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Post by boraddict on Mar 30, 2018 1:01:04 GMT -6
Recently I learned that we are currently in the barley harvest and it applies to the Passover. Later on we will be at the wheat harvest that applies to another high day in the Hebrew calendar. Lastly there will be the grape harvest in the fall.
All men at the time of Christ were required to go to Jerusalem in celebration of these three high days. Most years these high days would not fall on the sabbath (sundown on the 6th day to sundown on the 7th day).
I was thinking about Chapter 14 of Revelation and that the grape harvest is in Verses 14:17-21. This would mean that the wheat harvest is in Verses 14:14-16 and the barley harvest took place prior to this at the beginning of the chapter.
This would mean that the barley harvest is the harvest of the saints, the wheat harvest is a second harvest of the saints, and the grape harvest is the harvest of the ungodly.
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Post by douwant2go2heaven on Mar 30, 2018 2:28:38 GMT -6
Blessings! The order of the resurrection was laid out by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. Christ was the first fruits of the resurrection when He rose on the feast of first fruits to fulfill the barley harvest. The Bible also says in Matthew that other saints arose.
“51And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.” Matthew 27:51-53
The next harvest in the order of the resurrection is the wheat harvest. Over and over and over and over again in the scriptures the church is likened to wheat which will be harvested at the time the earth is threshed when the day of the LORD begins.
The grape harvest is for the vine of Israel who come to faith at the end of Jacobs trouble. They are the gleanings and the few berries left in the uppermost branches. Believing gentiles who refused the mark of the beast are also included in that group.
The destruction of Damascus, which happens when the day of the LORD begins shows both the wheat harvest taking place at the time of Damascus destruction and the grape harvest at the end of the tribulation. See here:
”1An oracle concerning Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of Aroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim,
and the kingdom from Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the LORD of hosts.
4And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the LORD God of Israel.
7In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 8He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense. Isaiah 17:1-8
The wheat harvest is in verse 5 and the grape harvest is in verse 6. Amen.
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Post by klb on Mar 30, 2018 7:37:46 GMT -6
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Post by rt on Mar 31, 2018 7:19:42 GMT -6
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Post by boraddict on Apr 2, 2018 15:29:40 GMT -6
Thank you RT. I will take a closer look at your thread when I have time. I had not realized that Easter was instituted into the Catholic Church around 350 AD and that it came from a non Christian background. Afterwards, Easter was passed on to all other Christian denominations. So going back to the Torah, it says we are to have the Passover as a remembrance. It may be the case that since celebrating Easter is more lucrative than celebrating the Passover, then our capitalist culture pushes Easter. Nevertheless, the Savior celebrated Passover and not Easter which was around at that time but in other cultures. Thus, my family has made a change over to celebrating Passover; however, not as the Jews do but as outlined in the Torah. My family does not know that I have thrown away all the Easter garb as well as Halloween and soon the Christmas stuff will be gone. These other holidays are also not included in the Torah but originated outside of Christianity in the worship of false gods and was brought into Christianity at some point in time. |
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