The following excerpt is taken from What Every Christian Should Know About Satan. Order your copy in print, Kindle, or Audible versions here.

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In Jesus’ explanation of the parable of the wheat and weeds, he refers to unbelievers as “children of the evil one.”

Matthew 13:38

“… the field is the world; and the good seed ​— ​these are the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one …”

Here, Jesus reveals the spiritual truths behind the parable of the wheat and weeds (Matt. 13:24-30). As in the parable of the sower, the Lord presents a farmer who has sown good seed in his field. But an enemy invades at night and plants weeds among the wheat. When the wheat matures and begins sprouting heads of grain, the weeds appear as well. 

The hired hands report their discovery to the farmer and ask whether they should pull out the weeds, but the farmer tells them:

“No. When you pull up the weeds, you might also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but collect the wheat in my barn” (Matt. 13:29-30).

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