Yom Teruah is a God appointed holy day of shouting and trumpet blowing.
Most people call it the the Feast of Trumpets.
Yom Teruah comes to mind when we read these rapture verses:
1 Thess. 4: 16-17, For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
It’s pretty clear now that Christ won’t be gathering His bride on a Yom Teruah. But, it’s been a high watch date every year. For more on that part of ‘the day no men knew’ discussion see the bottom of this post.
Yom Teruah which was traditionally observed with 100 trumpet blows, with the first and last soundings being special long blows, had traditionally been called the, ‘the day that no man knows.’ It’s a Hebrew idiom:
It was the only Torah appointed-day that began exactly when the ‘new moon’ was sighted by two witnesses from Jerusalem.
The people of God had to be on their toes, because the festival was a special High Sabbath Day.
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It can be quite difficult to determine the first sliver of the month when the sky isn’t clear. Some months have two invisible moons in a row, and also in certain months, the first sliver is very thin. The first sliver is also challenging to see because it appears low on the horizon. Modern astronomers call the unseen moon a ‘new moon,’ but for the Israelites, the first sliver was the new moon. It would’ve been very festive to sight an invisible moon.
Contrary to what some Bible expositors believe, there’s no mention of equinoxes in the Torah. God’s Torah calendar used a different way to prevent the first month, Nissan, from slipping into Winter. They added an intercalary month called ‘Adar’ in the years when Spring hadn’t yet sprung and barley heads hadn’t turned green at Winter’s end.
That was how it was supposed to be, but the Israelites greatly corrupted the calendar God’s gave them, by changing their New Year to the Fall.
Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets, was never supposed to be the first day of the seventh month. Today they call it Rosh Hashanah which means ‘head-of-the-year,’ but God’s Rosh Hashanah is in Spring. Although the barley ripening method was still used to adjust the moon cycles with the sun cycles, their Torah calendar was very corrupted. The ‘head-of-the-year’ was supposed to bring forth memories their exodus from Egypt. It was a time to get focused on Passover and the related Spring holy convocations with God, in the temple. And the mysterious meaning of Yom Teruah was lost on them. It became a silly confetti throwing, noisy, meaningless secular event, even a parade of rebellion at times.
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In addition to moon sighting, the determination of the exact day upon which Yom Teruah would be observed was left up to authority’s discretion. They would sometimes use the event as an excuse to add an extra day between the end of the previous civil year, for various reasons, including a misplaced fine tuning of the time differences between the lunar and solar cycles.
As mentioned above, the Winter’s end add on leap months were an attribute they kept from God’s Torah calendar. The scribes and priesthood still tried to somewhat keep the Torah calendar, even until the 2nd temple was destroyed, but it was very perverted by the populace who were celebrating Rosh Hashanah in the Fall! Perhaps that’s why there’s no record of Jesus attending Rosh Hashanah in the Gospels. Most Jews modern don’t even know what we’re talking about when we mention Yom Teruah or Feast of Trumpets.
Fall Festivity
After the destruction of the second temple, Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets, became utterly supplanted by the spirit of the celebration of rebellion and a false new year, although trumpets are still blown.
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Yom Teruah, which means day of shouting and trumpet blowing was commanded by YHWH in Leviticus 23:24 and Numbers 29:1:
It was commanded to be observed by Hebrew Israel as one holy day. And it’s the only holy convocation for which God gave no clear reason for its observance. That’s part of what makes it so mysterious! I believe was always foreshadowing the urgent warnings that will take place in and around the final years of Daniel 9. The fact that it precedes the ten solemn days of repentance leading up to the Day of Atonement gives us an ominous clue that that Yom Teruah will be used as harbinger in the end times to alert us that the Time of Jacob’s Trouble is drawing near.
It’s become well known that it was also a common phrase among the participants of Yom Teruah to utter ‘no one knows the hour’ regarding when the last trumpet will be blown. That was part of the intrigue as they approached the dark night.
According to the Gregorian calendar, yet still based on the imperfect Hebrew calendar used by Chabad, the date/time for the conclusion of the observation of the Feast of Trumpets 2023 was Sept. 17, the second day of the Rabbinical calendar new year. And something very notable occurred that I call Jesus’s Midnight Portent, a foreshadowing of His Midnight Cry.
