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18.The Great Harvests

~ gloriyahway

1. THE BARLEY: 24 Elders, the Bride of Christ and the Fifth Seal Martyrs

2. THE WHEAT: 144,000, the Tribulation Saints and the Two Witnesses

3. THE FRUIT: Resurrected O.T. Saints, Remnant Jews and the Last Martyrs

1. The Barley Harvest

The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest

The 24 Elders

My studies have revealed that the 24 elders are either those who came up out of their graves on the Mount of Olives and walked into Jerusalem right after Jesus Christ was resurrected; Matt. 27:52-53, “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” Or, they were among those who were in Hades/Sheol/Hell the good part, which was ‘the bosom of Abraham’. They both rose at the First Fruits of the barley harvest; They could be the same saints who rose in two parts.

Some of those may’ve been from among those mentioned in Hebrews 11, the Hall of Faith. 8 out of 22 of the Old Testament saints mentioned in Hebrews 11 were not Israelites; For example, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Rahab. Verse 32 states that the writer didn’t have time to write about all of them, so we can speculate: Surely Deborah the prophetess, military leader and 4th and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel belongs in the Hall of Faith! Job certainly belongs and he wasn’t an Israelite. The Barley Harvest is for all nations, just like the Wheat Harvest and doesn’t exclude Hebrew Israelites. The Fruit or ‘Good Grape’ Harvest seems to be the only harvest of saints that’s mostly (but not completely) exclusive to the Jews.

When did the 24 elders arrive in God’s throne room? I agree with most Bereans that it was sometime after Jesus Christ’s Resurrection, probably at the time of His Ascension.

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The Owner’s Portion of the Barley Harvest

Bride of Christ/Church of Philadelphia

“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. . . Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”

Revelation 3: 8,10

Although it’s from the Olivet Discourse, this passage backs up the concept. Luke is considered, by many, to be the gospel to the bride; This passage isn’t in Matt. or Mark.

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth. 36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21 34-35)

Many Bereans think, for quite a few good reasons, that since the body of Jesus Christ has different parts for different purposes, that His bride is one special part of His body for a special purpose. I believe it. If it’s true, I think she must be mainly the Church of Philadelphia, because out of the 7 church types, only to her did Jesus Christ the, Bridegroom, give the special promise that He’d keep her from the hour of trial that’s going to come upon the whole world to test its inhabitants. Perhaps they’re the ones who loved Him the most, having proved it by keeping themselves apart from worldliness, hating the state of this fallen world, while still loving the people in it. This is the group who will have been waiting longingly for Him every day and when He arrives and will LOVE His appearing!

The saints in the Church of Philadelphia are watching, not living for the world. They’re eagerly awaiting and praying every day for our Lord and Savior to come. There are seven types of churches described in Revelation 2-3, and it seems like some saints from each of them will also make it through His open door, but as just mentioned, the Church of Philadelphia is the model of the ‘Bride of Christ’; I think the wise bridesmaids will be brought through Jesus’ door also, and that they’ll be from the other 6 church types.

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St. John is the Individual Model for the Bride of Christ.

St. John, who is called ‘the one Jesus loved,’ was the only apostle who stayed at the cross during Jesus’ crucifixion; 65 years later, immediately after St. John experienced His first amazing Revelation vision, that of Jesus Christ walking among the seven golden lamp stands, which represent the 7 church types, St. John looked and saw an open door. “He heard God say ‘Come up here’ and he went up and saw seven blazing torches before the throne of God; then he saw the Lamb who appeared to have been slaughtered in the center of the throne.” (Rev. 4:1)

The fact that St. John saw all seven lamp stands before the throne of God, and that they were all blazing, seems to indicate that at least some saints from every one of the seven church types, even the five faltering ones, will be gathered by Jesus Christ unto Himself at His Open Door Harvest.

Jesus Christ is the DOOR.

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What I’m calling the Open Door Harvest is the harvest that more and more modern Bereans are calling the Barley Harvest, the owner’s portion. The individuals who make it through Jesus Christ’s Open Door are the ones who’ll be spared the ‘hour of trial’ that’s coming upon the whole world.

In St. John’s Rev. 2-3 vision, Jesus gave a warning to two of the 7 church types. He said He would remove their lamp stands if they didn’t repent. I think it highlights Jesus’ grace that, none of the lamp stands were ultimately removed! If my interpretation is right, the great news of Rev. 4:1 is: All 7 church types will be eternally represented as Christ’s bride or bridesmaids. That’s despite the fact that it was only the Church of Philadelphia who, as a whole, received His special promise. That’s was the promise that He would keep His Door open for them. Jesus Christ our betrothed, He Himself is the Door!

The very next thing St. John sees in God’s throne room is the Lamb of God breaking the seals of the scroll of the Deed to Earth.

So when do the saints of the Open Door Harvest arrive in heaven? If the blazing torches in the throne room of God Almighty truly are symbolic of the seven fold church being full of the holy spirit and shining their light into the world, does that mean that automatically mean that the individual members of the bride of Christ will have already arrived in the third heaven before Jesus Christ takes the scroll from His Father’s hand?

