The Harvest Was Already White
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me,
and to finish His work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and
then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and
look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who
reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he
who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying
is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”"
Jesus finished the harvest.
He sent his apostles to the field, BACK then to reap what they did not sow.
All the prophets whom Israel killed, were the ones who sowed into the vineyard, and now the apostles and his disciples went forth to bring forth fruit of the Kingdom, fruit that 1st century Israel did not bring forth.
The fruit was the believing Jews and the Gentiles from many nations...
The Harvest is not 2000 years in the making, much less four months. Christ said don't say it was four months back then, and we turn it around and make it 2000 years. The Harvest was already white BACK then.
John the Baptist stated that Christ was ready to harvest and in fact had the winnowing fork in His Hand...
Mat 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire
This was connected to the wrath to come... the burning of the chaff.
Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
That there is an "audience" related connection between the harvest and the "wrath to come" is evident from Matt 3:12.
Jesus gives us a slightly different view point of the tares and wheat of John's "gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff."
Mat 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Mat 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
This is an obvious allusion to 1st century destruction Jerusalem.
The tares, the unbelieving Jews were destroyed, gathered into the barn, the city, and burned, over 1.5 million Jews died as the temple mount blazed with fire.
The wheat were taken out, as the believers escaped to Pella.
The wedding/harvest were a 1st century phenomena.
He sent his apostles to the field, BACK then to reap what they did not sow.
All the prophets whom Israel killed, were the ones who sowed into the vineyard, and now the apostles and his disciples went forth to bring forth fruit of the Kingdom, fruit that 1st century Israel did not bring forth.
The fruit was the believing Jews and the Gentiles from many nations...
The Harvest is not 2000 years in the making, much less four months. Christ said don't say it was four months back then, and we turn it around and make it 2000 years. The Harvest was already white BACK then.
John the Baptist stated that Christ was ready to harvest and in fact had the winnowing fork in His Hand...
Mat 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire
This was connected to the wrath to come... the burning of the chaff.
Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
That there is an "audience" related connection between the harvest and the "wrath to come" is evident from Matt 3:12.
Jesus gives us a slightly different view point of the tares and wheat of John's "gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff."
Mat 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Mat 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
This is an obvious allusion to 1st century destruction Jerusalem.
The tares, the unbelieving Jews were destroyed, gathered into the barn, the city, and burned, over 1.5 million Jews died as the temple mount blazed with fire.
The wheat were taken out, as the believers escaped to Pella.
The wedding/harvest were a 1st century phenomena.
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