Category: Saints

2.Tribulation Saints

~ gloriyahway

A special focus on the Tribulation Saints of the Sixth Seal and how it eventually lead me to the understanding of all the harvests. This topic has been the most challenging to articulate.

The verses: https://ref.ly/Re7.9-17

The sixth seal rapture timing viewpoint seemed to be the most neglected viewpoint for believers looking to prove just one harvest event, as I used to. It was the obvious conclusion to come to when studying the New Testament in the most basic and direct way, taking it at face value in order not to miss whatever might be straight forward. I took that approach because I needed to extract myself from all the opinions that were opposing each other and surrounding me on every side. What came to really stand out to me was how so many Bible teachers were ignoring the uncountable multitude of saints that St Paul saw standing in God’s throne room at the end of the sixth seal.

9After these things I looked, and this is what I saw: a vast multitude which no one could count, [gathered] from every nation and from all the tribes and peoples and languages [of the earth], standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Christ), dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands; 10and in a loud voice they cried out, saying, “Salvation [belongs] to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the [twenty-four] elders and the four living creatures; and they fell to their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and majesty and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might belong to our God forever and ever. Amen. 13Then one of the elders responded, saying to me, “These who are dressed in the long white robes—who are they, and from where did they come?” 14 I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” And he said to me, “These are the people who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” [because of His atoning sacrifice]. 15For this reason, they are [standing] before the throne of God; and they serve Him [in worship] day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them and shelter and protect them [with His presence]. 16They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any [scorching] heat; 17for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their Shepherd, and He will guide them to springs of the waters of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

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The Three Harvests

With time and closer inspection, I discovered that the sixth seal harvest, although by far the largest harvest of the body of Christ, is not the only harvest. I saw that my sixth seal harvest perspective was flawed; And although its ‘flaw’ seemed to be remedied in part by leaning preferentially on St. Paul’s teachings, I actually had to embrace the full complexity of the New Testament, piece by piece, to resolve all the issues. Only then did I come to understand that the core of the disagreements among Pastors, Bible teachers, scholars, saints and scholars came from the fact that the vast majority of them hold to the conviction that there’s only one harvest of saints.

But before I knew all that, and while my initial studies were still clearly pointing me to the sixth seal as the harvest of all of God’s new covenant saints, I began making basic preparations in order to survive the great tribulation of the 4th seal. (not God’s wrath which is the greatest tribulation that starts at the 7th seal) My preps were partly spiritual and partly physical, such as learning how to fish and garden. I stocked up on coffee, water, medicine and extra resources to help others, especially Christians, to make it through what I deduced would be about a year long trial.

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Then things changed – a personal note – preparing a ‘time capsule’ for the left behind:

After further study and prayer, I realized there’s also an earlier harvest for the bride of Christ, which most likely includes the bridesmaids. (See posts 1 and 18) I’ve been glad that some of the preps I’d made might become useful for those who’ll be left behind (hopefully to soon become tribulation saints); So I continued prepping somethings for them. But for myself, I came to focus on insuring that I am truly betrothed to Jesus Christ through obedience, abiding in Him and His word. Also of course, hearing His voice, bearing fruit for Him and doing the works He made for me, in order that I may be clothed with them for eternity.

Soon I discovered other watchers who were making kits for the left behind and I sort of joined them; I started to consider AlephTav.blog to be in part a service to the left behind, yet it’s also good to divert believers from getting left behind, for understanding the signs of the end-times and for resolving prophesies. I think we should all try to seek out individuals to whom the Lord might want us to leave other things, survival things; but truth is of the highest priority; “Man can not live by bread alone but on every word that comes out of the Mouth of God”(Matt. 4:4). Daniel 7:25 informs us that the Beast is going to try to eliminate Biblical calendrical knowledge by changing the ‘times and laws’ probably by rewriting Bibles. has already been adulterating online Bibles and a very wealthy Muslim family just purchased one of the largest Christian book companies. Woe to those who can’t tell the difference! The Bible warns about a ‘dessert of the WORD.’

So the early harvest for the bride and probably the bridesmaids that I came to focus on is: Jesus Christ’s Open Door for His Church of Philadelphia; I’ve been praying to be invited through His open door. He Himself is The DOOR .

I Jesus am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” John 10:9-11

Eventually this understanding completely took over for me. Although it wasn’t possible until I fully understood that the mistranslations of 2 Thessalonians 2 had deceived me into thinking that the bride/true church wouldn’t be redeemed until after the Antichrist sits in the holy place. See post:

7. Thessalonians Misstated

https://alephtav.blog/7-mistakes/

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But this post is not about the the harvest of Christ’s bride,

its about the harvest of the tribulation saints.

Situating the Sixth Seal Harvest:

… in the context of the fourth, fifth and the beginning of the sixth seal …

A quarter of humanity perishes at the fourth seal; The fifth seal show martyrs under God our Holy Father’s alter crying out for justice . . .

< 4th seal 5th seal >

Next, 144,000 Israelites are Sealed by Angels

with the Name of

God the Holy Father and the Holy Son

written on Their Foreheads.

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Only after that are the Tribulation Saints seen in Heaven

As the harvest of the trib. saints is separate from the harvest of the bride, (discussed above but proofs are on other posts), the harvest of the trib. saints is also separate from the harvest of the Jews .

When comparing parallel passages in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) to the very similar words in the Book of Revelation at the conclusion of the sixth seal, it was once mind boggling to me that I’d rarely heard the possibility of ‘a sixth seal harvest’ mentioned by Bible teachers, preachers or commentators. The idea itself wasn’t even broached, not even for the purpose of pointing out how similar its verses seems to the ones in the Olivet Harvest see below! Perhaps they’re afraid of the topic. It can’t be that they understand so clearly that they’re separate harvests to the point where they feel ‘far above’ even being interested in the topic, or that they just didn’t want to confuse people by bringing up the similarities for concern that it might make believers conflate the two harvests; Those can’t be the case since I’m talking about ‘the majority’ who are of the absolute conviction that there is only one harvest! as mentioned above

How Exactly Do Revelation’s Sixth Seal Verses Line up with the Olivet Discourse?

