'Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”' said The Christ Jesus in The Parable of the Tares. Are you a tare or are you wheat? What is the difference? The Prophet Enoch spoke of the righteous or Elect and the sinners or wicked. The Apostle Paul preached of the elect or saints and the unbelievers or the world. It is God who sees the difference and can foresee an entire life of a person. We might sin but later quit sinning - quit doing wrong actions - or we might never quit. We might not know ourselves or sometimes consider ourselves righteous and sometimes consider ourselves sinners. God sees all of the life of someone He regards as Elect and whether they will hold onto the faith He make cause to grow within them until that faith blossoms in repentance from wrongdoing and learning of His righteous ways. Just as in The Parable of the Tares, it may be that nobody except God with foreknowledge will be sure how each plant in the crop will turn out, whether it is a tare or wheat but by the time of harvest it will become manifest. Yet God can encourage us to believe we are elect by giving us the Holy Spirit and miraclulous signs and love in our hearts towards others He treats this way.
