The Wheat and the Chaff

After Jesus was crucified, the Jewish leaders called him an ‘impostor.’ Jesus was nothing like the diety they were following, so they labeled him as fake. If Jesus is the genuine personification of God, then the Jews were worshipping an impostor, the deceiver.

The analogy of making bread is used in the Bible to show us that we must separate the grain from the hull, the wheat from the chaff, in order to get a good result. We must ‘rightly divide’ the word of God to separate the true from the untrue.

Psalm 37 tells us that the blessed of the Lord inherit the land, while the wicked are defeated and destroyed. The blessed are the wheat, the wicked are the chaff. History shows us that Israel was destroyed twice, and the people who remained, the Canaanites and Samaritans, inherited the land.