Matthew 13:39, 41, 49 ... and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. ...
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. ...
This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous
We learn in this parable that the angels will be the harvesters of people at the end of the age. Sent by Christ they will weed out everything that causes sin and all who do evil. .. They will separate the righteous from the wicked at the end.
Spurgeon says on these verses
Now is the time of growing: the
harvest hastens on, and the reapers are already chosen by the great
householder. We may rejoice that angels, and not men, are the reapers.
At what hour the consummation of the age (RV) shall come we do not
know, but it is surely drawing nigh. ... This the Son of man will do with authority; the angels are
simply the executioners of the wrath of the Lamb. ... The separation between “the wicked” and “the just”, who are in the
kingdom, will be at the close of the dispensation. It will be accomplished
by the messengers of God, the appointed angels: it will be done infallibly,
readily, fully, and finally. The doom of the wicked is described in terms
which are terrible to the last degree. ....
Matthew Henry says
The reapers are the angels: they shall be employed, in the great day, in executing Christ’s righteous sentences, both of approbation and condemnation, as ministers of his justice, ch. 25:31. The angels are skillful, strong, and swift, obedient servants to Christ, holy enemies to the wicked, and faithful friends to all the saints, and therefore fit to be thus employed. He that reapeth receiveth wages, and the angels will not be unpaid for their attendance; for he that soweth, and he that reapeth, shall rejoice together (Jn. 4:36 ); that is joy in heaven in the presence of the angels of God.
The angels of heaven shall come forth to do that which the angels of the churches could never do; they shall sever the wicked from among the just; and we need not ask how they will distinguish them when they have both their commission and their instructions from him that knows all men, and particularly knows them that are his, and them that are not, and we may be sure there shall be no mistake or blunder either way.
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