What is the meaning of Matthew 13 36 43?
God’s kingdom will be established for a time in this world at the end of the age. The third element Jesus described was the good seed. In the parable the good seed eventually grew into wheat, which was the crop that the sower wished to produce. Jesus explained that the good seed symbolized the sons of the kingdom.
“Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He replied, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world; and the good seed — these are the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all who cause sin and those guilty of lawlessness. They will throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom. Let anyone who has ears listen.”
“The harvest is the end of the age”
Matthew 13:36-43
Jesus interprets the parable of the Wheat and Weeds, astrological and cosmological point of view.
In many references in the Bible we can see how passages point not only to a literal interpretation of events, pertaining to the lives of the characters within, but these events also lead us into a viewpoint which is deeply rooted in cosmological and astrological understanding.
We need only go to the story of the three wise men, and how they follow a star to find Jesus to see this.
“saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.””
Matthew 2:2
While Jesus proclaims that he is the bright Morning Star in Revelation 22:16.
““I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and descendant of David, the bright morning star.””
Revelation 22:16
Or how it is noted how he is coming in the clouds in Revelation 1:7, alluding to Jesus relationship with the cosmos and the unfolding of Gods kingdom.
“Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So it is to be. Amen.”
Revelation 1:7
While reflecting upon the opening passage above, in Mathew’s Gospel Reading, we may ponder as to what Jesus means when he says “the Harvest is the end of the age”.
Is Jesus also alluding to events pertaining to cosmological conjunctions, within the transit of our Galaxy.
It is worth mentioning how several faiths, spiritual adherents and ancient cultures maintain this idea, that the cosmos has an influence upon us, influencing such parts as our dreams etc.
Such ancient cultures include Ancient American civilisations, such as Mayans, Aztecs etc, to ancient Egyptians, Hindu and Buddhist groups also.
But this idea is also reflected within Roman and Greek mythology, how mankind inclines or declines spiritually depending upon the age we live in.
The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Golden Age
Both Hesiod and Ovid offered accounts of the successive ages of humanity, which tend to progress from an original, long-gone age in which humans enjoyed a nearly divine existence to the current age of the writer, in which humans are beset by innumerable pains and evils. In the two accounts that survive from Ancient Greece and Rome, this degradation of the human condition over time is indicated symbolically with metals of successively decreasing value (but increasing hardness).
The Greek poet Hesiod (between 750 and 650 BC), in his poem Works and Days (lines 109–201). His list is:
• Golden Age – The Golden Age is the only age that falls within the rule of Cronus. Created by the immortals who live on Olympus, these humans were said to live among the gods and freely mingled with them. Peace and harmony prevailed during this age. Humans did not have to work to feed themselves, for the earth provided food in abundance. They lived to very old age but with a youthful appearance and eventually died peacefully. Their spirits live on as “guardians”. Plato in Cratylus (397e) recounts the golden race of men who came first. He clarifies that Hesiod did not mean men literally made of gold, but good and noble. He describes these men as daemons upon the earth. Since δαίμονες (daimones) is derived from δαήμονες (daēmones, meaning knowing or wise), they are beneficent, preventing ills, and guardians of mortals.
Could we Postulate the idea that Jesus is talking about this Greek age of Man and its subsequent interpretation when he explains this parable in Mathew 13 and the end of the age.
The Ages of Man within the Greek pantheon, lead to what early writers called a period of expansion they called the Hellenistic era, interesting in some versions of the Bible it reads in Daniel 10 “The History of the Hellenistic Wars or the Vision of the Ram and Goat”.
While the prophet Daniel maintains the idea throughout his prophecies how four beasts will rise consequatively, like four kingdoms, perhaps influenced by four ages.
The book of Maccabees, which is only included in Catholic versions of the Bible mentions the rise of a Greek general called Alexander the Great and the war between the Jewish kings and priests and the Hellenites.
Where we can see how the Greek poet Hesiot, calls his men of the Golden age “Daemones”, a Greek translation meaning wise or noble.
Noting Daemones linguistic similarity to the word Demons.
The ancient Greek word for Greece was “Hellas”, perhaps leading us to the linguistic origin for the word Hell within the Bible.
Interestingly the Greek and Hebrew alphabets are almost mirror images of one another.
Where one alphabet reads left to right, while the other right to left, also we can see how when numerous letters within both alphabets are said orally, linguistically they sound back to front.
See example below: first three letters of respective alphabets.
Hebrew – aleph, beit, gimel
Greek – alpha, beta, gamma
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