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10 - The Net - Christ's Object Lessons · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter ten. The net the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a net that
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  was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind, which when it was
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  full, they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good into vessels,
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  but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of
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  the world. The angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the
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  just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be
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  wailing and gnashing of teeth. The casting of the net is the preaching of
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  the Gospel. This gathers both good and evil into the church. When the
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  mission of the Gospel is completed, the judgment will accomplish the work of separation.
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  Christ saw how the existence of false brethren in the Church would cause the
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  way of truth to be Evil spoken of the world would revile the Gospel because
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  of the inconsistent lives of false professors. Even Christians would be caused to stumble
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  as they saw that many who bore Christ's name were not controlled by his spirit.
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  Because these sinners were in the church, men would be in danger of
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  thinking that God excused their sins. Therefore, Christ lifts a veil from the
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  future and bids all to behold that it is character, not position, which
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  decides man's destiny. Both the parable of the Tears and that of the gnat
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  plainly teach that there is no time when all the wicked will turn to God.
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  The wheat and the tears grow together, until the harvest, the good
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  and the bad fish are together drawn ashore for a final separation. Again,
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  these parables teach that there is to be no probation after the judgment. When
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  the work of the Gospel is completed, there immediately follows the separation between the
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  good and evil, and the destiny of each class is forever fixed. God
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  does not desire the destruction of any as I live, saith the Lord God.
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  I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the
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  wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your
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  evil ways, for why will ye die? Throughout the period of probationary time,
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  his spirit is entreating men to accept the gift of life. It is
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  only those who reject his pleading that will be left to perish. God has
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  declared that sin must be destroyed as an evil ruinous to the universe. Those
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  who cling to sin will perish in its destruction. End of chapter ten,