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Or, is His bride still on Earth when the Worthy One begins breaking the seal?

Did St. John witness only the church’s ‘symbolic’ representation in God’s throne room, with the flames on the lamp stands being indicators of the condition of God’s church on Earth, at the time immediately before Jesus breaks the first seal?

It makes sense that the Lamb of God would begin breaking seals right after all 7 begin blazing in unison, indicating that His 7 fold bride’s ready and therefore it’s time for Him to receive the scroll and begin breaking its seals!

It’s important for me to understand this because I see so much evidence that our Lord and Savior has already begun breaking them.

The ‘watching’ part of the church is ready now, hopefully with representatives from each of the 7 church types. (But, I’m hoping that more saints will wake up just before His Open Door Harvest. I don’t see any reason why that that can’t be the case, if His bride is still on Earth, even if Jesus has begun breaking seals.)

When will the Open Door Harvest take place? At first it seemed, to me, that it’d be on one of God our Father’s Torah Law appointed-times/holy convocations, since Jesus Christ was sent to fulfill the law.

Matt. 5:17-18, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law ’till all is fulfilled.”

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In the year of His crucifixion, Jesus Christ fulfilled at least 3, but maybe 4 of the 7 yearly Torah holy convocations/appointed-times, in perfect order. Some think the fourth one, Shavuot/Pentecost, hasn’t been completely fulfilled since Jesus Christ was in heaven, not on or near Earth when He sent the Holy Spirit down, 10 days after His Ascension. Also, Shavuot is a pilgrimage holy convocation, it requires a return trip, and we know that the Holy Spirit must return back to heaven with the saints.

For a brief overview of God’s 7 holy-convocations/appointed times see: 5. Trumpets Herald World Events:

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/28/5-trumpworld/

But there’s not Presently a Temple of God standing in Jerusalem!

Since the masonry temple, with its priesthood, sacrifices and proper time keeping, was central to the keeping of God’s appointed-times, especially the highest-holy-days, the fact that it currently doesn’t exist as it did when Jesus Christ walked the earth, makes it seem like God’s final appointed times can’t be fulfilled yet. Nevertheless, I still watch each of the 7 holy convocation time slots on the calendar carefully. Thankfully, as I’ve matured in my understanding, I’ve discovered that there are quite a few other prophetic high watch periods that we should be aware of, ones that don’t center upon the temple of God. (See post 1.)

I’ve felt His nearness

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don’t want to overlook any possibility!

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So When?

Jesus said We Should Watch!

We can already perceive the accelerating convergence of Old Testament prophesies in addition to many of the cosmic and cultural signs Jesus described in His Olivet Discourse. Even though some of those events will occur after the church is gone, the storm clouds are forming now. I mean it’s time for Jesus Christ to collect His bride and He could do it at any moment. To understand what’s happening in the world right now requires a pretty good foundation in Old Testament prophesy, after all, He was talking mainly to ‘Jews’ with His Olivet Discourse, but we also need to be able to properly integrate that knowledge into New Testament prophesy.

Revelation Type Events Are Approaching Us Daily

Artificial intelligence is doubling its power every three months, trans-humanism is about to irreversibly take hold; These are parts of Mystery Babylon, and so is their tampering with the DNA of everything. The things they’re doing literally underground are unspeakable. See links by Sling and Stone, in post:

22. Mystery Babylon

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/11/22-babylon/

Before they become an overwhelming threat to the mind, body, soul and spirit of His bride/true-church, I believe Jesus Christ our faithful Bridegroom King, will gather His Barley Harvest Bride through His Open Door Self.

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That must be why He said “I know you have little strength” and promised to keep the Church of Philadelphia from the hour of trial. Again, Rev. 4:1 seems to demonstrate that individual unsoiled saints from the other church types will also be redeemed at the same time. Hallelujah!

I’ve not found any verses in the Bible stating that our glorious Lord, Savior, Bridegroom Christ will come for His Church exactly when the 70th week of Daniel begins, exactly when the final Daniel 9:27 agreement is signed (if it is a signed document) or exactly 7 years before the first day of the Millennium. (See post 3.) Although it’s been frequently taught, the Bible simply never says that!

Most Christians conflate the harvests, which is necessary, at times, because they have many similar elements. Complete information about them hasn’t been clearly given to us, because certain things are revealed to us only as needed; This is true, especially in these last days, because satan is most jealous of the bride of Christ and although he want’s us out of here, he will also try to ruin Jesus’ plan.

I’ve mentioned that the bride/true church of Christ must be the Barley Harvest: Barley bows its head while wheat is stiff necked. Barley pearls come right out, while wheat ears must beaten with a tribulum.

Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third holy convocation, which is called ‘First-Fruits’ and it marks the beginning of the barley harvest when a sheaf must be presented to God.

