"The parable of the tares of the field, (Matt. xiii. 24-30, 36-43,) is designed to teach us the great doctrine,
"The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." Both the tares and wheat sprang up, and the servants came and inquired, "Sir, didst not thou sow good, seed?"-"from whence then hath it tares?" "An enemy hath done this." "Shall we go and gather up the tares?" "Nay, let both grow together until the harvest," etc. "Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field."
He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the 
world; (kosmos) the globe and its creatures. "The good seed are the children of the kingdom," its heirs. "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; the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it
be at the end of this world. 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: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father."
Now the tares grow together with the wheat in the world, or what is promised to Christ for his kingdom; then the tares will be cast out, and the righteous be glorified in the kingdom of God.
with the preaching of John the Baptist, ---But since then the kingdom of heaven is preached.
---That was the last age, or dispensation, of probationary time. When it ends, the tares and wheat will be separated, and the one be burned up, and the other glorified.
Until that takes place, there can be no such state on earth as that wherein all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest. Then it will be thus; for they shall see, not through a glass darkly, as now, but face to face."
Josiah Litch
