You may not have heard of such a thing as you probably only stick within your own sphere of eschatology. Take a course at a Bible college and broaden you scope. What I have been referring to in the kingdom parables is more common teaching than you might imagine. Especially in Messianic groups.
Satan is indeed bound during the millennial reign. But what of the thousands of his cohorts who are also out to cause mischief? They are not bound. Sin eventually permeates the kingdom and when Satan is released at the end of the 1000 years, Revelation 20, there is so much discontent in the kingdom to enable Satan to stir up a revolt. Again, Psalms 2 elaborates on that.
You are imposing you view on the kingdom parables that the Lord returns at the end of them. No verse either states or implies that. In fact, the wheat and tares parable, the servents and the owner are present. The owner is not off in the Bahamas on vacation. So that shows that the owner (Yeshua) is physically present and that implies the millennial kingdom. It substantiates that the focus is the millennial kingdom on earth. In unison with the other kingdom parables.
The problem with seminaries and groups is that they indoctrinate one with their presuppositions, some of which are falsehoods, as no denomination or group has all the truth. One must allow Yah’s word alone to make such discernment. The Messianic groups start with the fallacious presupposition that the Sinai Covenant was not set aside by Christ, but as I stated to you, according to Romans 7:1-4, the body of Christ released both Ephraim and Judah from the previous marriage to be “betrothed” to Christ.
Good; now that we have established that Satan is bound during the
age to come then it must follow that the parables in Matthew 13 cannot be preaching of the
age to come because Satan is free to plant his sons alongside the sons of Yah in the parable of the wheat and tares (Matthew 13:25). Clearly, this means they abide together, insomuch as the parable has them separated only upon the
harvest when the wheat is taken into the barn and the tares are gathered to ultimately be burned. This substantiates the parable is indicative of this age.
You’ve agreed that Satan is bound in Revelation 20, the
age to come, which substantiates he is no longer free to plant his sons alongside the sons of Yah. Moreover, the context affirms the outcomes of the first resurrection, one of which is that the sons of Yah are secure from Satan and his cohorts until the end of the millennium when Satan is allowed to foment insurrection one last time. This agrees perfectly with the prophecy against Gog in Ezekiel 38, which is precisely where John takes us to preach what will happen in Satan’s final insurrection. In Ezekiel, Yah relates that Gog will be mustarded for this insurrection, the correlative of Revelation 20.
After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. (Ezekiel 38:8 ESV)
The many day and the latter years can be none other than the millennium. In Ezekiel, Yah puts words, hooks, in Gog’s mouth.
and say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,'to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. (vs. 11-12)
One must kick against he pricks to deny both John and Ezekiel are relating that the millennium, the
age to come, represents the time of the autumnal harvest, Sukkot, when Israel will dwell safely. Zechariah 14 is also a correlative of the antitype of Sukkot.
And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one. The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses…. Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. (Zechariah 14:9-10, 16-19)
The only viable conclusion is that the harvest in the parable of the wheat and tares is the autumnal one, upon entering the antitypical time of Sukkot, which is substantiated in Ezekiel and Zechariah, nay all of the prophets, as the time Israel dwells safely and Satan in incarcerated and no longer able to plant his sons alongside the sons of Yah. The
harvest in the parable of the wheat and tares is clearly substantiated by the prophets and the Hebraic festivals as the return of the Lord, Yeshua, at the
end of this age.
