Bible prophecies

[orangebox21]

So? Context still matters whether it's outside of a parable or not. The phrase "sowed the good seed" is figurative within that context. Jesus himself in that explanation makes that clear.

"the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom"

and that's in the explanation itself.

My mistake, I misunderstood your argument. I thought you were arguing against the explanation of the parable being literal, but rather you were arguing against my analogy ("Seeds are sown, the plants grow and then the harvest. Sowing seeds and harvesting plants are not simultaneous events, according to the explanation of the parable, neither are the kingdom and the second coming.") While I still hold this analogy is within the explanation of the parable, I'll defer to my original question edited for clarity:

How can the kingdom be established at the end of the world when Christ returns (that these two events are temporally synonomous) when Christ says in Matthew 13:41 He shall send His angels to gather out of his kingdom? This implies that the kingdom has already been established prior to the second coming.