In the three days that His body lay dead, Jesus Christ rescued captives out of Sheol, from Abraham’s bosom. Where did He take them? Either He took them to His Father, in His throne room, as a First-Fruits offering of the Barley Harvest of saints; Or He brought them to paradise, which is the place in heaven where saints who died wait for their glorified bodies that they’ll receive when the rest of the church is harvested.

Just speculation: If Jesus brought the sheaf out from Abraham’s Bosom in Sheol, perhaps they made a pit stop on Earth to animate their old dead bodies which may’ve been those that came up out of their graves on the Mount of Olives when Jesus died.

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Shavuot/Pentecost, God’s fourth holy convocation is the day in which the first fruits of the wheat harvests are presented to God. It also marks the fulfillment of the barley harvest, including the gleanings of the barley harvest of saints who must be martyred at the 5th seal, before the first fruits of the wheat harvest of saints, the 144,000, are sealed, which will happen at the beginning of the sixth seal. see below …

The 7 Year Countdown Begins Before the Church Age Ends:

I think the ‘great tribulation’ (not to be confused with God’s wrath) begins soon after Jesus Christ breaks the FOURTH SEAL. The ‘hour of trial’ is not specifically about Daniels 7 year period on Earth, although time is utterly elastic when traveling in the cosmos, so it’s still possible that the bride will spend exactly 7 years in God’s heaven, if God’s desires it. The first seal events don’t cause great worldwide tribulation, since they’re the diplomatic exploits of the future antichrist before the restrainer’s fully removed. The second seal removes peace, but it’s a process that doesn’t happen all at once, not going nuclear until the fourth seal. The third seal is similar: Food prices begin rising, but the full impact isn’t reached until the progression (march of the black horse) reaches the fourth seal, as supported by Matt. 24:7, which informs us that the famines will occur ‘in various places.’ I think the ‘beginning of sorrows’ become the ‘great tribulation’ at the 4th seal; When the Lamb of God breaks the fourth seal, a 1/4 of humanity will die due to the cumulative effects of all that was allowed to be put into motion when He broke the first three seals. As opposed to the trumpet and the bowls, which are direct judgments from God, breaking the seals are God way to allow the beast to progress.

the tarry

Jesus Christ our Bridegroom strongly implied He’d tarry! But, why would He delay gathering His bride? What if the bride of Christ is busy serving our Lord by warning and/or making preparations for those who’re not getting ready, and are about to enter the great tribulation? I sometimes feel as if that’s what I’m doing.

The limit of the timing of the Open Door Harvest is that it must happen before the death of the 5th Seal Martyrs. According to Levitical Law the owner’s portion of any harvest, must be gathered in completely, before any of the gleanings are touched by the poor or the stranger (which in the case of the end time tribulation will be the ‘Beast System) until the owner (God) has taken the entirety of His portion. That’s according to God’s Levitical Law. But that doesn’t mean satan won’t break God’s law; Nevertheless, we can be fully assured that Jesus Christ will arrive with His Door Open before the 5th seal martyrs arrive under Father God’s alter! Hallelujah! Perhaps we’ll watch King Jesus break the fifth seal after we arrive in God’s throne room!

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The Gleanings of the Barley Harvest

Fifth Seal Martyrs

Gleanings are the part of a harvest that are given over to the stranger and the poor; And they become the new owners. In the case of the harvests of souls at the end of the age, the gleanings are given over to the world. Even though the whole field of the souls of the Barley Harvest had become holy when the sheaf of the First Fruits offering, of saints (the 24 elders) was accepted by God Almighty, God won’t take back for Himself any part that was given over to a different owner, unless they’re put to death by the enemy. This is true in the case of souls in the time of the end, because the new owner, will be the world of the Beast.

Rev. 6: 9-11 “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’ Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were was completed.”

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2. The Wheat Harvest

The First Fruits of the Wheat Harvest

The 144,000

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12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, Dan being replaced by Levi are the first fruits of the Wheat Harvest. What suddenly triggered so many Sons of Jacob to begin following Jesus Christ? It’s likely that after living through the many events that occurred after Jesus Christ broke the first three seals and part of the fourth seal, and seeing so many Christians go missing from Earth because of Jesus Christ’s Open Door Harvest, they figured out who their Messiah really is.

The Owner’s Portion of the Wheat Harvest

The Tribulation Saints

It’s a metaphor. Wheat is the largest harvest of the year in Israel. Wheat requires a beating by a ‘tribulum’ to become useful. Such is not the case with barley, which is why the true church or the ‘bride of Christ’ is referred to as the ‘Barley Harvest.’ The tribulation saints will makeup the greatest harvest of saints ever to be seen in heaven. Their unaccountable multitude was witnessed by St. John after Jesus Christ broke the sixth seal! They’re gathered to heaven by our Lord and Savior, at the conclusion of the ‘great tribulation’ but before God’s wrath. (I call God’s Wrath the ‘greatest tribulation’ to avoid confusion.)

https://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/revelation/7.

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 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:14

In the Book of Revelation, the first mention of the ‘wrath of God’ (which is the greatest tribulation) is at the sixth seal as the ‘great tribulation’ is concluding:

Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?’

