Part 2 - The Parables Of The Kingdom: The Wheat & The Tares

THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 1 ✦ ✦ ✦ A New Teaching Series THE PARABLES AND THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL Proving the Singular Mission of YAHSHUA Through Every Parable He Taught ✦ ✦ ✦ PART TWO THE WHEAT THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 2 AND THE TARES Judgment Begins in the House of the Elohim Sons Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43 Rev. John Shane Vaughn First Harvest Ministries International THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 3 THE TEXT BEFORE US Matthew 13:24–25 “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” Matthew 13:30 “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares... but gather the wheat into my barn.” And then YAHSHUA does something with this parable that He did with almost no other — He explains it Himself. Matthew 13:37–39 “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.” THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 4 Seven keys handed to us directly from the lips of the King. And every one of those keys unlocks a door the modern church has nailed shut. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 5 I. THE FIELD IS THE KOSMOS When YAHSHUA said “the field is the world,” the Greek word He used was kosmos — the entire ordered system of the inhabited earth. This was not a parable about a small village. This was not a parable about one synagogue in Galilee. This was not even a parable about Judah. The field is the kosmos. The whole world. Every nation. Every tribe. Every tongue. And into that worldwide field, two seeds have been planted by two different sowers. The First Sower — The Son of Man The good seed, YAHSHUA said, are the children of the Kingdom. • The Elohim sons of YAHWEH. • Those who received the Kingdom message and let it take root in their spirit-mind. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 6 • The Israel of YAHWEH — the elect — predestined from the foundations of the earth. The Second Sower — The Adversary The tares, YAHSHUA said, are the children of the wicked one. • The children of the Beast. • Those who heard the Kingdom message but never comprehended it internally. • Those who still bear the image of the Beast. Two seeds. Two sowers. One field. Growing together — until the harvest. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 7 II. THE GOOD SEED EXISTED BEFORE THE FIELD WAS PLANTED Now Listen to This Carefully — If the Sower is the Son of Man, and the Son of Man came in the first century, then the Kingdom message was not understood in the earth until He came to sow it. Even the prophets did not understand their own prophecies. Daniel 12:9 “Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” 1 Peter 1:10–11 “Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently... searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify...” They prophesied things they could not interpret. They wrote what they did not comprehend. The seed was not yet sown — it was being prepared in the granary of heaven. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 8 And the Good Seed Itself Was Pre-Existent. The good seed are the Israel of YAHWEH — the elect, predestined from before the foundations of the earth. Ephesians 1:4 “He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” The seed was always His. The field was always His. The harvest was always appointed. But the seed was not sown into the kosmos until the Son of Man Himself walked into the field. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 9 III. SOMETHING WE MUST SEE IN VERSE 41 Matthew 13:41 “The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of HIS KINGDOM all things that offend, and them which do iniquity.” STOP. READ THAT AGAIN. He did not say they would gather out of the world all things that offend. He did not say they would gather out of the kosmos all things that offend. He said they would gather them out of HIS KINGDOM. The cleansing is not in the world. The cleansing is in the Kingdom message. This Is the Detail Every Modern Preacher Misses. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 10 YAHSHUA is not sending angels at the end of the age to clean up the bars and the brothels and the casinos. He is sending messengers to clean up the so-called Kingdom people. He is sending them to remove the ones who sit in the congregation of the sons of the Kingdom but do not belong there. This clean-up is not for the world. Judgment begins in the House of the Elohim Sons. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 11 IV. JUDGMENT BEGINS AT THE HOUSE OF EL 1 Peter 4:17 “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” Peter said it plainly. The first place YAHWEH cleans is His own house. The first to be examined are the ones who claim His name. The first to be sifted are the ones who sit in His congregation. The Order of the Cleansing — • First — the House of EL is purified. • Then — the Wheat is gathered into the barn. • Then — the Kingdom Sons are made manifest in glory. • Last — the rest of the field is judged at the White Throne. The Kingdom Sons will be made clean LONG BEFORE the world is made clean. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 12 The rest of the field — the kosmos at large — does not get cleansed until the Last Great Day — the White Throne Judgment. Revelation 20:11–12 “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it... and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened...” But long before that final day — right now, in this hour, in this generation — the Lord of the harvest is sending messengers into the field of so-called Kingdom people to do a separation work. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 13 V. WHO GETS PLUCKED UP Matthew 13:41–42 “The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire...” All Who Break the Commandments Will Be Plucked Up. The phrase “them which do iniquity” in the Greek is tous poiountas tēn anomian — literally the ones doing the lawlessness. Anomia means without Torah — without the Law of the Kingdom. All who break the commandments will be plucked up and displaced by these end-time messengers. All Who Lack a True Understanding of the Government Will Be Removed. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 14 This is not just behavioral cleansing. This is doctrinal cleansing. • Those who reject Torah. • Those who deny the coming Kingdom government. • Those who teach a tradition-based gospel. • Those who claim Kingdom citizenship without Kingdom allegiance. They will be removed from the presence of the Kingdom Sons. Not removed from earth. Not yet. They will be removed from the company of the wheat. