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"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed," Matthew 13:24.

Nobody understood Jesus' parable about the sky kingdom. So, privately, Jesus explained. The farmer was Jesus himself. The farm was the whole world. The good seed was people belonging to the sky kingdom. The weeds were people belonging to the enemy, the Evil One. So the sky kingdom consisted of Jesus sending out his own kingdom people into the world. But the Evil One also sent his own people into the world. (So this is where it gets weird.) Both the sky kingdom people and the Evil One people mix in the world. Now it stays like this until the harvest, the end of the age, of earth as we know it. Then, not a moment earlier, Jesus will send his mighty angels to collect out of the sky kingdom all obstacles and lawbreakers, and throw them into a fiery furnace to burn up. Finally, then, the righteous sky kingdom people will shine like the sun in God's kingdom.

Reminding a brother or sister today, we remember our Lord sent us out into the world to shine God's kingdom into the present darkness. We do not despair of evil, no, not at all! And we give thanks that the Lord controls time and its events. To him glory now and forevermore!