Revelation 6:15-17

The Gleanings of the Wheat Harvest

The Two Witnesses

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The Two Witnesses will come on the scene 1,260 days before the Beast comes up empowered, out of the abyss. That means they must arrive very early in Daniel’s 70th week. A very careful analysis of the passage reveals that St. John only reports on the whereabouts of the Two Witnesses when they’re killed and lay in a street of Jerusalem for three days before they’re resurrected from that same spot. The Two Witnesses were never described as being inside the temple courts or on the temple mount. Regarding the initial part of their ministry, I think it’s only due to the fact that the angel told St. John about them, right after getting him (St. John) to measure the future temple of God, that most people assume that the two witnesses will begin and carry out most of their their ministry at the temple of God! And, because of that assumption, the narrative that believers have imagined, is that the Two Witnesses are sent to witness and prophesy only to the Jews; But the Two Witnesses are described by the angel as ‘the 2 olive trees and the 2 lamp stands.’ I think that means they must also speak to Christians; Christian churches hold up 7 lamps; They are a menorah. God has two betrothals in the Bible, one in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament. Two menorahs represent two brides/wives. There’s the betrothed of YHWH and the betrothed His son Jesus Christ. Zechariah is the expert on the lamp stand olive tree vision.What did Zechariah write? He was given a vision of the two olive trees and one menorah, (because there was no church yet then). The angel explained it to Zechariah: The two olive trees represented two humans who fed oil (Holy Spirit) into the covenant people of God (menorah). They were named; They represented the high priest (Joshua) and the kingship (Zerubabbel). Jesus Christ is our high priest and King of kings.

I think Joshua and Zerubabbel are the Two Witnesses. There’s no record of their deaths. I think they’ll be born on Earth in the same way that John the Baptist was, that they’ll grow up here and receive the Holy Spirit; Then at some point, like when Jesus of Nazareth was Baptized they’ll be completely and continuously filled with the Holy Spirit, through which they’ll be granted virtually unlimited defensive powers by God. But, just as the Jews recognized neither Elijah nor their Messiah, I suspect that most ‘Christians’ won’t recognize the Two Witnesses until they become significantly threatened and begin to use their powers in an obvious way.

The overall timing of the last 7 years, shows that they must begin their ministry before the 3rd temple is built and the Beast will kill them 1,260 days later, after they finish their ministry. The Beast’s 42 month free reign begins on the day of their death or three days later after their resurrection. In their 1,260 day ministry, the most effective way for the two witnesses to reach the widest audience is via the internet. They must reach both Jews and Christians, at a time when Jesus Christ’s church is apostacizing and desperately needs correction, almost as much as the Jews do. I think the two witnesses have already been working on earth. I’ve stated a list of who they could be. Jeff Morgan may be one of them. For more see posts 12. Last Hour Links 15. Awesome Testimonies and :

4. The Countdown

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/31/4-last7yrs/

(Start at marker 4.28, then please read entire post.)

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3. The Good Grape Harvest

Overview: The Bible talks about good grapes and bad grapes (wild grapes).

There were some very good grapes produced by various Sons of Jacob, but in the period preceding Judah’s exile almost all the grapes were bad.

Read Isaiah’s poem about it:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%205&version=NIV

Now with Jesus Christ as their vine, good grapes can again be produced by remnant Jews, the fruit of faith.

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John 15: 1-5

I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

We’ve all heard of the Grapes of Wrath, but I think there’s also a Good Grape Harvest since Jesus himself is the good grape vine.

Grape Harvest Passages

Grape Harvest Passages

Then I looked, and there before me was a white cloud. Sitting on the cloud was someone like a Son of Man seated on the cloud was one like a son of man (Jesus) with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. (Rev. 14: 14-16)

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I think Jesus Christ harvested the living branches, those who were attached to Himself. Since Jesus is the grape vine, His true follower are the ‘good grapes’ on the branches that are attached to Him. Although this harvest, which is the first Rev. 14 harvest, isn’t specifically said to be grapes, the barley and wheat harvests had already been completed before Rev. 11. Olives and figs were the only other important late season crops in Jerusalem.

The other Rev. 14 Harvest is the Grapes of Wrath

Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great wine press of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the wine press outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. (Rev. 14 17-20)

Those are the wild grapes that remained, after Jesus took His good grape harvest.

It started with the First Fruits of the ‘Good Grape’ Harvest

Resurrected Old Testament Saints

Soon after the war with Michael and satan breaks out in heaven, there’s a very large resurrection of the Old Testament saints who are the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest.

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Daniel 12: 1-2 “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.  Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life others to shame and everlasting contempt . . .”