Here are the links if that’s hard to read: https://ref.ly/Re6, https://ref.ly/Mt24, https://ref.ly/Lk21 & https://ref.ly/Mk13

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Although the cosmic signs do seem to line up amazingly, there are actually 4 other very impressive earthquakes and many similar cosmic events in the sun, moon and stars, occurring in God’s final ~4.5 years before His Millennial Kingdom begins; Each time dramatic signs and events occur, they’ll frighten people. (But it’s worth noting that ‘frightening the people’ isn’t mentioned in Matt. 24 and Mark 13.) And since we’re teasing out every detail . . . The ‘redemption of the tribulation saints’ isn’t mentioned in Rev. 6. The Tribulation Saints are only seen as having arrived safely in God’s throne room, immediately after the sealing of the 144,000 (Rev. 7); If the Olivet Discourse were the same harvest, wouldn’t the 144,000 pure, virgin, obedient Israelite brothers of Christ sealed to remain on Earth safely have been mentioned by Jesus? Those are the 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel! Think about it; The Olivet Discourse was given by Jesus Christ the Jewish Messiah while sitting on the Mount of Olives with His select Jewish apostles, while they were looking down upon Jerusalem and the 2nd temple; Jesus indirectly gave them instruction for their future Jewish brethren, exact instructions about how they must flee Jerusalem when they see the end of time abomination of desolation being setup on the wing of the 3rd temple!

Here’s another divergence between the two harvests. It’s between the descriptive phrases ‘the heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up’ Rev. 6 vs ‘heavenly bodies will be shaken The Gospels. Only the Rev. 6:14 verse implies an actual displacement of Earth’s axis and/or orbit that will move every mountain and island from its place.

Although there are three ‘synoptic’ gospels, there was only one Olivet Discourse in which Jesus Christ revealed what’s to come for the Jews at the end of this age.

But the synoptic gospels have been recorded from three different vantage points and that’s not the same as three different witnesses from three separate prophesies. Now many modern Bible expositors hold the belief that Matthew Mark and Luke each hint at a different harvest: Matthew to the Jews, Mark to the tribulation saints and Luke to the bride of Christ. And although the individual points they make to defend their hypotheses sound intriguing, I’m unconvinced. Therefore, on this post, I’m sticking with the unmistakable things that apply only to the final harvest, the grape harvest of the Jews.

The Revelation 6: 12-17 verses dazzled me . . .

. . . so much at first, that they kind of blinded me when the frightened people say, “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?” Since I was a bit dazzled, I fully equated that with the Olivet Discourse harvest which says, . . . “when you see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with power and great glory.” But . . .

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Here’s the first thing I overlooked:

Revelation’s Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse can’t be referring to the same harvest because the Olivet Discourse clearly describes the Son of Man coming to harvest the Jews after the greatEST tribulation on Earth, (although God will provide a 1260 refuge for them after they flee) while Rev. 6:17 only says “the great day of their wrath has arrived,” which was announced right after the one who sits on the throne became visible to the people on Earth – showing that His wrath was just about to begin! And then very soon after that brief introduction to wrath, the tribulation saints were seen in heaven having escaped it.

These are the verses from the synoptic Gospels:

Olivet Discourse – Matt. 24:21,  “For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.” (Only after this, in verse 29, signs in the cosmos were mentioned.)

Olivet Discourse – Mark 13: 19-20, “ because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.  If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.” (Only after the Jews see the A.O.D. and flee, signs in the cosmos are mentioned in verse 24.)

Olivet Discourse – Luke 21:22, “For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.” (Only in verse 25 are signs in the cosmos mentioned and with the ‘tossing of the sea’ added.)

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There’s even more proof below, that the Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse Harvests are different, but first one more proof here:

No throne of God the Father appearing in the heavenlies to everybody on Earth was mentioned the Olivet Discourse accounts. So what could be more impressive than God Almighty’s throne appearing to all humanity from the heavens above? And what could be more unlikely than Jesus Christ not mentioning His Fathers’ very first appearance to all the people on Earth, in His longest and most detailed prophetic discourse?

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The Sixth Seal and the Olivet Discourse harvests are clearly not the same!

The rest of the explanations of why the Sixth Seal and Olivet Harvest are different are given below at marks: 2.15, 2.20, 2.26 and 2.28.

If scribes or Bible translators or their institutions held to the belief that the Olivet and the Sixth Seal harvests were the same, they would’ve been more likely use words to translated with that made the verses seem to be a bit more closely aligned than they otherwise would have.

I tried to cover the 5th seal martyrs and martyrs in general here,

But it turned out to be too lengthy to keep and too important to ignore, so it’s here:

The Gleanings are the Martyrs

https://alephtav.blog/the-gleanings-are-the-martyrs/

Three Harvests, each with three parts

The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from the ‘Bosom of Abraham’ in Hades when “He took captivity captive.” Also, my interpretation of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second one is the grapes of wrath.

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Back to: Why the Rev. Sixth Seal Harvest isn’t the Olivet Discourse Harvest:

The great multitude of Tribulation Saints:

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.

Revelation 7:9
So Important!: The Olivet Harvest is unlike the Barley Harvest (His bride) and Wheat Harvest (tribulation saints) in that it’s not for every nation, tribe, people and language. The Olivet Harvest is the harvest that’s overwhelmingly for the Jews. There’s a complete proof study here . . .

Watch for Jesus Christ:

https://alephtav.blog/watchjesus/

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Now finishing up this post with something related but a bit different . . .

Increased Biblical knowledge leads us to let go of a few cherished simpler explanations.

Biblical knowledge has been increasing dramatically, and through this new learning process many of us, including myself along with my family in Christ, locally and online in watcher communities, have come to fully understand from scripture, that there are three different crops of saints, each with first fruits, an owners portion and gleanings.

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This viewpoint fits best when the Book of Revelation is understood to be well ordered and chronological.

I see the Book of Revelation as an exceptionally orderly book in the sense that, when zooming out, it’s chronological, despite the fact that it contains one huge parenthetical section with symbolism that reaches back in time to the three ascensions of the body of Christ: First Christ’s own resurrected body ascended; Next, about 1,996 years later, His bride (and possibly His bridesmaids) ascended; And not long after that, His tribulation saints ascended. All those make up ‘the body of Christ’ who’ll rule Earth by Christ’ side with an iron rod. I used the past tense since the parenthetical Revelation 12 sign passages are a figurative summary only shown to St Paul after the Lord had already shown him many chronological future end times events, and that Christ’s bride and tribulation had already been taken off the earth before the parenthetical section. Together all true Christians are ‘the body of Christ and share in the unimaginably generous inheritance that God our Father has given His Son Jesus Christ. So why does the Revelation 12 sign start by showing the Body of Christ coming out of the woman ‘Hebrew-Israel’? It’s because that sets the stage for us to focus on the final crop of saints, the main part of the grape harvest of the Jews! The woman ‘Hebrew-Israel’ then immediately flees satan, who’s represented by the dragon in Revelation 12. Satan first tried to destroy Christ and then the body of Christ but was unsuccessful because both His body was caught up to heaven. Then Satan turns against the woman who runs to a safe place in the wilderness that God has prepared for her.

