Whenever I browse throughout Christian news sources, there seems to be an underlying theme at work within the American Church – separation and sanctification. God is always, in varying degrees, separating, the wheat from the chaff in His Church and separating the wheat from the chaff in the individual lives of his people, as well. Though the full meaning of this verse has eschatological significance, it could be argued that this verse is applicable at all times and places. This is the first instance that the idea of separation is brought up within the New Testament. In this verse, Jesus is portrayed as someone who will separate the wheat from the chaff gathering the wheat into His barn and burning up the chaff in a conflagration. Speaking of Jesus, John the Baptist, Matthew 3:12 says, “His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor, gathering His wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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