Either way the servants (whoever they are) don't have the ability to separate out the tares without losing wheat.
So either this is information instructing human leaders of the church not to attempt it - because they will risk losing wheat - or it is instruction to non-human, non-angel servants not to do it... which I doubt.
You have an inconsistency here. You state that the leaders in the church could be indicated, even though they are referenced as part of the tares or wheat.
But then you say that the servants cannot be angels because they are listed as harvesters. In this case the servants don't even have a separate explanation. So w don't know what they are supposed to be. But the wheat and tares are explained, so should be ruled out as well.
But more importantly, the sons of the kingdom are being viewed in the lens of the story of the parable. It is about a kingdom. A kingdom may have servants and sons, but they servants and sons in a kingdom are not the same.
In fact, the servants appear to not be in the field or connected to it, but outside of it, discussing it, and ready to tend it but are refused. The field is the world. They are outside of the world. Now whether you take this as a different group of unidentified angels. Or whether you take this as other intelligent beings the Lord has created, or however you take it, they are commenting about the wheat and tares, and offering to take action against them, so they are not part of the wheat or the tares. And they are not sons of the kingdom but servants.
The ones in the field, the world, are divided into two groups:
sons of the kingdom/good seed/wheat/righteous shining in the kingdom of their Father
vs.
sons of the evil one, tares/those that practice lawlessness who are removed from the kingdom.
And note, the identification doesn't change through the whole thing. The wheat growing is still the wheat brought into the barns.
The tares growing are still the tares burned.
It is the same scope throughout. it is talking about all the righteous and all the wicked, who live side by side in the world. But at the end the wicked are removed, the righteous are in the kingdom of their Father.
They clearly know that tares exist but nothing in the parable says they are 100% accurate in distinguishing one from the other in every case. We could assume it either way without knowing.
That is not accurate. It says they know the tares and the wheat. They are told to leave them both. You can't say they don't know them if they identify them. And you can't say they are not 100 percent certain if none of the text says that.
But more than that the same wheat is in the barn at the end.
The same tares are burned in the end.
They are the same throughout the entire parable.
When the harvest is produced, the grain produced - then the angels take out the tares.
37 And He said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 38 and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the weeds are the sons of the evil one; 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. 40 So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.
So this is not the harvest --
27 And the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ 28 And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves *said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he *said, ‘No; while you are gathering up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Allow both to grow together until the harvest;
Agreed, not the harvest. But also no confusion about which is which.
The wheat in the beginning are the wheat at the end.
The tares in the beginning are the tares at the end. It is looking at the totality.
They first burn the tares.
vs 39 ... and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. 40 So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Yes, wheat planted, wheat harvested at the end.
Tares sowed by the evil one, tares burned at the end.
The whole time they are in the same field--the world.
Luke 12 labels all who are waiting for the 2nd coming as "servants"
42 And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Agreed, it is its own story, with its own characters. And the context there is a household and all those waiting for the King are servants. But in the parable of the wheat we have a different story with different characters. The sons of the kingdom are identified as the ones inheriting the kingdom in this parable, they are the good seed/wheat/sons of the kingdom/righteous on the kingdom of their Father.
