The Blade, Ear and Corn

The Blade, Ear and Corn
Mark 4:26-29

Mark 4:26-29 reminds us of Isaiah
61:11, where we are told, “For as the
earth bringeth forth her bud, and as
the garden causeth the things that
are sown in it to spring forth; so the
Lord God will cause righteousness
and praise to spring forth before all
the nations.” With this in mind let us
note Mark 4:26-29:

“And he said, So is the kingdom of
God, as if a man should cast seed into
the ground; And should sleep, and
rise night and day, and the seed
should spring and grow up, he
knoweth not how. For the earth
bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the
blade, then the ear, alter that the full
corn in the ear.”
"But when the fruit is brought forth
immediately he putteth in the sickle,
because the harvest is come.”

These two scriptures, the one from the
Old and the other from the New
Scriptures, clearly refute the notion that
the restoration of the kingdom of God on
earth will take place instantaneously and
with great display of power and glory.
It is true that the present world order
will pass away with a great noise amidst
unprecedented world-wide upheaval and
destruction, but the Kingdom of God on
earth is to come forth as the things that
are sown in a garden as we noted in Isaiah
61:11 and as we read in Mark 4 where
Jesus said, “So is the kingdom of God,
as if a man should cast seed into the
ground .... For the earth bringeth
forth fruit of herself; first the blade,
then the ear, alter that the full corn in
the ear.”
Seed sown in the ground does not come
forth in an instant; neither does it spring
forth with a great manifestation of power
and beauty. It comes forth gradually and
at first it is often difficult to discern what
is actually coming out of the ground.
This is as we have seen in the teaching
of the parables of the tares, the mustard
seed, the leaven, and the kingdom parable
of the net cast into the sea — all found in
Matthew 13.

In all of these kingdom parables we are
taught that the nation that was the
restoration of the Kingdom of God on
earth would not be recognized as such
until it became a great nation, and this
would be in the “last days.”
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