING GETTING POWER FROM THE BEAST.

SO MATTHEW BEGINS TO DESCRIBE THE NEW WAY
THE KINGDOM WILL FUNCTION WHILE HE'S GONE AWAY
THROUGH STORIES, HE TELLS OF A MYSTERY ONCE HID
SO THOSE IN HIS ABSENCE COULD SERVE AS HE BIDS.

THE FIRST OF THESE PARABLES JESUS EXPLAINS
TELLS OF A FARMER WHO PLANTED HIS GRAIN
SOME FELL NEAR ROCKS AND ON PATHS HARD AS CLAY
WHILE OTHERS NEAR THORNS COULD NOT LIVE FOR A DAY.

SOMETIMES THE SEED OF THE WORD THAT IS SOWN
FALLS UPON HEARTS THAT ARE HARDER THAN STONE
SOME PLANTS ARE CHOKED BY THE CARES OF THIS LIFE
STRIVING FOR RICHES WHILE LIVING IN STRIFE.

YET SOME OF THE SEEDS FELL ON SOIL PREPARED
YIELDING A HARVEST OF FRUIT TO BE SHARED
SO IS THE ONE THAT YIELDS ALL TO HIS WILL
LIFE IN ABUNDANCE IS FOUND IN HIM STILL.

THE STORY OF WHEAT THAT IS PLANTED WITH TARES
IS GIVEN AS WARNING TO ALL WHO WOULD SHARE
THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL WHERE CHRIST IS RECEIVED
WILL BLOSSOM AND PROSPER FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE.

CHRIST IS THE SOWER WHO PLANTS IN EARTH'S SOD
THE GOOD SEED ARE SONS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
BAD SEEDS ARE THOSE FROM THE KINGDOM BELOW
WHERE SATAN PLANTS WEEDS DESTROYING THE SOUL.

THE HARVEST WILL END AT HIS COMING AGAIN
AND ANGELS WILL GATHER THOSE CALLED BY HIS NAME
THE WHEAT PICTURES THOSE WHO WILL SERVE WITH THE KING
WHILE WEEDS ARE UNGODLY WHO DIE IN THEIR SIN.

THE MUSTERD SEED PLANTED THAT GROWS LIKE A TREE
WITH NESTING BIRDS LIVING WHERE OTHERS CAN SEE
IS GIVEN AS WARNING THAT EVIL LURKS NEAR
WHEN DOCTRINES OF DEMONS ARE TAUGHT WITHOUT FEAR.

THE LITTLE YEAST ADDED TO EACH LOAF OF BREAD
IS PICTURED IN SCRIPTURE AS EVIL INSTEAD
RELIGIOUS CONVICTION ONCE BASED ON GOD'S WORD
IS OFTEN REPLACED BY THE GODS OF THIS WORLD.

THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN LIKE TREASURES OF GOLD
IS WRAPPED UP IN MYSTERY THOUGH SCRIPTURE FORETOLD
THAT HE WHO ONCE PURCHACED THE FIELD BY HIS NAME
VOWED ISRAEL, HIS TREASURE, WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN.

A MERCHANT THEN LOOKED FOR A PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
HE SOLD ALL HE HAD AT A GREAT SACRIFICE
THE PEARL IS THE CHURCH THAT IS BORN FROM THE SEA
AS PROOF TO ALL MEN HIS DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY.

THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN DESCRIBED AS A NET
WITH GOOD FISH AND BAD FISH TOGETHER ARE MET
THE GOSPEL PROCLAIMED TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
WILL HARVEST MEN CHOSEN THROUGH SPIRITUAL BIRTH.

THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF JUDGMENT WILL END
AS THE KING IN A WHITE HORSE BEGINS TO DESCEND
THE GOOD FISH ARE MEN WHO WILL JOIN IN HIS REIGN
AND THE ANGELS WILL BANISH ALL EVIL AS VAIN.