Hi Chris,

Well, the parable of the wheat and the tares is pretty general, but i think that the time in which the 'tares' are gathered is given in the text..

Mat 13:38-42
(38) The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one];
(39) The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are the angels.
(40) As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
(41) The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
(42) And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

So, we would look for the gathering the tares at the end of the age, which is given in the figure of a 'harvest'. Revelation uses the same figure... the gathering of the tares is carried out by the events of the harvest which takes place at the end of the age. I understand this to mean the bowl judgments, armageddon, etc

If you go here:


http://www.harvestherald.com/challenge.htm#matt1340

then scroll down a bit, there is a small comparison chart in the far right column comparing the language of the 'wheat and tares' parable to that of Revelation. It seems to me that Evangelicals are so busy trying to prove that the tares go to hell that they totally missed the proper application.