What’s Going On, Wheat, Tares

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A distinct shift in tone from my more usual posts. What is going on with the world in this crazy time?  Why for instance is much of Australia a crazy police state? No one with any intellectual or any kind of integrity can treat what is happening there as anything other than something deeply sinister. Why is the media so intertwined in it all? Why is there such a push towards state tyranny on a global scale? What is the Great Reset or the New World Order about? What unites these people working in tandem on these fronts? Well it’s obviously a total insult to the intelligence to take it at face value, but even with all the duplicity and bullshit, we still have to go well beyond simply secular issues of power and control. It’s all too deep and coordinated to simply be explained within those confines. Some people really love power, but this is on all on much too big a scale. And so I think this parable below from the Gospel of Matthew is very much at the heart of the times: 

Just to begin with a relevant definition: Tares [N] [S]

the bearded darnel, mentioned only in  Matthew 13:25-30 . It is a species of rye-grass, the seeds of which are a strong soporific poison. It bears the closest resemblance to wheat till the ear appears, and only then the difference is discovered. 

I’d like to draw specific attention to that phrase, “strong, soporific poison.” Think of “official” mainstream culture - its news outlets and entertainments. What an apt phrase.

 The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

37 He said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!