8/30/26 Update: 9 years, representing 9 months of gestation have passed since the very famous 2017 Revelation 12 sign appeared in the heavens. We believe that water broke on August 29 when the blood moon was in Aquarius. (“came by water and blood.” John 1 5-6) It’s time for Christ’s bride to be lifted up, likely on Sept. 11 ’26; I think His tribulation saints will follow within a year.

In addition to the great parentheses of Revelation 12, The Book of Revelation also uses a few simple temporal overlaps:

An example of a forward overlap: The chain of events released when Jesus breaks the first, second and third seals (horsemen) overlap each other combining to bring about the death of a quarter of humanity at the fourth seal.

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Also backward overlaps are common to storytelling: To tell a complex story people must consistently ‘go back’ and ‘pick up threads’ that were left off since it’s impossible to forward relate everything at the same time.

Diverging to the harvest of Christ’s bride and how it sets off the great tribulation and the harvest of His Tribulation Saints.

Understanding the timing: How the Open Door Harvest aligns with the climactic moment when the Lamb of God, the only worthy one in the universe to receive the scroll of the Deed to Earth from the hand of Holy Father Almighty, requires flexibility on our part. For example, if Christ’s tarry began before and continued on for awhile after what I call the Midnight Cry Event, which was the day He broke the first seal of the scroll, about 6 months before ‘the beginning of the end of the church age’ on April 9 ’24 AD see post 3, his bride might wonder what she should be doing now, while persevering through the final wait. I believe the bridesmaids are persevering too, those who have enough oil. Wouldn’t Jesus Christ want His bride to be working in order to edify and ready the bridesmaids, martyrs and tribulation saints for their respective roles? After all the role of the wife has always been to be the beloved helpmate of her husband. If the betrothal is modeled on ancient Jewish tradition, there’s a waiting period after the betrothal while the groom builds her a house; But I think there’s also another waiting period for the bride of Christ after the midnight cry. Symbolically that’s the time in His parable of the 10 virgins when the 5 unwise virgins went out buy more oil for their lamps, which were going out. Now His betrothed saints are not the very same as the wise virgins, but its all about entry to His marriage supper event in heaven. Since all 10 virgins fell asleep while waiting for the midnight cry, the thing that differentiated the bride might be that she never fell asleep (slipped back into living for the world). His bride’s been watching carefully for awhile now, and it seems that she’s being shown the glory of the meanings of the wait itself as well as of the stepping stones that have been marking the times of the wait, and why it’s magnificent, glorifying Jesus Christ even more!

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Many believers have been taught that Christ’s bride must be physically present in God’s throne room, before God our Father presents the Lamb of God with the scroll of the Deed to Earth. That’s why so many Christians think the 24 elders are the bride. Huh? The 24 elders can not be the bride, as the 24 elders sang a song to praise the Lamb of God for redeeming ‘them’ with His blood. Who do the 24 elders mean by the word ‘them’?

There are 7 very conspicuous blazing torches in God’s throne room in front of His throne, which were noted by St John in the 5th verse after the evaluation Jesus Christ gave regarding to the 7th ‘lamp stand’ the final church! After that, St. John saw the open door to heaven; In the next verse he saw a throne (in the center of which the Lamb who was slain will soon appear); In the third verse he described someone awesome on the throne and in the forth verse he saw the 24 elders surrounding the one on the throne. Then he saw the blazing torches or lamp stands. After that he saw a sea of glass followed by the four living creatures in the center around the throne. Next Father God holds out a sealed scroll with His right hand, but nobody in the universe is worthy to break it’s seals. St John cries and cries until one of the elders says:

Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. Rev. 5:5

Then the Lamb who was slain appears at the center of the throne surrounded by the 4 creatures and 24 elders worshiping Him. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne!

About the blazing lamp stands in front of God’s throne, does anybody think God needs firelight in order to see? Revelation specifically states that there will be no need for the sun and the moon on the New Earth; Although they’ll still exist, they’ll be ‘put to shame’ by the most holy light of Father God and Jesus Christ themselves. So lets consider the 7 blazing lamp stands/torches in the throne room of God, which St. John saw just two verses after he saw God sitting on the throne. . .

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The song that the 24 ‘elders’ sang, referred to ‘them,’ as those who were redeemed by Christ’s blood. . . How are ‘they’ represented in God’s throne room?

The following is the Greek word for ‘they.’ Almost every translation gets it right but both King James versions got it wrong by translating ‘it’ as ‘us’ when it literally means ‘not us’!

them {into}
αὐτοὺς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

Here’s one good study on it, that lists the ancient manuscripts by their exact reference numbers: Which translation for Revelation 5:10 is correct? https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/35808/which-translation-for-revelation-510-is-correct

How is Christ’s bride represented in God’s throne room until she arrives there in her glorified bodies? It’s the lamp stands of course! They’re presence represents the condition of Christ’s bride, while she remains on Earth, like a measuring device in which the flames constantly indicate her role in being the light of the earth, which is only possible when she allows the the Holy Spirit to work through her.

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The precedent was the Menorah. It Served Practically the Same Purpose in God’s Old Covenant Temple.

This is recorded in the Talmud . . .

. . . that from the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the menorah constantly blew out for 40yrs. until the temple was destroyed. The earthly temple was a reflection of God’s heavenly temple; They’re linked and that means there was also a seven branched menorah in God’s throne room reflecting what the Old Covenant temple priests were doing on Earth.

While in God’s throne room, St. John saw the seven fold spirit represented by 7 blazing torches before God’s throne (also reflecting the New Covenant betrothal). He wrote about it just verses after he’d seen Jesus walk among 7 lamp stands in his vision on the Island of Patmos. Then immediately he went up though the ‘Open Door’ to God’s Throne Room. St. John would have seen the bride of Christ standing there if she were actually present when the 24 elders burst into their famous song about Christ having redeemed ‘them’ (His bride and possibly His bridesmaids) with His blood.. After all, St. John later saw the uncountable number of Tribulation Saints in bodily form, standing in Gods throne room, wearing long white robes, singing songs of praise and waving palm branches in Rev. 7: 9-17.