The trumpets were blown the day before the UN SDG 2030 Agenda Summit began and the next day, the major agreement was ratified. see
On October 7, 2023, 21 days after those trumpets were blown, and 19 days after the SDG 2030 Agenda was ratified, Hamas brutally attacked Israel at the Nova concert.
There was also one of God’s celestial signs: Comet Nishimura reached it’s perihelion on Sept. 17, 2023 while it was passing through Leo, representing the Lion of Judah on its way to Virgo, which represents Israel in the Rev. 12 and Purim signs.
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Regarding the Sept. 17, 2023 date I gave above for the Midnight Portent, I said it happened on the ‘conclusion of’ Yom Teruah? Why? Wasn’t it commanded by YHWH as one appointed day? Wasn’t the last trumpet of Yom Teruah supposed to be blown only on the first day of the month?
Ancient traditions developed, for Jews outside Israel, to the extend nearly all Torah holy convocations by an additional day, because of great difficulty keeping track of a Jerusalem-centric lunar calendar from afar; They didn’t want to inadvertently miss the actual day that God commanded. That’s why our calendars for 2023, not only show both Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 as Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah, but no trumpets at all were blown on Sept. 16 this year because it fell on a weekly Sabbath.
Strangely not blowing trumpets when the Feast of Trumpets falls on a weekly Sabbath came to be the tradition, despite the fact that Feast of Trumpets itself is a High Sabbath, in which trumpet blowing was commanded!
. . . when we refer to Hebrew days by the Gregorian calendar, we go by the date that corresponds to its ‘daylight portion’ otherwise it gets confusing. Example, when we refer to ‘Sept 16’ as the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishri, it’s understood that Tishri 1 actually began, not at midnight, but about six hours before that, at sunset (literally on Sept 15.)
Metonic Cycle
Despite the fact the Jews had the mathematical, Metonic Cycle calendar, possibly as early as around 380 BC, which may have assisted the heads of diaspora Jewish communities in keeping track, they decided to keep on observing the extra days for their supposed holy convocations.
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A very good thing is that at the time Jesus walked the Earth in the flesh, they still hadn’t considered the Metonic calendar to be completely reliable and so were continuing to add leap years at the end of Winter. This information was very difficult to come by; It turns out to be important in knowing all possible dates upon which Christ was crucified.
Not until the fourth century did Rabbinical Judaism fully institute it. But, Rabbinical authorities invented statutes to artificially constrain the days upon which the Feast of Trumpets could start, to Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays, in order to keep other high holy days of that month from falling on ‘undesirable’ days.
Regarding calendars, if that’s not enough, and there’s actually a lot more, including missing years on the Anno Mundi rabbinical calendar. One thing that really demonstrates the degradation of Torah holy convocation time keeping, is that even since the ‘Fig Tree Generation’ put forth its tender shoots and leaves, The Nation of Israel was re-established in 1948, the Feast of Trumpets is still celebrated for two days even IN ISRAEL!
1 Corinthians 15: 51-52, Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Matthew 14:31, And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
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. TheBarley 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 in the bosom of Abraham. Both those groups rose at the time of the first fruits of the barley harvest.
Some of those may’ve been from among those mentioned in the Hebrews 11Hall-of-Faith. 8 out of 22 of the Old Testament saints mentioned in Hebrews 11 weren’t even 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 was not an Israelite. The Barley Harvest is for all nations, just like the Wheat Harvest and it doesn’t exclude Hebrew Israelites. The Fruit or ‘Good Grape’ Harvest seems to be the only one that’s mostly (but not completely) exclusive to the Jews.
When do the 24 Elders arrive in God’s throne room? I agree with most Bereans that it was sometime from Jesus Christ’s death and His resurrection.
The Bride of Christ and the 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
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’s true. If it’s true, I think she must be mainly the Church of Philadelphia, because, out of the 7 church types, to her alone did Jesus 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 it’s 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.’
St. John is the Individual Model for the Bride of Christ.
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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 and he saw the Lamb who appeared to have been slaughtered in the center of His 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 call the Barley Harvest. (It’s the owner’s portion.) The individuals who make it through Jesus Christ’s Open Door are the ones who will be spared the hour of trial that’s coming upon the whole world.
