Matthew 13:30

30. Let both grow together until the harvest Let the probationary state remain until the judgment day. Then shall the final separation of the good and the evil take place. The evil shall be sent to hell, and the righteous to heaven. Gather ye… first the tares… gather the wheat Upon the same gathering both tares and wheat are sent each to their own place. We remark here:

1 . We have here a very clear contradiction of the millenarian theory that there are two resurrections, one of the righteous, another of the wicked, a thousand years apart.

2 . We have also a very express condemnation of the doctrine that God will first destroy the wicked, and allow the saints to reign on earth a thousand years before the final judgment. The wicked and the righteous will both continue undestroyed during the time of probation. This belongs to the very nature of the probation.

3 . Nor does this parable contradict the doctrine that men will be generally converted for ages before the judgment. It is destruction, not conversion, that the parable intends to deny. Men will be permitted to be wicked even in the millennium. They will be of the same depraved nature as now. Only the main mass will be saints by conversion and sanctification.

4 . Let us from this parable understand the divine government, and never wonder at the sparing or even the prosperity of the wicked.

This is the season of probation, but the day of judgment will show a different state of things. Verily there is a just God over all.