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The very act of witnessing the blazes of the 7 lamp stands before God’s throne, as they simultaneously reached their radiant fullness must have been the indicator that Christ’s bride’s has made herself ready meaning it’s time for Jesus Christ, the Worthy One, to begin breaking the seals of the scroll; That’s what caused the 24 elders to burst into their most special song of praise!

7 Full Blazes . . .

. . . must mean that every one of the 7 church types will have Holy Spirit anointed members who are not grieving the Holy Spirit, even at the end of this age; They’ll be alive and actively burning forth the light of truth into this, dark world for the Lord! Those are the saints who’ll be consuming Him, THE WORD, and shining it forth. I think that’s what convinces Father God to hand the scroll to Jesus. I’m not saying that God wouldn’t have known about it without the lamp stands and the flames as the indicator. He’s all-knowing; I’m saying that the lamp stands/torches are also placed there for His pleasure and to show what’s important to Him. The lamp stands/torches also serve to continuously demonstrate to the all intelligent inhabitants of the third heaven, the state of the Christ’s bride at a single glance. There can’t be a Kingdom with only a King and a planet. A King requires subjects; When Jesus has His first, closest and most passionate large group of tested loyal subjects, His bride and bridesmaids, His Kingdom is ready to move forward! The scroll is the Deed to Earth, and the time for Him to begin breaking the seals will have arrived and so He will bring back the foundation (eden)! We can celebrate that now because it’s happening right now! We will miss that opportunity if we believe we must wait until we arrive in God’s throne room. (In my opinion)

24 Elders & Overflow from this post:

https://alephtav.blog/24-elders/

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3. The Midnight Cry Event

https://alephtav.blog/3-the-cry/

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15.Awesome Testimonies

~ gloriyahway

15.0 See the Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

Could Revelation’s Two Witnesses Already Be Here?

Scroll to the end for a speculative list.

The Awesome Testimonies Begin . . .

Jeff Morgan

(If the Two Witnesses are already here, he likely one of them)

Sociopath Atheist Tried to Kill His Dad

Instead Prison Changed His Life Bringing Him To Jesus

David Wood’s testimony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utgWFZBbFNw

Very short version of David Wood’s Testimony

https://www.christianlearning.com/sociopath-atheist-tried-to-kill-his-dad-instead-prison-changed-his-life-bringing-him-to-jesus/

Best Muslim Conversion to Christianity Witnesses!

Young Muslim Cries After Reading Jesus’ Words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQHral9hMfw

SEEKING ALLAH, FINDING JESUS:

Skip long introduction, jump to timestamp 12:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0D8Uz4oQck

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✝️ I was a Quran teacher… until one verse made me leave Islam: CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY

It’s been translated to English digitally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BWV-1–Ig

A Proud Young Jew Suddenly Faces Jesus In America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzIxNmC9MAM

If you think God doesn’t exist, WATCH THIS.

From the Living Waters channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RdltEO2gKg

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Jeff Cohen/Morgan

He’s Jewish evangelist who does most of his witnessing in the streets of Jerusalem.

I have wondered if he’s one of the Two Witnesses.

Below is his new site, since war came to Israel.

HIGHWAY 53 – by Jeff Morgan

https://www.youtube.com/@Highway53

Are Jews and Gentiles Saved Differently?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AnVYdzqRd0

Atheist MIT Professor Converts to Christianity After Discovering THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXsdGVawa0o

Below is the channel he used to work with:

So Be It YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/@SOBEIT32AD

Ex-Ultra-Orthodox Jew Asks WHY JESUS!? to Messianic Jew | Hebrew with English Subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7gxr5V0WQ

Jewish Man Meets Jesus in Jerusalem | Yuri’s Powerful Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSov2pmPqT4

Israeli Sees New Testament in the Old Testament! | Street Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6Q6agPAFY

Jewish Man Found Jesus in the Old Testament and Believes! | Dave’s Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhT0nM8hN8k

Israelis Accept New Testament and Deliver Message to Christians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEDZELtnR4g

Old Testament CONFIRMED His Faith In JESUS | Justin’s Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgPbA1yKDE

I’m taking a moment to share my wonderment about who the Two Witness of Revelation might be.

I believe the Two Witnesses are here now, so I’m starting this list of candidates.

https://www.crosswalk.com/church/pastors-or-leadership/christianity-questions-answers/could-revelations-two-witnesses-already-be-here.html

Jeff Morgan and Ash Maise

Ex-Orthodox Jew DEFENDS Christianity | with‪@AshMaiz‬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLFMD5oN1E

Jeff Morgan & Elisha Lazarus

(So Be It)

https://youtu.be/fAqXx1kS4X0

Jeff Morgan & Arielle Randle

(Jews for Jesus)

https://alephtav.blog/overflowp15/

Daniel L Maritz

(DLM Christian Lifestyle)

https://www.youtube.com/@DLMChristianLifestyle

5 Things Christians Need to Stop Saying https://www.youtube.com/@DLMChristianLifestyle/videos

Tipping Point

https://www.instagram.com/tippingpointnow

https://endtimes.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&coupon=593bafdb

Jimmy Evans

https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyEvans/videos

https://www.instagram.com/psjimmyevans/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/PsJimmyEvans

&

Mark Hitchcock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QyrraCSPA

https://inspiration.org/author/mark-hitchcock

There’s also . . .

Tiff Shuttlesworth

https://www.youtube.com/@TiffShuttlesworth-Podcast

Barley Harvest

https://www.youtube.com/@barleyharvestbride/search

Carter Conlon

general overseer of Times Square Church

https://www.carterconlon.com/

I removed those below either because they’ve used the star symbol that’s on the Israeli flag or something similar:.

Dov Schwarz of Watch Therefore

https://watchtherefore.tv/

Behold Israel with Amir Tsarfati

https://www.youtube.com/@beholdisrael

Barty Stagner

Pastor Tom Hughes

https://hopeforourtimes.com/

Great sermons, but once I saw an upside down cross on his website – It may have been a digital glitch.

