The Separation of the Rebellious from among the Righteous.
Mat 13:47 "Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a draw-net let down into the sea, which encloses fish of all sorts.
Mat 13:48 When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
Mat 13:49 So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Mat 13:50 and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth."
Mat 13:51 "Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
Introduction
The Great Day of Separation
This parable does not differ in meaning from that of the tares. The gospel is compared to a net dragging along on the bottom of a lake, and collecting all - good and bad. The gospel may be expected to do the same; but in the end of the world, when the net “is drawn in,” the bad will be separated from the good; the one will be cast away, and the other saved. Our Saviour never fails to keep before our minds the great truth that there is to be a day of judgment, and that there will be a separation of the good and the evil. He came to preach salvation; and it is a remarkable fact, also, that the most fearful accounts of hell and of the sufferings of the damned, in the Scriptures, are from his lips. How does this agree with the representations of those who say that all will be saved?Barnes Notes.
Mat 13:47 "Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a draw-net let down into the sea, which encloses fish of all sorts.
Notes
the Kingdom of the Heavens
Its use by Jesus is by far its most interesting aspect; for, in the Synoptists, at least, it is His watchword, or a comprehensive term for the whole of His teaching. Of this the ordinary reader of Scripture may hardly be aware, but it becomes evident and significant to the student. Thus, in Mat_4:23, the commencement of the ministry is described in these words, “And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people”; and, somewhat later, in Luk_8:1, the expansion of His activity is described in the following terms, “And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve.” When the Twelve are sent forth by themselves, the purpose of their mission is, in Luk_9:2, given in these words, “And he sent them forth to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.” In Mat_13:11, the parables, which formed so large and prominent a portion of His teaching, are denominated collectively “the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven”; and it will be remembered how many of these commence with the phrase, “The kingdom of heaven is like.” Barnes
Heavens Plural 2) the region above the sidereal heavens, the seat of order of things eternal and consummately perfect where God dwells and other heavenly beings. Thayer’s Definition Sidereal :;of the stars Wikipedia
like a draw-net let down into the sea,
A net (sagēnēi). Drag-net. Latin, sagena, English, seine. The ends were stretched out and drawn together. Only example of the word in the N.T. Just as the field is the world, so the drag-net catches all the fish that are in the sea. The separation comes afterwards. RWP
Mat 13:48 When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
Notes
The Separation of the GOOD FISH and the WORTHLESS
The drawnet
1. We of this generation, a miscellaneous multitude of old and young, good and evil, move about at liberty in the wide expanse of life, as fishes move about in the deep broad sea; but certain mysterious, invisible lines, have been let down into the water, and are silently, slowly creeping near, and winding round us.
2. Good and bad alike are drawn in company towards the shore, but the good and bad are separated when they reach it. (W. Arnot.)
Separating good and bad
There is a machine in the Bank of England which receives sovereigns, as a mill receives grain, for the purpose of determining wholesale whether all are of full weight. As they pass through, the machinery, by unerring laws, throws all that axe light to one side, and all that are of full weight to another. That process is a silent but solemn parable for me. Founded as it is upon the laws of nature, it affords the most vivid similitude of the certainty which characterizes the judgment of the great day. (W. Arnot.)
Mat 13:49 So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Notes
- the When is the The Great Day of Separation - at the close of the Age
- the Agents of this Separation -- The Angels
- Their Task - to separate the wicked from among the righteous
Mat 13:50 and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth."
Notes:
- The End for the Wicked - thrown into the fiery furnace
- Results : Weeping aloud and gnashing of teeth
Mat 13:51 "Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
understood G4920 συνίημι suniēmi Thayer Definition:
1) to set or bring together
1a) in a hostile sense, of combatants
2) to put (as it were) the perception with the thing perceived
2a) to set or join together in the mind
2a1) i.e. to understand: the man of understanding
2a2) idiom for: a good and upright man (having the knowledge of those things which pertain to salvation)
There is a Day of Judgement coming soon. The Net is drawing in. Are you ready and do you understand that now is the day of Salvation. Forgiveness and Mercy are offered now. The Rebellious and the disobedient with be separated and thrown into the fiery furnace according to Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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