Want to add that parable
Consider the parable about the seed planted in different types of ground and then this:
He knows the end from the beginning.
Isaiah 46:10, “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yet been done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do.”
Parable of the Sower Sowing Seed
Matthew 13:1-23,
1 And on that day יהושע went out of the house and sat by the sea.
2 And large crowds were gathered together to Him, so that He went into a boat and sat down. And all the crowd stood on the beach.
3 And He spoke to them much in parables, saying, “See, the sower went out to sow.
4 And as he sowed, some indeed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them.
5 And others fell on rocky places, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.
6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered.
7 And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.
8 And others fell on good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
10 And the taught ones came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 And He answering, said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not been given
12 For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given, and he shall have overflowingly; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.
Luke 8:18, “Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not possess, even what he thinks he possesses shall be taken from him.”
13 Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
14 And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive,
15 for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’
Isaiah 6:9-10, 9 And He said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’ 10 “Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and shall turn and be healed.”
16 And blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,
17 for truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
18 You, then, hear the parable of the sower:
19 “When anyone hears the word of the reign, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that sown by the wayside.
20 “And that sown on rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
21 yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived, and when pressure or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
22 “And that sown among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the worry of this age and the deceit of riches choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.
Luke 21:34, 34 “And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that day come on you suddenly."
23 “And that sown on the good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields – some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
Matthew 7:24-27, “Therefore everyone who hears
these words of Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. And
everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not do them, shall be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.”