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THE TARES AND WHEAT. 45

are expressly taught that the tares and the wheat
grow together until the end (of this age) ; that evil men
and seducers will wax worse and worse; that as it was in
the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be at the coming
of the Son of Man^ And such is the character and num-
ber of the tares that their destruction, before the harvest,
would endanger the children of the kingdom. Mat. 13:29.
This absolutely precludes the idea of a millennial reign
of righteousness in this dispensation.
From the time that the first Adam surrendered the king-
dom to Satan, the effort to re-establish it with man has
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been a continual failure, though it was given to Noah,
10. When be shall come to be Luke 17 :26. And as it was in
glorified in bis saints, and to be the days of Noe, so shall it be
marvelled at in all them that also in the days of the Son of
man.
believed (because our testimony
unto you was believed) in that
27. They did eat, they drank,
day. they married wives, they were
(7) Mat 13 :29. But he said, given in marriage, until the day
lest while ye gather up that Noe entered into the
Nay ; ark,
the tares, ye root up also the and the flood came, and de-
wheat with them. stroyed them all.
30. Let both grow together 28. Likewise also as It was in
until the harvest : and in the the days of Lot; they did eat,
time of harvest I will say to they drank, they bought, they
the reapers, Gather ye together sold, they planted, they builded;
first the tares, and bind them in
29. But the same day that Lot
bundles to burn them : but went out of Sodom rained
gather the wheat into my barn. it
fire and brimstone from heaven,
2 Pet. 3:3. Knowing this first, and destroyed them all.
that there shall come in the last
30. Even thus shall it be in
days scoffers, walking after their the day when the Son of man
own lusts,
is revealed.
4. And saying, Where Is the
Also 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Mat 24:
promise of his coming? for since
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the fathers fell asleep, all things
(8) Gen. 9:1. And God
continue as they were from the
blessed Noah ana his sons, and
beginning of the creation.
said unto them, Be fruitful, and
1 Tim. 4:1. Now the Spirit multiply, and the
speaketh expressly, that in the earth. replenish
latter times some shall depart
2. And the fear of you and the
from the faith, giving heed to
dread of you shall be upon every
seducing spirits, and doctrines of
beast of the and upon
devils. earth,
every fowl of the air, upon all
2 Tim. 3:13. But evil men that moveth upon the earth and
and seducers shall wax worse upon all the fishes of the sea ;
and worse, deceiving, and being hand
into your are they de-
deceived. livered.