With 3 mentions of ‘time’ in just those two verses, perhaps we should ask: ‘when’? The answer is found in the context of the end of Daniel 11, (the final King of the North invading Israel) and also in Revelation 12 7-9 see below:

https://ref.ly/Da11 & https://ref.ly/Da12

Revelation 12: 7-9 “Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”

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The Owner’s Portion of the Good Grape Harvest

The Main Harvest of the Jews

The Main Good Grape Harvest (owner’s portion) is the Rev. 14: 14-16 harvest by Jesus Christ, when He sits on the clouds with His sickle: It takes place after Rev. 12 when the abomination of desolation (A.O.D.) is initially set up and the Jews flee to the mountains to a place God will have prepared for them. We know they’ll stay there for 1,260 days. The sickle Jesus is holding is symbolic; Jesus’ Olivet Discourse tells us that when He harvests them, He’ll be seen across the entire sky by everyone on Earth, from the East to the West, in great glory; And that He’ll be with a host of His angels who’ll gather them. But, this isn’t Jesus Christ’s second coming, when He’ll be accompanied by all His saints – a huge standard – all of us on white horses together with myriads and myriads of good angels. This is only the Olivet Discourse Harvest. No horses are mentioned. The wedding feast hasn’t happened yet in heaven and Armageddon will begin very soon.

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This group isn’t part of Christ’s church, since they’ve already suffered through the seven trumpets of God’s judgment/wrath onto the earth. The church, is not appointed to God’s wrath. But, I think this group will still be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb since they’ll arrive in heaven before the wedding feast.

And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9)

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Gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest of Revelation 19

The Last Martyrs

The last martyrs are described by St. John who saw them toward the end of his journey in the spirit. He saw them standing in heaven beside what appeared to be a sea of glass and fire, and heard them named “those who defeated the beast and his image.” These are the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest. Although they will be mostly Jews, I think there will also be some gentles among them because . . .

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.The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days. … .Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring – those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus. (Rev. 12:6,17)

“And it was given unto him (the Beast) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”

Revelation 13:7

The Revelation 12 woman is Israel, but satan couldn’t get to her, so instead he went after whoever else left on Earth was following her son Jesus Christ. All those who follow Jesus Christ are considered to be her offspring, because they abide in Jesus.

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None of the last martyrs, whether Jew or gentile, are part of Christ’s church, because they come out of God’s wrath. The church is completely gone by then, nevertheless there seems to be a group of gentile stragglers who missed the entire church age, yet are somehow humbled after seeing the Two Witnesses resurrected. Perhaps they find Bibles in their hideouts as they’re trying to dodge the beast; They are saints too. And they seem to arrive in heaven just in time, for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb! See:

Rev. 19:7 https://ref.ly/Re19

Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” (Rev. 19:9)

And he added, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9)For God did not appoint us (the church) to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:9)

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The Last Martyrs will come out of the Wrath of God

None of these will have repented until after the sixth trumpet judgement (the second woe). Not even being tortured for five months by demonic locusts from the bottomless pit, at the fifth trumpet judgment, without being able to die although wishing to, impressed them enough to call out to Jesus Christ for help. Only later, after hearing the powerful testimonies of the Two Witnesses and seeing the beast come out of the bottomless pit and kill them, and then seeing them resurrected 3.5 days later, followed by a great earthquake that destroys a tenth of the Jerusalem, did they finally get humble and turn to Jesus Christ.

In Rev. 20, St. John sees the souls of the last martyrs, and sees them come to life and reign with Christ for a thousand years!

Handy chart: Three Harvests, each with three parts:

First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hades, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when He “took captivity captive”.

My interpretation of the two harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second harvest is the grapes of wrath and the first one is the smaller harvest of good grapes.

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Final thoughts about gleanings:

According to Romans 11:18, When the first-fruits of something offered to God is holy, the whole lump is holy; This applies to fields of grain and other crops. The gleanings of a holy field (lump) are given over to the poor and the stranger who become its new owner.

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Leviticus chapters 25-27 relates to harvests, valuation, vows, redemption and many animal offerings, which are also holy to God.

God has given rules about their redemption, including cases when the animal must be killed. see post 2

(((These are not the regular alter sacrifices.)))

As far as I understand it, no living thing that’s holy to God, and is then given over to another owner can be redeemed back to God except by death. The corners of a field are holy to God, if that field has been dedicated to God. But, God has commanded in Torah for them to be given over to the poor and the stranger passing through. The corners are the gleanings. Therefore, regarding God’s harvest of souls, those saints who find themselves as part of the gleanings in the end times, having actually been given over to the world Beast/Antichrist system, must be martyred by the enemies team. That’s the only way God will take them back.

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That’s an example of gleanings of a holy batch. I believe that verse is also about the portion of the Good Grape Harvest that must be put to death in order to to be redeemed back to God and that similar things happened with the Barley and Wheat Harvests.

18.24 See the Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

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19. Sons of Jacob

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19.Sons of Jacob

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First The Jews

Through extraordinary pressure, like a crucible, a 1/3 remnant of the Jews will be saved.

3 groups will survive the Day of the Lord/Time of Jacob’s Trouble.

There’s also a group raised from the dead. (Dan. 12:2)

First an introduction: Then I’ll go over these three groups again below, with more detail.

