What then is tares? The botanical name for tares is Lolium temulentum and it is typically known as darnel, poison darnel. Some people call it the false wheat because it looks so similar to wheat in appearance and even belongs to the same family of cereals. It has no nutritional relevance for humans. It is classified as weeds,unwanted plant.
Tares causes nausea and drunkenness. It is of no relevance for making food. The name temulentum means drunkenness. Because it make people who eat of it, nauseated and feel like drunk.
In Matt 13 Jesus compares the kingdom of God with wheat and tares. One is useful the other is useless. One is a good seed, the other is a weed. One was planted by the owner of the field, the other by his enemy. Both the wheat and the tares were planted in the same field, the same land.
It is the property of the Lord, he owns them but he didn’t plant tares in there, he only planted good seeds. The wheat was planted first then later the tares. Being planted in the same field means they received the same irrigation, the same rain, the same nutrient but their results were different at the end. Their results were different because they had different nature. The wheat was gathered to be used as food, the tares were uprooted to be burnt.
Wheat is processed into flour to make bread. Jesus who is the bread of life is the prototype of the true wheat. It is from wheat that we make bread, only wheat can produce life.
It is only ‘wheat’ believers that can be converted into bread that gives life. It is only those who are planted by the Lord himself that can be made into flour to produce bread that gives life. Those born of God are the wheat, Peter was called wheat by the Lord(Luke 22:31)
In order for the wheat to become bread it has to be beaten, it has to be threshed and milled into flour. In the same way, we as believers, need the processing of the Holy Spirit in order for us to become bread to feed people.
30so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat. 32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”…Luke 22:31
Amos 9:9
"For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