In St. John’s vision, Jesus gave a warning to two of the 7 church types, that He’d remove their lamp stands if they didn’t correct themselves. I think it highlights Jesus’ grace that, none of the lamps tands 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, even though it was only the Church of Philadelphia that received His special promise, the promise that He’d keep His Door open for them. In other words, it appears that mature saints from each of the other church types will be brought through the very same Door. Who is the Door? Jesus Christ our betrothed, He Himself is the Door!
The next thing St. John sees in God’s throne room is the Lamb of God breaking the seals of the scroll.
When do the saints of the Open Door Harvest arrive in heaven? If the 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 the individual members of the bride of Christ will have already arrived in the third heaven before Jesus takes the scroll from His Father’s hand?
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Or, is the bride still on Earth?
Did St. John write only of the church’s symbolic presence in God’s throne room, in which the flames on the lamp stands were indicators of the state the church on Earth, especially immediately before Jesus will break the first seal of the scroll? If so, then it makes sense to me that the Lamb of God would begin breaking seals at the time when all 7 are blazing. His bride will be ready; So it will be time for Him to begin breaking the seals! It’s important for me to understand this because I see so much evidence that our Lord and Savior has already begun breaking seals.
That seems to mean that the watching part of the church is ready now. (I’m hoping more that more saints will wake up just before His Open Door Harvest.)
When will the Open Door Harvest be? 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 on the original Pentecost and/or because it’s a pilgrimage, which requires a return trip of the Holy Spirit, back to heaven, to be complete.
For a brief overview of God’s 7 holy-convocations/appointed times see: 5. Trumpets Herald World Events:
There’s not presently a temple of God standing in Jerusalem!
Since the Temple with it’s 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 the holy convocation times on the calendar carefully. 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 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 it’s power every three months, transhumanism 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 link by Sling and Stone, in post:
Before they become an overwhelming threat to the mind, body, soul and spirit of His bride/church, I believe Jesus Christ our faithful King will gather in His Barley Harvest Bride through His Open Door.
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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. And, as Rev. 4:1 seems to demonstrate, 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, 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, it seems, that certain things are revealed to us only as needed. This is true, especially in these last days. 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 it’s 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’ which is the beginning of the barley harvest when a sheaf must be presented to God.
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The firstfruits of the wheat harvest are presented to God as two loaves of bread on the fourth holy convocation, which is called Shavuot. Shavuot/Pentecost mean 7 weeks or 50 days because that’s how long it takes for the rest of the barley harvest to be fulfilled.
In the three days that His body lay dead, Jesus Christ rescued captives out of Sheol, from Abraham’s bosom, and brought them to heaven, presenting them to His father as a First-Fruits offering of the Barley Harvest of saints.
Since there’s a First-Fruits of a Barley Harvest dedicated to God, there must be an owner’s portion coming after that. If she’s not the bride of Christ then who else?
I think the Seven Year Countdown Begins Before the Church Age Ends:
It seems reasonable that there’d be some overlap. Perhaps that overlap is the tarry. Jesus Christ our Bridegroom strongly implied He’d tarry! 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 best indication of the timing of the Open Door Harvest is given by the 5th Seal Martyrs. According to Levitical Law the owner’s portion of any harvest, must be gathered before any gleanings are touched. Not a single gleaning can be legally touched by the poor or the stranger, which in the case of the end time tribulation will be the Beast System, until the owner has taken the entirety of his portion. That’s according to God’s Levitical Law. That’s how we know that the Open Door Harvest will happen before Jesus Christ breaks the fifth seal! Hallelujah! The owners portion of the Barley Harvest of Saints must come first!
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The Gleanings of the Barley Harvest
Fifth Seal Martyrs
Gleanings are given over to the stranger and the poor who 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 became holy because the first-fruits offering, 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. This is especially true in the case of souls in the time of the end, because the new owner is the world, and the world is controlled by 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 events after Jesus Christ broke the first three or four seals, and seeing so many Christians go missing from Earth because of His 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 ‘church’ or the ‘bride of Christ’ is referred to as the ‘Barley Harvest.’ The tribulation saints makeup the greatest harvest of saints 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 begins. (I call God’s Wrath the ‘greatest tribulation’ to avoid confusion.)