15.3 See the Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

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16. Islam Dream Statue

https://alephtav.blog/16-statue/

Blessings and Keep Witnessing!

http://Alephtav.blog

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18.The Great Harvests

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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 them 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.

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

18.0 Harvests, See the Glory of God

Although the following is from the Olivet Discourse, this passage backs up the concept. Luke is considered, by many, to be the gospel to the bride; The following 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. So 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 34-36)

Many Bereans think, and 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. 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’ for Him, not living for the world. They’re eagerly awaiting and praying every day for our Lord and Savior to come. In Revelation 2-3, the seven types of churches are evaluated by Jesus Christ. It seems like, ultimately, some saints from each of them will also be brought through His open door; But as just mentioned, the promise was only given to the Church of Philadelphia, who seems to be 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.

18.1 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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, 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.

18.2 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 of it.

In St. John’s Rev. 2-3 vision, Jesus gave a stronger warning to two of the 7 church types. He said He’d 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 come to be eternally represented as Christ’s true church, the other six, at least as His bridesmaids. Perhaps some of those He will count as being of His bride also; I hope so. It’s not a value judgment, saints have different roles; for example the 24 elders, who are the first fruits of the same barley harvest, although not of His bride, have their own thrones in God’s throne room!

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 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?

18.3 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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

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 lamp stands begin blazing in unison, indicating that His 7 fold bride and bridesmaids are ready. and therefore that it’s time for Him to receive the scroll from His Father and begin breaking its seals!

It’s very 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 seems ready now, and hopefully with representatives from each of the 7 church types. (But, I’m praying more saints will wake up just before His Open Door Harvest. I don’t see any reason why that can’t be, as long as His bride’s still on Earth, even if Jesus has already 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.”

18.4 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 asked Father God to send the Holy Spirit down to Earth, 10 days after His Ascension. Also, Shavuot is a pilgrimage holy convocation, meaning it requires a return trip, and we know that the Holy Spirit must return back to heaven along with the saints.

For a brief overview of God’s 7 holy-convocations/appointed times see:

5. Trumpets Herald World Events:

https://alephtav.blog/5-trumpets/

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 watches that we should be aware of, ones that don’t center upon the temple of God. (See post 1.)

I’ve felt His nearness

and

don’t want to overlook any possibility!

18.5 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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

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/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.

18.6 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom. (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 wants 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 his Temple.

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 later, when the rest of the church is harvested.

As mentioned above, and this is speculation: If Jesus brought the sheaf of souls 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.

18.7 Harvests, See the Glory of God

Shavuot/Pentecost, God’s fourth holy convocation is actually the day in which the first fruits of the wheat harvest is presented to God in His temple; But, it also marks the fulfillment of the barley harvest; So Pentecost/Shavuot is also the model for the fulfillment of the barley harvest of saints, including the gleanings of the barley saints who must be martyred. The greatest martyrdom will happen at the 5th seal, immediately before the first fruits of the wheat harvest of saints when the 144,000, are sealed; 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 entire 7 year period on Earth at the end of this age. Nevertheless, since time is utterly elastic when traveling in the cosmos, it’s still possible that the bride will spend exactly 7 years in God’s heaven, as per God’s will, before she returns to Earth with Jesus. The first seal’s events don’t cause great worldwide tribulation, since they’re the releasing of 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, more and more, but the full impact isn’t fully reached until the process reaches the fourth seal, which is when multitudes start dying from the sword famine, pestilence and wild animals with the march of the black horse. This is supported by Matt. 24:7, which informs us that the famines will occur ‘in various places.’ I think the ‘beginning of sorrows’ becomes 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 let loose into motion when He broke the first three seals. That’s opposed to the trumpet and bowl judgments, which are the wrath of God. Breaking the seals are mainly God way of allowing the world to progress toward the Beast System. God’s harvest of the core of Christ’s ‘true church’ will take place just before the ‘hour of trial which will come upon the whole Earth sometime after Jesus Christ breaks the 4th seal. That’s also when the greatest part of the Holy Spirit’s power will be removed from Earth.

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 all the 5th seal martyrs arrive under Father God’s alter! Hallelujah! Perhaps we’ll watch King Jesus break the fifth seal when we arrive in God’s throne room!

18.8 Harvests, See the Glory of God

The Gleanings of the Barley Harvest

Fifth Seal Martyrs

The gleanings are the part of a harvest that‘s 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 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.”

18.9 Harvests, See the Glory of God

2. The Wheat Harvest

The First Fruits of the Wheat Harvest

The 144,000

18.10 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 four seals, 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 begins. The tribulation saints are part of the body of Christ and they include both gentiles and Hebrew Israelites, a fact that’s underscored by God requiring two loaves of leavened bread as the first fruits offering of the wheat harvest on Shavuot. https://biblehub.com/q/Why_use_leaven_in_Lev_23_17_loaves.htm

(I call God’s Wrath the ‘greatest tribulation’ to avoid confusion.)

18.11 Harvests, See the Glory of God

 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 end of the sixth seal after the ‘great tribulation’ has reached it’s conclusion, the martyrs have been killed and the 144,00 have been sealed. Then there’s announcement of God’s wrath:

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

18.12 Harvests, See the Glory of God

The Two Witnesses will come on the scene 1,260 days before the Beast (King, Caliph, Mahdi, Emperor of the Beast Empire) comes up from the abyss after having been greatly empowered there. That means the two witnesses must arrive very early in Daniel’s 70th week. A careful analysis of the passages reveal that St. John only reports on the actual whereabouts of the Two Witnesses as they’re killed and lay in a street of Jerusalem for three days;That’s before they’re resurrected and raptured from that very same spot. The Two Witnesses were not ever described as having been inside the temple courts or on the temple mount. Although it seems to us that they’ll be drawn there. The angel told St. John all about the two witnesses right after having instructed him to measure the 3rd temple of God, but not the outer court because the gentiles will be trampling it. That’s why most people assume that the two witnesses will begin and carry out most of their their ministry around the temple. Because of that assumption, and because their foreshadowers Zerubabbel and Joshuah were Jews, the narrative that believers have clung to, 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 interpret that as meaning they must also prophesy and preach to Christians including to Christ’s bride and bridesmaids in the beginning, since they’ll begin their ministry before she’s gathered.

