In the Parable of the Wheat and Tares it is very important to note the Kingdom of Heaven is like “a man who sowed good seed in his field.” The church is the kingdom of Christ. The church is like Christ, the man who sowed the good seed. (Matthew 13:24) The kingdom of Christ is not likened unto the field or the enemy that sowed the tares.

Jesus’ explanation of the Parable of the weeds is explained in Matthew 13:36-43. Jesus is the standard by which all Christians must pattern their lives. We as the church should always strive to reach souls and help them to become “sons of the kingdom.” The field is the world. It is not the church. The good seed is the sons of the kingdom; Christians. The weeds are the Sons of the evil one; the devil. It is like cheat – a weed that resembles wheat but is not. The enemy who sows the weeds is the devil, “The father of all lies” (John 8:42-45). The harvest is the end of the age; the Judgment day when Jesus comes again. The harvesters are angels. We read about God’s ministers or workers in Matthew 25:31-34.

The word kingdom in Matthew 13:41 is the “heaven and earth” that Christ has been given authority over (Matthew 28:18-20). In other words the whole inhabited earth is the kingdom of Christ in the broad sense. God says the harvest will come at the end when Jesus comes again to judge us (2 Corinthians 5:10).

It is obvious Jesus says we are the good seed that brings forth desirable fruit or we are the weed seed that brings forth no fruit. When Jesus comes again we will be harvested and sent to heaven if we are the good seed and we will be burned in hell’s fire if we are the weeds sowed by Satan and his followers. He wants all mankind to repent and obey and live eternally with him in heaven (2 Peter 3:9).