Starting with the most rebellious group:

The final group of Jews is the one that rebels until the very last instant, after all individuals of the Good Grape Harvest of Jews have been taken or martyred, and are all in God’s Heaven.

Although still considered to be of the ‘elect’ this extremely rebellious group will have missed their chance to attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in God’s Heaven; They’ll not be killed but will instead be ‘translated’ directly into the Millennial Kingdom, because they finally call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ or Yeshuah ha Mashiach. Sadly, they’ll miss out on meeting our Holy Heavenly Father, but they’ll be blessed to receive greatly extended life spans. They won’t receive glorified immortal bodies, but they’ll reproduce for up to 1,000 years while living in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Introducing the other two groups of Jews on Earth who’ll be saved:

Both these groups are of the Fruit or Good Grape Harvest. As I understand it, they’ll receive lives of eternal love from Jesus Christ, starting with being taken to heaven to meet God Almighty and will be greatly blessed to be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb as ‘bridesmaids.’ And they’ll receive glorified immortal bodies right away.

This is what the Lord says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all. I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will possess my mountains. (Isaiah 65:8-9)

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. (John 15:5-6)

19.1 See the Glory of God

Generally for all three groups of Jews:

Most of the Jews will be saved through desperate repentance under extreme tribulation. At last, many will reach out to Jesus as their Messiah, and as God the Son, with terrible, deep, heart wrenching sorrow.

These will mostly be from among the Jews living in Israel during the beginning of the greatest tribulation of all time. Hopefully a great many of those will follow Jesus their Messiah’s instructions, given in Matt. 24:21 to flee to the mountains when they see the abomination of desolation being set up in the holy place .

Jews living in other places will probably see the A.O.D. on their devices.

19.2 Glory God Beyond, Jews

Those in Judah will be under greater pressure to take the Mark of the Beast or be martyred. Not every Son of Jacob who flees to the mountains will necessarily be a new believer; Some might follow the group just because they see others fleeing. Hopefully many of those will get saved once they get there.

Christians have long been stuffing the cracks of the caves and dugout buildings of Bozrah/Petra full of Bibles in preparation for the coming 1,260 days that the Jews will soon be spending there.

1,260 days after the A.O.D.’s first appearance, Jesus Christ will send His angels to gather believers from the mountain safe place that He prepared for them, and presumably from wherever else in the world they’ll be hiding. They are all the owner’s portion of Jesus’ Good Grape Harvest.

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Bozrah/Petra in the Jordan Valley is most likely the safe place although some scholars think it’s in Sinai.

The group of Jews that obey Jesus Christ’s instructions to flee to the mountains must be from the group described in Rev. 11, those who turn and give God glory, after seeing the Two Witnesses resurrected and raptured, and the great earthquake that destroys ten percent of Jerusalem killing 7,000 people.

The final part of the Good Grape Harvest, the gleanings, consists of most of the rest of the newly believing Jews, the ones who will not have fled to the refuge fast enough. They’ll be martyred. Since they’ve all become saints, Jews from the last two groups will be taken to heaven, to meet our Heavenly Holy Father and to take part in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

The reason I think they’ll not have missed that ‘once in an eternity’ opportunity is because the Wedding Supper is described in the Book of Revelation, five chapters after Jesus Christ harvests His owner’s portion of the ‘good grapes.’

19.4 Glory God Beyond, Jews

All harvests of the Jews begin after the 7th trumpet is blown:

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet,

and there were loud voices in heaven,

which said:

“The kingdom of the world has become
    the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
    and he will reign for ever and ever.”

Rev. 11:15

As mentioned at the top of this post, there are also Jews in Judah who won’t flee to the mountains or be martyred.

After the A.O.D. is set up, this group still tries to rely on their own strength and any other methods including calling upon the true Almighty God, but without acknowledging the name of God’s Son, their Messiah. Passages in Zechariah and Romans support this. They won’t call out to Jesus Christ until about one second before they will have been utterly annihilated. In other words, only at: Satan’s ultimate showdown, a breathing fire down your throat moment, will they finally call upon the name of their true Messiah.

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Jesus Christ the Glorious Worthy Savior

The very instant they call upon their glorious Savior King, in any language, the horrible reality from beyond anyone’s worst nightmare vanishes – in a flash! So instantaneously will it vanish, that they might actually wonder if it was all just a dream! Yet, Jesus Christ their Savior Messiah King will be right there in front of them, elevated on His supernatural white horse wearing a spectacular blood stained white garment; He’ll Be In ALL His Glory! And He’ll be backed up by His myriads and myriads of holy angels and all the holy saints wearing pristine white linen while riding supernatural horses that gallop on air!

Climax

The climactic moment!

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As soon as these Jews call on His name the sky literally splits open and everybody on Earth sees the Glory of Jesus Christ and His people, His Kingdom and His spectacular angelic host. The double edged sword comes out of His mouth; He speaks the WORD of truth for all His enemies on Earth to hear. Unable to bear the truth, most of his enemies will drop dead on the spot – defeated – by perceiving themselves – where they actually stand – in the severity of God Almighty’s Holy Light, by His standard of perfection, in the Glory of Truth in Jesus Christ’s name!