“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.” Rev. 7: 9-14
Revelation 7:14
In the Book of Revelation, the first mention of the ‘wrath of God’ (which is the greatest tribulation) only occurs as the ‘great tribulation’ concludes (at the sixth seal):
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
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The Two Witnesses
The Two Witnesses come on the scene 1,260 days before the Beast comes out of the abyss, so they must arrive extremely early in the 70th week of Daniel. A very careful analysis of the passage reveals that Daniel only sees the Two Witnesses when they’re killed and lay in a street of Jerusalem and when they’re resurrected. Regarding the initial part of the ministry of the Two Witnesses, the angel told Daniel about their powers after Daniel measured the temple. But, the angel never described the Two Witnesses as actually being in the temple or on temple mount. For all those reasons, it’s possible they begin their ministry before the temple is built. I actually think they’re working now. For the complete analysis:
“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 also must be a Good Grape Harvest since Jesus himself is the good grape vine.
Here are the 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. Revelation 14:14-16
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I think He harvested the living branches, those who were attached to Himself. SinceJesus is the grape vine, His true follower are the ‘good grapes on the branches that are attached to Him. Although this harvest, the first Rev. 14 harvest, isn’t specifically said to be grapes, the barley and wheat harvests had already been completed before chapter 11. Olives and figs are the only other important late season crops.
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. 17-20
Those are the wild grapes that remained, after Jesus took His good grape harvest.
The First Fruits of the ‘Good Grape’ Harvest
Resurrected O.T. Saints
Soon after the war with Michael and Satan breaks out in heaven, there’s a very large resurrection of the Old Testament saints! Those 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, (Antichrist invading Israel) and also here: Daniel 12:2 & Revelation 12: 7-9 see below:
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 harvests of the Jews
TheMain 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 first 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. We know from Jesus’ Olivet Discourse that when He harvests them He’ll be seen across the entire sky by everyone from east to west in great glory and He’ll be with a host of His angels who’ll gather them. But, this isn’t our Jesus Christ’s second coming. This is the Olivet Discourse Harvest. No horses are mentioned. The wedding feast hasn’t happened yet in heaven and Armageddon will soon begin.
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This group isn’t part of the church, because this group had already suffered through the seven trumpets of God’s judgment/wrath onto the earth. The church, is not appointed to God’s wrath. But it’s still a huge honor to be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb:
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.” (Revelation 19:9)
The Gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest Rev. 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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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. 12:17
None of these martyrs, whether Jew or gentile, would be of the church because they’re coming out of God’s wrath. But, they’re saints and they seem to arrive in heaven just in time, for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. See:
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess. 5:9
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.” (Rev. 19:9)
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Harvest Chart
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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 (the second woe). Not even being tortured for five months by demonic locusts from the bottomless pit at the ‘fifth trumpet judgment,’ and not being able to die though wishing to, impressed them enough to call out for help to Jesus Christ, the true living God. Only later, after hearing the powerful testimonies of the Two Witnesses in Jerusalem, and even later when the beast comes out of the bottomless pit and kills them, and after seeing them resurrected 3.5 days later, followed by a great earthquake that destroys a tenth of the Jerusalem, did they finally get humbled and turn to Jesus Christ.
In Rev. 20, St. John sees the souls of the last martyrs, then he sees them come to life and reign with Christ for a thousand years!
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 it’s 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.
These are not the same as the temple 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, 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 who have actually been given over to the world Beast/Antichrist system, whoever those saints are, must be martyred by the enemies team. That’s the only way God will take them back.
18.23 Glory God Beyond
“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
That’s an example of gleanings of a holy batch, the Good Grape Harvest, that must be put to death to be redeemed back to God. Similar things happened with the Barley and Wheat Harvests.
This is my opinion and plea:
Let’s not assume that the elect souls who are redeemed by martyrdom from the gleanings of any harvest during the tribulation are any less worthy than the other saints. On the chart above, you’ll see that I have the Two Witnesses categorized as gleanings of the Wheat Harvest. If they’re Enoch and Elijah, who never died, they may have volunteered to come back and die that way. God may have had that very purpose in mind for them from the very beginning.
Through extraordinary pressure, like a crucible, a 1/3 remnant of 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 orGood 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 being 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)
Most of the Jews will be saved through desperate repentance under extremetribulation. 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 greatesttribulation 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.
