Gardening has been part of man’s history since the beginning of creation. God placed man in the Garden of Eden to keep it. Have you ever wondered what tools Adam and Eve used in that special garden? I wonder if they used gloves, a pruning shear, a garden fork, a shovel, a rake, a hoe, a water hose with an adjustable nozzle, a bucket, or a wheel barrel. As I was reading this passage, I came across a term that I didn’t know. I decided to look up some a few other translations because they claim to translate things more clearly, but it didn’t help me out at all because they used the same term “sickle.” Have you ever heard of a sickle? It’s “a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting grain, lopping, or trimming.” In the ancient world, and even in some cultures today, it was a tool used for harvesting. Every gardener knows they will have multiple harvests, but there will ultimately come a time when the plants no longer bear produce. Then, the harvester will destroy all the withered plants. Our passage today is not about a harvest of the saved, but a harvest of the unsaved. Just as a gardener will destroy all the withered plants, Christ will do the same to the earth.
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