By the time the above final Armageddon event will have happened, there will have already been other appearances of Jesus Christ within the final 7 years, such as at the sixth seal, when even the throne of God the Father is glimpsed by everyone, and at the main harvest of the Jews, just a month before Armageddon. There’s even a time when Jesus Christ will actually set foot upon Earth, although not appearing to very many! Yes, the Bible says He’ll descend into Egypt and make His way up through the Jordan Valley to shed the blood of Edom, Moab and Ammon. That part He did completely alone! That’s why His garments will already be stained red when He arrives with the saints and angels at Armageddon.


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Three Harvests, each with three parts:

First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from Hades, the ‘Bosom of Abraham’, when He “took captivity captive” (Eph. 6:8).

My interpretation of the two harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second is the grapes of wrath.

19.8 Glory God Beyond, Jews

The 10 Lost Tribes

Abraham – Issac – Jacob – Joseph – Ephraim

The 10 Northern Tribes, who became lost, were called ‘Ephraim‘ because Ephraim was the largest and most dominant of those tribes. Ephraim, the grandson of Jacob, was the second son of Joseph.

Jacob loved Joseph more than his other sons because he was born of Rachael his beloved chosen wife. (Remember ‘Leah,’ Rachel’s sister, was forced upon him by their father ‘Laban’.) All of Joseph’s brothers became so jealous that they sold Joseph to traveling merchants, who dragged Joseph to Egypt. In Egypt, Joseph was mistreated and imprisoned for two years, but was released in the third year. He eventually rose to become the right hand man of Pharaoh!

Joseph’s role is crucial! He’s the foreshadowing of the ultimate suffering servant, Jesus Christ, as He was revealed in His first coming. Joseph’s role embodied the ‘forgiving spirit’ and humility, which he maintained even after his rise to be the right hand of Pharaoh, who was the King of kings of middle Earth at that time. The parallel is that Jesus ascended to the highest heaven and sat on the throne at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. But there’s another interesting parallel, one which is often overlooked; Both have a gentile (or mostly gentile) wife!

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Association with Gentiles Continues on with Joseph’s Future Descendants through Ephraim:

Hosea 7:8 “Ephraim mixes with the nations.”

Genesis 48:19 “. . . his younger brother (Ephraim) will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”

Hosea 9:17, “My God will reject them because they’ve not obeyed him – they (Ephraim) will be wanderers among the nations.”

Thus began the epic saga of the Sons of Jacob: Egypt – Exodus – Wilderness – Marriage covenant with God Almighty – Promised Land – Rebellion – Judges – Kings – Division – Divorce – Lost – Return!

Jeremiah 31

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031&version=NIV

Presumably, in modern day Israel, there’s a notable element of descendants from of the Northern Tribes that now just call themselves Jews, because in the 722 BC exile, at least some Israelites from most of the 10 Northern Tribes, escaped the Assyrian exile by taking refuge in Judah. Also, some rejoined the Jews in Babylon.

19.10 Glory God Beyond, Jews

The tribe of ‘Dan’ may be the exception. They may have truly vanished from Earth, as they did not stick to their land inheritance. In their wanderings, they were drawn to the foot of Mt. Hermon, the top of which is thought to be the location of the portals that the fallen angels used to come to Earth and corrupt human DNA. In the first century, the foot of that area was within Caesarea Philippi and was commonly called the Gates of Hades (hell).

When Jesus and Peter were standing there, Jesus said:

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. (Matt. 16:18-19)

Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah. Notice there is no tribe of Dan included in the 144,000. (Rev. 7: 5-8)

Even the UN knows about the fallen angel portals. That’s why they have an off limits station up top, a topic for another post! Israel just got control of it. (See link at the bottom of 28.Lucifer Impostor.)

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A note on the word ‘elect’:

When the word elect is used surrounding the events of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, . . .

. . . it can be misunderstood by Christians who assume that the term ‘elect’ always only refers to church saints. As a result, many of them are forced to conclude that even the bride of Christ will be present on Earth when God’s expresses His final accumulated and long restrained wrath toward human kind, in the form of severe judgments upon the whole planet, which will be worse than the Nazi holocaust, not only for the Jews, but for everyone!

The Old Testament, as well the New Testament, at times, uses the term ‘elect’ to refer to certain Sons of Jacob. The Day of the Lord is specifically called The Time of Jacob’s Trouble because it’s deeper purpose is to fully bring into fruition the promises God made to Abraham. To fulfill those promises, God always intended that the biological Sons of Jacob would also ‘overcome the world’ by calling on the name of Jesus Christ; It was never just about the grafted on gentiles. Even those Sons of Jacob who cry out at the last second will be called ‘elect.’ I believe they will be counted among the sheep, as that is the only group left.

