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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
...both sides are working with this [sifting]strategy, almost like a spy vs spy episode. And then the fish try to sneak into the kingdom net, but are rejected by the angels.
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The "de-leavening" process may even extend even beyond the reaping angels referred to in Matt. 13:39, who knows?
There is a scene at "the great wedding feast" in Matthew 22:
1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
2
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
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8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those
servants [i.e. the reaping angels in Matt 13:39] went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 And
when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12 And
he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then
said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
As a believer, and ostensible disciple of Jesus, I find such words to be quite sobering.
On a related note, I thought for years that the epistle of Jude and 2 Peter chapter 2 were composed by raving paranoiacs.
"filthy dreamers...waterless clouds feasting among you...wandering stars...", indeed! Don't these guys realize this is the church!?!? Nothing but lovers of Jesus here!
Today, I am like, Wow. Too heavy.