The 7 church types or church models in Rev. 2-3, hold up the 7 lamps – that’s reminiscent of one menorah. God has two betrothals in the Bible, one in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament. The two menorahs represent the two brides/wives, the Israelites betrothed to Father God YHWH and the true church, which is a part of the body of Christ, betrothed to God the Son Jesus Christ. (As I edit this on August 4 ’26: Assuming there’ve been no mis-translations of the text, the two witnesses began their ministry 2.3 yrs. ago. So they must be hiding in plain sight on the World Wide Web! That’s according to my calculations, see post 4. The Countdown.)

Zechariah wrote about the original two witnesses: Joshua and Zerubabbel:

And interestingly, there’s no record of their deaths. In Zechariah’s vision he saw that they were introduced to their Savior Messiah as the ‘chief corner stone’ (with 7 eyes on it); That’s the chief corner stone of the temple they were building. So, yes; I think they’ll be here, on Earth as the 3rd temple is being built. And, in the same way that Elijah returned as the spirit of John the Baptist, for anybody who’d believe it, I think they grew up on Earth. I think at some point they’ll became completely and continuously filled with the Holy Spirit; That means they’ve been granted virtually unlimited defensive powers by God; But, I believe they’ll only use those powers in the final year and a half before they’re killed. Unfortunately, just as the Jews recognized neither Elijah nor their Messiah, I suspect that most ‘Christians’ won’t recognize the Two Witnesses. I’ve started a list of possibilities on post 15.

4. The Countdown

https://alephtav.blog/4-last7yrs/

(at mark 4.28-4.29, then please read entire post.)

 

18.13 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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.

18.14 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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)

18.15 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 Old Testament saints. They’re the first fruits of the Good Grape Harvest.

18.16 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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.”

18.17 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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.

18.18 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 . . .

18.19 Harvests, See the Glory of God

.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, the body of Christ. All those who follow Jesus Christ are considered to be her offspring also, because they abide in Jesus.

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18.20 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 some Bibles in their hideouts as they’re trying to dodge the beast; They’re 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)

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 on Jesus Christ’s name 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, killing 7,000, did they finally get humbled and turn to Jesus Christ!

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

18.21 Harvests, See the Glory of God

Chart: The 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:

As mentioned above, 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.

18.22 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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 had been dedicated to God. But, God has commanded in Torah for the corners 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.

18.23 Harvests, See the Glory of God

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

Note

19. Sons of Jacob

https://alephtav.blog/19-the-jews/

Blessings, and Stay Awake!

http://Alephtav.blog

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20.Kingdom Sheep

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Separation of the Sheep from the Goats

Many people will physically survive the Day of the Lord. God Almighty says He’ll cut the days of His wrath short to save His elect, otherwise no flesh would survive.

https://www.biblehub.com/matthew/24-22.htm

20.0 Sheep, Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

Who will make it through when God’s Wrath is cut short?

Immediately before the Millennial Kingdom begins, a unique type of ‘judgment’ event will take place for those who remain alive on Earth. Those being judged are referred to as being from ‘the nations,’ which would normally mean ‘not Israel,’ but after 722 BC the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel became distributed among them. That seems to mean that ‘these sheep’ will also include many Sons of Jacob, especially those from the tribe of Ephraim.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A31-46&version=NIV;KJV

What happens immediately before ‘the separation of the sheep and the goats’?

ARMAGEDDON

After Jesus Christ’s spectacular, righteous victory at Armageddon, the final war, He’ll throw the Beast and False-Prophet into the Everlasting Lake of Fire, which God the Father had long ago prepared for Satan and His fallen angels. (Rev. 20:10)

SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT & GOATS ON HIS LEFT

Then He’ll call all the remaining people of the nations to Him and separate them into two groups, the sheep on His right and goats on His left. Only the sheep will be allowed to enter the Millennial Kingdom. Eternal punishment is the wage of the goats.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.'”

Matt. 24:34

20.1 Sheep, Glory God Beyond

THE SHEEP

“YOU WHO ARE BLESSED OF MY FATHER.” I find that to be quite remarkable! They’re the mortals who’ll populate Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom, and they’ll be given greatly extended life spans. Sometimes, I call the sheep the ‘select’ to differentiate them from the other ‘elect,’ especially the ones who made the journey to heaven. The amazing thing is that the Book of Matthew doesn’t say that these sheep ever came to faith in Jesus Christ, even through their experiences during the Wrath of God! It only says . . .

. . . in order to be selected, they must have been merciful to Jesus’ brothers and have not taken the Mark of the Beast!

(Modern translations say ‘brothers and sisters’ or ‘brethren.’)

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-12-3/

For important notes on Jesus Christ’s Selection Process, see:

21. Jesus’ Brothers

https://alephtav.blog/21-brothers/

20.2 Sheep, Glory God Beyond

Regarding gender, females are included:

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. So, being Jesus’ brother must really mean being in Him, of His spiritual family, and part of His body.

Compare this to the fact that the bride of Christ is made up of all the mature, repentant believers in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, regardless of gender.

I hope no one will allow satan to make ‘gender’ a false stumbling block to their salvation.

It may also be useful to take into account that Hebrew words have no capital letters, and the Hebrew word ‘adam’ meant ‘humankind or mankind’ even before God gave the name ‘Adam’ to the individual male who He set apart into the Garden of Eden.

If gender is a big issue for any reader, just know that most languages have historically used the masculine gender as the default when talking about people groups that contain both genders. It’s not Bible specific.

Take heart, God said the following in the general ‘sixth day’ creation passages:

“So God created mankind in His own likeness, in the likeness of God He created them; male and female He created them. God blessed them ….”

Genesis 1: 27-28

Gender details would be too distracting to get into here. . .

. . . such as the fall of Adam and its effects on all his descendants, including us, because of God’s subsequent curse on Satan and both genders. HAVE FAITH that we will witness the true beauty of God’s plan for marriage, and the meaning of gender roles when He returns.

20.3 Sheep, Glory God Beyond

The 10 Lost Tribes and Kingdom Sheep

I mentioned above that they’d been scattered among the nations, but who are they?

They’re the tribes of the House of Israel, the Northern Kingdom after King David’s cruel grandson caused the kingdom to be divided.

The Bible frequently refers to them as Ephraim, the name of the dominant tribe.