Matt. 34 “Then the King will say to those on His right (sheep), ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

https://www.biblehub.com/genesis/35-10.htm)

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The Old Testament’s full of warnings to the Israelites and Jews about the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. It’s of the utmost importance to God the Father, who created everything for and through His Son the WORD, to bring a remnant of all the remaining tribes of the Sons of Jacob into His promised Kingdom, as it will manifest here on a temporarily revived version of this Earth. God promised that it’ll be ruled by a descendant of Judah through the line of David, but not through Solomon, because Solomon turned to Baal, the worst form of idol worship.

More Specifics about the Good Grape Harvest of the Jews:

More Specifics about the Good Grape Harvest of the Jews:

According to Torah Law, the first fruits of any harvest must be presented to God Almighty before the owner of the field can harvest his portion.

19.13 Glory God Beyond, Jews

Here’s a related passage from the Old Testament, Daniel 12:2 “sometime after the archangel Michael wars against Satan in heaven, many of Daniel’s people (Sons of Jacob) who sleep in the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt”

https://biblehub.com/daniel/12-2.htm.

As for the part about the Jews who’ll awaken to everlasting shame, I’m assuming Daniel’s vision used ‘condensed time,’ for a forward glimpse at the Great White Throne Judgment, because those coming to shame and everlasting contempt will not be resurrected until the completion of the Millennium.

We can check the harvest chart above: The owner’s portion of the Fruit or Good Grape Harvest doesn’t take place until Rev. 14. Since the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest must have happened before that, it fits that those who slept in the earth and will awake to everlasting life, mentioned in both Rev. 12 and Daniel 12:2, are in fact the first fruits of the grape harvest.

19.14 Glory God Beyond, Jews

Remembering the Gleanings

Since using the three harvest model, those who I used to call the ‘last martyrs,’ although they literally are the last martyrs, are more appropriately called the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest.

But, are 100% of the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest Jews?

I deduce ‘no’, using the following rational: About 30% of the people included in the ‘Hall of Faith’ of Hebrews 11, are not sons-of-Jacob, nevertheless some of those are very likely to be among the 24 elders: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Rahab; also Deborah and Job. So, likewise, there could be a number of gentiles who’ll be among the last martyrs who follow the Jewish Messiah and refuse the Mark-of-the-Beast at the latter part of the Day of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. So they must be harvested as part of the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest. The last gentile martyrs, even though they’re not part of the church, because the church isn’t appointed to God’s wrath, they will nevertheless be true Israelites by faith. They’re grafted onto the Olive Tree of Israel through that faith, and will have to prove it by their martyrdom. (That’s the final upward harvest.) The predominately Jewish nature of the last martyrs is demonstrated by the songs they sing in heaven: The Song of Moses, but also the Song of the Lamb! The following is a glimpse of them in heaven:

19.15 Glory God Beyond, Jews

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Revelation 15:2-3

The Important Event That Sets off the Entire ‘Good Grape Harvest.’

The Two Witnesses

.

Their

Death

and

Resurrection

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Although this section is a bit out of order because the Two Witnesses, as the gleanings of the Wheat Harvest, are resurrected and raptured right before the first-fruits of the Good Grape Harvest, which I already described, I still need to write about them here:

After the events of the ‘sixth trumpet’ are completed. There is a pause in the trumpets;

St. John eats the scroll given to him by an awesome angel of God.

Then St. John finds himself transported to a future time where he’s told to measure the temple of God. After that an angel tells him about the Two Witnesses, stating that they’re ‘the two olive trees and the two lamp stands’. The angel gives St. John more information about them: That they’ll be given great powers, as great as the powers Moses and Elijah had, and that they’ll use those powers when they’re threatened, which will make the world hate them. The angel explained that they’ll be killed by the Beast when they finish their 1,260 day testimony. The angel explained that it will happen after the Beast ascends from the abyss, and that the two witnesses will lay in a Jerusalem street for 3 1/2 days, while the world celebrates. The angel explained that the two witnesses will be resurrected and raptured 3.5 days later in front of a great multitude of observers who will hear God voice say “Come up here!” They will ascending in a cloud, just like Jesus had done 2,000 yrs prior.

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See Chart: It might seem strange that the Two Witnesses are the gleanings of the multinational Wheat Harvest, since we’ve been focusing on the Hebrew Israelites in this post. But, there’s not a single part of any harvest, that I know of, that doesn’t contain some of the Sons-of-Jacob/Hebrew-Israelites and/or Jews!

The Turning Point, a summary:

Immediately after the Two Witnesses are resurrected, a severe earthquake will destroy a tenth of Jerusalem, which will kill 7,000 people. This particular cluster of events will finally provoke many, especially the eye witnesses in Jerusalem, to terror, which is what will cause a great number to turn to the one True Almighty God in the name of His Precious Son, Jesus Christ! So, at last, at last they’ll give Him the righteous glory, in Jesus Christ’s name, the glory that only He deserves. They’ll acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Messiah; He’s the shine on God our Father’s glory. Jesus Christ the Holy One, with no shadow to be found within Him, will receive the worship that only He deserves! HALLELUJAH!

https://www.biblehub.com/revelation/11-13.htm

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