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“Wheat and tares are believers and unbelievers @ Judgement. Read Revelation....Goats and sheep...as well as others.”

The judgment happened at the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, while some of Christ’s disciples (His original 12) still lived. Matthew 16:27-28. Revelation 1-7 is about the tribulation/persecution of the church and Christ’s messengers *the apostles) pre-70 AD. Chapters 8-20 portray the soon-to-come judgment of Jerusalem and the destruction of the city and its temple. Chapters 20-21 portray the full implementation of God’s grace in earth via the church, the “New Jerusalem.”

Revelation is a story of two women: the idolatrous wife (apostate Israel) and the faithful bride (the church, believing Jews and Gentiles). The wheat and tares are Jews who believed Christ’s message (the wheat) and who fled the coming judgment upon Jerusalem and those who didn’t believe in Christ (tares) and who were destroyed by both the civil war that engulfed the city and the Romans who besieged it and tore it down to the ground.

All the prophecies of the New Testament not fulfilled by the cross were fulfilled less than 40 years later, while the generation He foretold would see these things still lived.

All this other stuff about people flying off into space is a distraction that keeps the church from changing the world for the better.

This world is what people make it. If you don’t want to see it go to hell, get your eyes off the sky and your head out of the clouds. That’s the message to the men of Galilee from the angels the day Christ ascended, and it’s right there in Acts 1, the very first chapter of the book that describes how they began to do just that.