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When I saw the scripture posted by Steven yesterday in Revelation 12:13-17, I saw it as an opportunity to explain the Harvest of Israel and whom they represent.

There are three Harvest in Israel. In Nissan was the Barley crop, which you addressed, So what happened at that first Harvest? Wasn't it the First Fruit Crop which Christ fulfilled along with those He brought with Him out of the Grave. That crop is harvested. There won't be anymore "First Fruits". The Apostle John spoke of that time, of which was to take place at the time of the First Fruit Harvest.

Now, we must go to the next Harvest, which is the Wheat Harvest, which in Tisri. Why do we look to the Wheat Harvest as being important? Because it is laden with the Tares growing among them. The wheat is the ecclesia. The tares are those who DO NOT make up the ecclesia.

The Rapture, which we know takes place just as we are told in I Thess. 4:16-17, which is the Resurrection of the Dead first and then the Living, takes place at the Second Coming of Yahshua the Christ to meet Him in the air. Every eye will see him and it is not a secret event as we have been taught for too many years. So, who is it that gets translated? It is the Wheat, who make up the Elite. We will get back to that a bit later but next.

There is the 3rd Harvest which is the Grape Harvest. Who would be represented in the Grape Harvest where the grapes are put into the Wine Press of His Wrath?

It is not the Believers/Wheat. So who? These are ones that pre-tribulation teachers have mistakenly kept saying are the church because of the scriptures that speak of one taken, one left. That is not a Rapture scripture but a harvest of the wicked to be removed. They are the only ones totally removed...where? Into the Winepress.


OK, NOW BACK TO THE WHEAT HARVEST: Who is it that gathered the Wheat/Elect? Wasn't it the Angels that gathered them from the four corners of the Earth? These are gathered by the Wings of a Great Eagle, who is the Power of the Lord, also likened to often as a Mother Hen who tenderly covers her chicks with her wings.

They weren't take up to Heaven like we have been taught but are kept safely in a place where the A/C cannot get to them. They are the ones who keep the commandments of God and are called by His Name. These are the ones spoken of in Revelation 12:13-17 (posted below) The A/C decides to go after the rest of Saints. And who are they?

Those would be the lukewarm believers, fence sitters... Who weren't seen as the Elect by the Lord at the time He had his angels gather the Elect from the four corners of the Earth.

So, what do we understand from these three Harvests?

1. The Nissan Harvest of Barley/First Fruit has already taken place

2. The Wheat Harvest are the Elect gathered by the Angels to be taken to a place in the Wilderness where the AC cannot reach them.

3. The Grape Harvest are those that make war against the Saints and the newly converted Jews of the Southern House of Judah who have finally called out to the Lord who will return to them when they acknowledge Him.

A. We do not know the year of this Resurrection of the Dead and the Living, only surmise by the length of time given to the A/C once he is revealed.

B. We do know that the Elect are not appointed unto the Wrath of A/C or God and are stored in safety (perhaps in the store-house or barn as referred to for crops...perhaps Petra since all these events center around the Land of Israel, which is called God's Land).

In fact, take a look at John 17:15 "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."

If Christ was having His apostles teach a rapture, why would He ask His Heavenly Father NOT TO TAKE THEM OUT but to keep them from evil?

It becomes so obvious that they will stay here on earth but kept safe from the Evil to come. People will say, "Why would you want to stay here during the Tribulation?"

Please listen pre-tribbers, it isn't our choice, it is the Word of God that tells us and are you going to say that Yahshua didn't mean that when He prayed that they(His) be kept here but from the Evil to come? Only at the Resurrection will the change come from mortality to immortality.

C. Before the Elect are gathered, there is the great apostasy taking place and the A/C revealed so that we all know who he is and not guessing. But when He comes, he is given 3 1/2 years to "continue" during which time, he will have a temple built for himself (Masonic Temple after the order of Solomon's Temple) He will appear as a Savior of the world promising peace. Only those that will bow down to him, take his mark will have peace. The rest that did not will be the martyrs referred to in the Bible that will be added unto the countless other martyrs who ask, "How long...?"

I think the church has a tendency to think everything is being fulfilled NOW. They fail to sift through the historical events that have already taken place.

Three Harvest; First is fulfilled, Second will be the Elect taken into safety & the Third deals with those that will be removed into the Winepress of God's Wrath.

Gerlinda


Rev. 12:13-17

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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