Dan is the tribe that’s left out of the 144,000 individual sons of Jacob who were seen in St. John’s vision as being sealed on their foreheads with the names of God the Father and God the Son after Jesus breaks the sixth seal of the scroll of the Deed to the Earth (Rev. 7:4-8). From the beginning, the clans of the tribe Dan didn’t hold on to the land inheritance that God Almighty gave them. They were drawn to a place called the ‘gates of hell’ at the foot of Mt. Hermon where the shrine of the false God ‘Pan’ was located. The fallen angels had originally descended onto the top of that very mountain. It’s only speculation, but they may have sacrificed all their children to Baal and/or corrupted their own DNA with something nonhuman. Some people think the antichrist will be of the tribe of Dan: https://www.britam.org/dan.html

UN is Hiding Earthshaking Evidence for the Existence of the WATCHERS: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3sgdocJbJQ

Ephraim was the younger of the two sons of Joseph:

Genesis 48:19 … his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.


Hosea 7:8 Ephraim mixes with the nations

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

Joseph’s only Wife was Egyptian:

Joseph’s only sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, ended up being adopted by Jacob, thus elevating their status to heads of ‘the tribes of Israel.’ (If we include Levi, the ‘set apart’ priestly tribe, there were 13 tribes until Dan disappeared.) Ephraim and Manasseh replaced Joseph, in name only, for a long while. It was a blessing to Joseph in posterity, because he fathered a double tribe. But, mysteriously, in Rev. 7:8, Joseph’s name returns. It replaces Ephraim’s name in the 144,000!

Since ‘Joseph’ and his wife Asenath foreshadowed the suffering Messiah, and His (mostly) gentile bride, and Ephraim their son is the main tribe that mixed with the gentile nations – from whom many individuals were later redeemed by the grace of Jesus Christ, this may be beyond very interesting to Christ’s bride! Goose bumps! But, even from among those of ‘Ephraim’ who never followed Jesus, there will be many included among the sheep. To the best of my understanding, they’re a special category of sheep who will enter Jesus Christ’s kingdom in shame, because they were the ones who were most accountable to God; They should’ve known better.

20.4 Sheep, Glory God Beyond

It’s my understanding that they, and perhaps all the sheep, will have to follow the Old Covenant Law since they were not ‘saved by faith’, but only by God’s Almighty’s great mercy and His fidelity to the unilateral promises He made to Abraham.

Again, it’s not necessary to be descended from Ephraim to be one of God’s ‘select’ sheep. In order to be selected as a sheep, one only must’ve been merciful to Jesus’ brothers and to have not taken the mark-of-the-Beast.

Jeremiah 31

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031&version=NIV That’s is a very long Bible chapter, but it’s beautiful. It contains all or at least many of the promises of God to restore Ephraim.

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Will there be any from the Southern Kingdom, the House of Judah, among the sheep? ?

I think so, because even though there would’ve already been a Good Grape Harvest of Jews, in which many saved Jews will have been taken to heaven with Jesus Christ to meet YHWH! Hallelujah! After the good grape harvest is completed, there will be a die hard group of Jews who thought they could fight the abomination of desolation on their own. They won’t flee to the mountains or be martyred. But, somehow they’ll resist taking the mark-of-the-Beast and at the last instant, before sure defeat and assimilation into the Beast, they’ll call on the name of Jesus Christ!

Instantly, their Savior appears to them overhead, the sky is filled with His Greatest Glory! He’s accompanied by millions of faithful saints who love Him and myriads upon myriads of holy angels!

Mighty to Save!

20.5 Sheep, See the Glory of God

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21. Jesus’ Brothers

https://alephtav.blog/21-brothers/

Blessings and Stay Awake!

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21.Jesus’ Brothers

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 The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matt. 25:40

21.0 See the Glory of God

All Jesus Christ’s Disciples are His brothers . . .

. . . yet also in the world are His biological brothers, the Sons of Jacob (Hebrew Israel). God has promised to save a remnant of them to represent all the Sons of Jacob, but the way in which it will happen out is multifaceted. It began with the promises God Almighty gave to Abraham because of his outstanding faith:

The Doctrine of the Remnant and the Salvation of Israel in Romans 9–11

https://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/documents/articles/24/24.htm?x=x

. . . First an overview:

All 12 Apostles are Sons of Jacob – they share DNA and historical heritage

11 are Jesus Christ’s True Brothers

Judas, not a brother .

21.1 Glory God Beyond

In the very end, only those Sons of Jacob who not only believe in but those who also love Jesus their Messiah (Christ) will be counted as Jesus’ brothers. But, there’s no way for us to know which of the Sons of Jacob those will be. Most of them don’t themselves know who they are yet! It’s somewhat comparable to the church, where were there are members who are tares among wheat; We shouldn’t presume to know whose truly saved, so we treat all members the same.

Most biological brothers of Jesus Christ the Messiah, those among the Sons of Jacob, won’t emerge as saints until sometime between the middle and the end of the Time of Jacobs Trouble/The Day of the Lord.

It all started, with Abraham:

Hosea 9:10, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors (Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob) it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.”

That it was because of their FAITH, as explained in Hebrews 11:8-19.

21.2 Glory God Beyond

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For they were looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on Earth. People who say such things show that they’re looking for a country of their own. If they’d been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

21.3 Glory God Beyond

Because of Abraham’s outstanding faith, God gave Abraham a promise through his wife Sarah, that through their son Isaac and his offspring, all the peoples of Earth would be blessed. This is the underlying theme of the Old Testament. Jesus Christ is the offspring of Isaac through whom, by faith, people from all nations will be saved. Isaac’s son Jacob, just prior to his death, prophesied that the one to whom the allegiance of all nations will be, would come from the Tribe of Judah.

By the way: When Abraham and Sarah lost faith for a brief period, when they were about 100 yrs. old, still with no child, they agreed with each other to bring a child through Sara’s handmaid Hagar. But, then God Almighty made it clear that His promise will only be through Isaac, not through Ismael who was Hagar the handmaid’s son.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year. (Genesis 17:21)

21.4 Glory God Beyond

Sarah was Barren but God Almighty Made a Miracle:

Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband, says the LORD. (Isaiah 54:1)

What was Isaiah talking about? How is it that a woman who doesn’t bear in childbirth can have more children? There are layers of meaning to this and two of them involve the question – Who are Christ’s Brothers? But, first I need to mention the symbolic meaning of Sarah vs Hagar given in Galatians 4 because it exactly matches the Isaiah verse above:

Sarah is the Model for the New Jerusalem, our Spiritual Mother!