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 15 VI. THE WHEAT GATHERED INTO THE BARN Matthew 13:30 “Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” And Now the Sweetness of This Parable Begins to Shine. Those who understand the Kingdom message — those whose spirit-mind has received the seed and let it take root — Will be brought into close proximity with one another into the Barn. Look at what we are seeing right now in this scattered remnant. • Saints who never knew each other are finding each other. • Believers separated by oceans are recognizing the same voice. • Strangers from twenty different denominational backgrounds are landing on the same Sabbath, the same feasts, the same Sacred Names, the same Two-House gospel. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 16 THAT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT. That is the gathering. That is the binding of the wheat into bundles for the barn. We will be gathered FIRST — before the wicked are burned. This overturns nearly every popular eschatology in the modern church. The dispensationalist says the wicked are removed first and the saints are left. YAHSHUA said the opposite. Matthew 13:30 “Gather ye together FIRST the tares... but gather the wheat into my barn.” The tares are bound first. The wheat is then gathered into the barn. The wicked among the Kingdom people are removed first. The faithful are then drawn together. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 17 THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 18 VII. WHEN DOES THIS CLEANSING TAKE PLACE? Someone Will Eventually Ask the Question — “How could the church be so wrong all these years and no one noticed?” And the answer is plain: It was not yet time for the cleansing of the Kingdom. The wheat and the tares were ordered to grow together until the harvest. Not because the Sower did not see the difference — He saw it from day one — but because the harvest had its appointed season. Matthew 13:29–30 “Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest.” For two thousand years the Kingdom message has lain partially obscured under denominations, traditions, councils, creeds, and corruptions. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 19 • The Sabbath was traded for Sunday — and no one noticed. • The feasts were traded for pagan holidays — and no one noticed. • YAHWEH and YAHSHUA were traded for Lord and Jesus — and no one noticed. • Torah was traded for grace-without-obedience — and no one noticed. • The Kingdom was traded for heaven — and no one noticed. It was not yet time for the cleansing of the Kingdom. But now — in this generation — the harvest has begun. The eyes are opening. The Sacred Names are returning. The feasts are being restored. The Sabbath is being remembered. Torah is being recovered. The Two-House gospel is being preached. Beloved, you are not living through a revival. You are living through a harvest. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 20 VIII. NOTICE WHAT IS UNCLEAN This Is the Hardest Word in This Parable for the Modern Christian to Hear. What is being cleansed at the harvest is not the world. What is being cleansed is the Kingdom of God on earth. Which means YAHSHUA Himself is calling the present condition of the Kingdom on earth — unclean. THE CLEANSING IS FOR US FIRST. The House of EL is in a state of defilement with Babylon. • Babylonian doctrine in our pulpits. • Babylonian holidays on our calendars. • Babylonian names on our lips. • Babylonian theology in our hearts. • Babylonian merchants in our temples. Zechariah 14:21 THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 21 “And in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.” The Amplified Bible reads it plain: “no more a Canaanite — that is, any godless or spiritually unclean person, whether Jew or Gentile — in the house of the Lord of hosts.” There can be no more Canaanites in the House of EL. No more tares. No more merchants. No more Babylon. And before that day arrives — before every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness unto YAHWEH — there must come a separation. A cleansing. A binding of the tares and a gathering of the wheat. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 22 IX. THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH Matthew 13:43 “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Notice the Word THEN. Then — after the cleansing. Then — after the tares are bound. Then — after the wheat is gathered into the barn. Then — after the lawless are plucked from the presence of the Kingdom Sons. Then — and only then — shall the righteous shine forth as the sun. We do not shine while we are mixed with tares. We do not shine while Babylon is in our temple. We do not shine while we still bear the image of the Beast in our worship. We shine when the cleansing is complete. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 23 And the cleansing is happening right now. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 24 REFLECTION AT THE PULPIT Three Questions for Every Hearer Tonight: 1. If the cleansing begins inside the House of EL — am I prepared to be examined first, before any judgment ever falls on the world outside? 2. What Babylonian doctrine, name, calendar, or tradition still sits in my own pot — and is YAHWEH calling me to remove it before the messengers do? 3. Have I confused the gathering of the saints with mere church attendance — or am I recognizing the wheat being bound for the barn around me right now? THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 25 CLOSING WORD This parable was never about good people and bad people in the world. This parable was about the cleansing of the Kingdom. The field is the kosmos. The good seed is the elect of YAHWEH — predestined before the foundation of the world. The tares are the children of the Beast — sown into the same congregation, sitting in the same pews, carrying the same Bibles, but bearing a different image. And in the harvest — in this hour — the Son of Man is sending His messengers to make a separation in the House of EL. Judgment begins at the House of EL. The wheat is gathered first. Then the righteous shine forth as the sun. THE WHEAT AND THE TARES — Part Two: The Parables and the Lost Tribes of Israel Rev. John Shane Vaughn | First Harvest Ministries International | Page 26 Next in the Series — Part Three: The Mustard Seed and the Leaven — and we will see how the Kingdom government grows from the smallest beginning into the rule that fills the entire earth. ✦ ✦ ✦ Rev. John Shane Vaughn First Harvest Ministries International The Parables and the Lost Tribes — Part Two: The Wheat and the Tares