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 newbeliever; 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.
19.3 Glory God Beyond, Jews
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 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
It’s 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 few months 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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Harvest Chart:
Rev. 14 shows two grape harvests; But only the second one is ‘grapes of wrath.’
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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 – 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’.) Joseph – All of Joseph’s older brothers became so jealous that they sold Joseph to traveling merchants, who dragged Joseph to Egypt. In Egypt, Joseph was mistreated and imprisoned, but eventually rose to become the right hand man of Pharaoh!
Joseph’s role is crucial! He’s the foreshadowing of the ultimate suffering servant. That’s Jesus Christ, as He was in His first coming. Joseph’s role embodied the ‘forgiving spirit’ and humility, which he maintained even after his rise to greatness. Joseph became the right hand of Pharaoh, who was the King of kings on this fallen earth at that time. 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) wives!
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The association with gentiles continues with the future descendants of 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!
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 with them in Babylon.
19.10 Glory God Beyond, Jews
The tribe of ‘Dan’ may be an 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.
Even the UN knows about the fallen angel portals. That’s why they have an off limits station there, a topic for another post! Israel just got control of it. (I added a link to the bottom of 28.Lucifer Impostor.)
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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 mankind, 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.’
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 prophesied descendant of Judah through the line of David, but not through Solomon, because Solomon turned to Baal worship.
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.
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Here’s a related, very interesting 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”
As for the part about the Jews who’ll awaken to everlasting shame, I’m assuming Daniel’s vision used ‘condensed time,’ including a forward glimpse at the Great White Throne Judgment event, where those coming to shame and everlasting contempt will have been resurrected at the completion of the Millennium.
We can check the harvest chart above and see that the owner’s portion of the Fruit or Good Grape Harvest doesn’t take place until Rev. 14 and the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest must have happened before that. So, it fits that those who slept in the earth and will awake to everlasting life mentioned in Rev. 12 and Daniel 12:2 are the first fruits.
Remember the Gleanings
19.14 Glory God Beyond, Jews
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 using the following rational: About 30% of people included in the Hall-of-Faith of Hebrews 11, are not sons-of-Jacob, nevertheless even some of those are most likely among the 24 Elders, such as Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Rahab and Job. So, likewise, there could be a number of gentiles who’ll become martyrs, because they 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; And, who are therefore harvested as part of the gleanings of the Good Grape Harvest. These last gentile martyrs are true Israelites by faith and must be grafted onto the Olive Tree of Israel through their martyrdom, because that’s the last 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:
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Revelation 15:2-3, 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.
Important Event that sets off the Entire ‘Good Grape Harvest’
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Although this section is a bit out of order because the Two Witnesses are raptured right before the first-fruits of the Good Grape Harvest, which I already described, I 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.
St. John finds himself transported and he’s told to measure the future third temple. Then the angel tells him about the Two Olive Trees and the Two Lamp Stands, who are the Two Witnesses. The angel tells St. John about them: That they’ll be killed when they finish their testimony when the beast ascends from the abyss, and that they’ll lay in the street of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 days while the world celebrates, but also that they’ll be resurrected in front of everybody. People will also hear God saying “Come up here.” They’ll be raptured. They’ll be seen by everybody as they go up in a cloud.
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See chart- It might seem strange that the Two Witnesses are the gleanings of the multinational Wheat Harvest, since right now we’re focusing on the Hebrew Israelites in this post. It’s worth noting that there’s not a single part of any harvest that doesn’t contain some of the Sons-of-Jacob/Hebrew-Israelites and/or Jews!
The Turning Point
After the Two Witnesses are resurrected, there will be a severe earthquake that destroys a tenth of Jerusalem killing 7,000 people. All these events will provoke many, especially eye witnesses in Jerusalem, to terror, which will cause a great number of them to turn to the one true God. At last they’ll give God Almighty all the righteous glory, in Jesus Christ’s name. They’ll acknowledge Him as their Messiah. And He’ll receive the glory that only He deserves! HALLELUJAH!
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 and he saw the Lamb who appeared to have been slaughtered in the center of His throne.” (Rev. 4:1)
At last, many will reach out to Jesus as their Messiah, and as God the Son, with terrible, deep, heart wrenching sorrow. 
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