(Galatians 4: 24-26) “These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia (under the law) and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery (under the law) with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.

Post 11.The Fig Tree Generation, to see what kind of ‘fruit’ God really requires people to produce: https://alephtav.blog/11-figgen/

21.5 Glory God Beyond

Other specifics regarding: Who are Christ’s Brothers?

If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:29)

Christ is ‘the seed’ in the singular grammatical form but the body-of-Christ is ‘the seed’ in its collective grammatical form.

I (Jesus) will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. (John 17:11)

21.6 Glory God Beyond

The Galatians 3:29 verse above shows that Abraham’s seed includes the ‘spiritual’ seed by which multitudes upon Earth will be reborn to become eternal ‘Children of God.’ It’s the ‘seed-of-faith,’ of those who abide in THE SEED Jesus Christ!

It’s never the ‘biological only’ children who inherit God’s Kingdom!

The saints will receive immortal bodies; They’re not biological bodies as we know them. Only God’s spiritual children, who’re called out from among the biological creatures, will be adopted. Those who’ll be reborn are a minority, to say the least. The rest of humanity is already dead in their sin. (Ephesians 2:1)

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, (satan and his dark angels) the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But, because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:1-10

21.7 Glory God Beyond

21 Bible Verses about Spiritually Dead:

https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Spiritually-Dead

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit in-corruption. (1 Corinthians 15:50)

We’ve Come Full Circle

He (Jesus) will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left; How does He decide which side to put the sheep on? . . . Matt. 25: 33, 40

 The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward. Matt. 10:42

 

21.8 Glory God Beyond

Since Israel’s currently at war, now is a very good time for believers and non believers alike to apply the compassionate treatment to Jesus’ brothers, just mentioned above. This is despite their present state of national rebellion against God. We can’t judge them, as we were once dead in our sins; Christ was tortured and died for us while we were still sinners.

An in depth look at the words ‘seed’ and ‘called.’

Who are we?

The word ‘called’ has a double meanings in Genesis.

So the brothers of Jesus include children of Abraham through Isaac, some by faith and some, in a sense, by biology; at least until the Time of Jacobs Trouble/Day of the Lord finally separates out the final true brothers from among his merely biological brothers.

Although the lineage is also through Jacob, I’m focusing on ‘Isaac’ because there’s a double entendre regarding the word ‘called’.

But, God said to Abraham, “for in Isaac your seed shall be called.” Genesis 21:12KJV

21.9 Glory God Beyond

CALLED! There’s such a thing as ‘spiritual seed’ who are the future believers who will be called by Jesus Christ.’

The other Crucial Word with more than one Meaning is ‘SEED.’

Only in the King James Version is the Hebrew word for ‘seed’ translated as seed, which can be both singular and collective. Holy Spirit led Bible commentators have discerned about five shades of meanings of the word ‘seed.’

There’s some contention about how Paul emphasized the singular, ‘non-collective’ aspect of the word ‘seed’ in Galatians, but since we’re trying to answer the question Who are Jesus’ brothers – it’s the collective use of the word that matters here.

In the collective, ‘seed’ refers to the vast group of individual saints within the one Body of Christ, they’re Isaac’s spiritual descendants, those individuals who are Called by Jesus! But, it may also include Isaac’s biological offspring, some of whom are merely called Jesus’ brothers, in name only.

21.10 Glory God Beyond

And He brought him (Abraham) out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and He said, Thus shall thy seed be. Genesis 15:5

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 13:16

The full understanding of God Almighty’s promises to Abraham isn’t simple to tease out.

Topping off this post with something I just discovered:

It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor and put everything under their feet.” In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. (Hebrews 2:5-11)

21.11 See the Glory of God

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22. Mystery Babylon

https://alephtav.blog/22-babylon/

Blessings and Keep Watching!

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30. All Glory to the Lamb

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Glory, glory, glory to Jesus Christ!

Death could not hold Him! He’s the exact likeness of God in the flesh. He was and is forever sinless! Anybody who apprehends this fact, who believes in Him and continues to have faith until the end will be covered by His Holy blood; They will appear completely justified in the eyes of our Holy Heavenly Father.

They’ll be exempted from the second death and will be adopted into His Holy family to be loved and made prefect for ever and ever.

The Suffering and Glory of the Servant

See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him—his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness— so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him.

Isaiah 53 1-12

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?  For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

. . . He raised Christ from death and let him sit at his right side in heaven. (Eph. 1:20)

Jesus Christ will give crowns to those who love His appearing.

All glory to the True Living God, who created this magnificent universe through the living WORD, who is Jesus Christ our ever-loving Savior. His glory shines through even though His creation’s been corrupted by satan, fallen angels, the Nephilim and humanity.

Until then we fight – spiritual warfare.

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6)

Glory to our Almighty Holy Heavenly Father, in the name of His Son Jesus Christ who is the Living Word through whom He spoke the universe in to existence. And He is the promised Messiah of Israel who will save the whole world. He’s our Lord and Savior, who took our sins upon Himself and absorbed the just wrath of our Holy Father, on account of our sins . . . unto unspeakable suffering . . . unto to death. And even worse than that, there was a small fraction of time when He had to be separated from His Father God.

((( spiritual warfare )))

One of my favorite songs:

Charity Gayle – Thank You Jesus for the Blood (Live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhU-Omwg2rU

Radio only version

https://youtu.be/QBKiDQmEH00

We’ll see Him intimately, face to face, and will feel safe. He’ll live among us and we’ll experience His glorious light and love forever and ever in the new heavens and the new Earth that He’s going to create right after the Millennium.

Nonstop Traditional Hymns Compilation | Calm Christian Worship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I2azKt3a6w

Wait On You, Kingdom Sound Worship Night 2025 Waymaker

https://youtu.be/_9zksw7fyAk

We’ll see the Glory of our Holy Father, our Creator, who breathed life into us.

THE BRIDE of CHRIST

In Jesus Christ, God Himself suffered for us and died in our place. He covered our sins with His Holy Blood. There’s no greater love! He asks for us to love Him back, to consume Him (His word), and to also love and to forgive each other in this life, leaving all vengeance to Him. He will vindicate righteously.

Christly Music

https://alephtav.blog/christly-music/

Blessings and keep watching!

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The Savior

To reach me by Email: Taylor.blaise777@goldfishgateway.com

Final reminder:

Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

1 Corinthians 6 18-20

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