Matthew 13:39

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Summary

Matthew 13:39

The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Enemy

Harvest

Reapers

General references

Matthew 25:2

Bible References

Enemy

But while his people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat and went away.

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth, and wipe out by the appearance of his coming,

Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it has been granted to him to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword and [yet] lived.

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs before him, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.

And he seized the dragon--the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan--and bound him [for] a thousand years,

Harvest

Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous

And [as] he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these [things] happen, and what [will be] the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"

Send forth [the] sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for [the] winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil [is] great!

And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, "Send out your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe!"

Reapers

Now when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

A stream of fire issued forth and flowed {from his presence}; thousands [upon] thousands served him and ten thousand [upon] ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and [the] books were opened.

and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,

And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these [people], saying, "Behold, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy ones

General references

Now five of them were foolish and five [were] wise.