[Shincheonji Online Seminar] Testimony on the Parables of the Secrets of Heaven and Their True Meanings

 [Introductory Lesson 4] The Figurative Seed, Field, Tree, and Bird 
Shincheonji Online Bible Seminar 

⁕Summarize of true meaning of the words

the seed : the word of God

the field : person's heart, the world 

the tree : a person reborn of the seed of the word(the shepherd)

the bird : spirit 

1. The parable of seed = the word of God 

Matthew 13:24-30
24 Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 
25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 
26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. 
27 "The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?'
28 "'An enemy did this, 'he relied. "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'
29 " 'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.' "

➤ We must know the true meaning of the parable of heaven 

Luke 8:11) "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 

 1) Physical characteristics

 - the seed is the source of life 
  - grow, sprout, change 
  - reap what you sow 

  2) Spiritual meaning 

Luke 8:11) the seed = the word of God 
→ The true meaning of the seed, the parable of heaven is the word of God. 

 3) two spiritual seeds 

Two kinds of seeds were sown by God and the devil. 

John 17:17) Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 
→ God's seed is the truth. The devil's seed is the false teaching. 

John 1:1-4) God=word=life 
→ We must have the seed of the word, which has life, for out spirit to live.

1 Peter 1:23) For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 

2. The parable of field = person's heart, the world 

1) Physical characteristics

- a place where seeds are sown 
- seeds grow and bear fruit 

2) Spiritual meaning 

Luke 8:15) But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. 
→ We must hear the word, retain it, and persevere to bear precious fruits.

1 Corinthians 3:9) you are God's field 

➤ The true meaning of the figurative field is a person's heart 

3) The seed and harvest 

Jeremiah 31:27) "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will plant the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the offspring of men and of animals."
→The good seed (truth) and the weeds (false teaching) are sown in the same field 

Revelation 14:14-16
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 
15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. 

→ Those born of God's seed and those born of the devil's seed are separated at the harvest time. Heaven's sons are harvested to the barn. The sons of the evil one remain in the field. 

4) the conclusion of heavenly farming 

Jeremiah 31:27, Matthew 13:24-30
→ Those born of two kinds of seeds are in the church of Jesus. Remaining in the field at the harvest time is the proof that one's born of the devil's seed. 

3. The parable of tree = inner person who is born again from the seed and the word (shepherd) 

Matthew 13:31-32
31 He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 
32 Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches."

1) Physical characteristics

- made from a seed 
- when it grows the bird can perch on it 

2) Spiritual meaning 

Isaiah 5:7) tree = person 
Jeremiah 5:14) wood = people 

→ The true meaning of the figurative tree is the inner-person(shepherd) reborn of the seed of the word. 

4. The parable of bird = spirit 

1) Physical characteristics

- fly freely anywhere 
- perch down on tree 

2) The bird of God 

Matthew 3:16) As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 
→ The true meaning of the figurative bird is the spirit. 

3) The bird of Satan 

Luke 8:5) "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. 

Luke 8:12) Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word form their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.  

[Lesson 4] The Figurative Seed, Field, Three, and Bird 

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