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The
Time Of Harvest
In
Chapter 13 of Matthew, the 28th verse, we see the devil's
work. The enemy comes in and sows the seed and goes his
way. What is he interested in? He would just like to get a
tare in among God's people. It kills the affect. When that
business began to come up, they asked Jesus; they said to
the good man, did not you sow good seed in your field?
"Yes." Well, where did this bad business come
from? "An enemy hath done this."
Now the
devil would do the same thing yet today, if he could. He
would like to get an individual that won't do right and
act right in the midst of God's people. What for? Right
when the things are going good, he wants something to go
the opposite, so some stranger that is about convinced
will say, "You call that a good saint? Is that what
you call Christianity?" What do you tell them?
"No, an enemy has done this." He is never
satisfied.
The 28th
verse said, "He said unto them, An enemy hath done
this." The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then
that we go and gather them up? But He said, Nay, lest
while ye gather up the tares ye root up also the wheat
with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and
in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather
ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to
burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."
Now, may
we get an explanation. The 36th verse said He went into
the house. "He answered and said unto them, He that
soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the
world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but
the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy
that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of
the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore
the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall It
be in the end of this world." . .
The next
thing, is to clarify this. Here in the 40th verse it tells
us that thus shall it be in the end of the world. In I
Corinthians 10:11 - Hebrews 9:26, Let's see when the end
of the world really is according to the Bible. I
Corinthians 10:10, "Neither murmur ye, as some of
them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and
they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of
the world are come." The ends of the world are come--A.D.
40 to 50, back there in the morning time. Hebrews 9:24-26
will make it plainer. "For Christ is not entered into
the Holy Place made with hands (speaking of Christ, our
high priest; he is not going in like the old priest did;
he went into another place, to the very throne of God. But
listen when he went) which are the figures of the true;
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of
God for us: Nor yet that He should offer himself
often as the high priest entereth into the holy place
every year with blood of others; For then must He often
have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now
once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself."
To our
millennialist friends, the end of the world means to them,
the second coming of Christ. The end of the world is an
expression through the Word of God that means the last
dispensation of time -- the Holy Ghost Dispensation.
Now, He
not only said it would be in the end of the world, but the
30th verse (I want to make it double sure) He said it
would be in the time of harvest. Now we have to get this
time business straightened out right or the rest of the
parables won't be right. We have already given you the two
scriptures that said the end of the world was the Holy
Ghost dispensation. He not only said it would be in the
end of the world, but He said it would be in the time of
the harvest -- Christ speaking. When was the harvest?
Someone says, Oh, that is out here at the second coming of
Christ, well, I will let Jesus speak to you.
The 4th
chapter of John, the 5th verse, he said, "Say not ye,
there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?"
That was way back here before AD 33 and some are saying it
is still out in the future. It wasn't even four months
off, right then. Look on the fields. They are white unto
harvest. Pray the Lord of the harvest to send (what?)
reapers. Well, that is what He said He was going to send
out. When? At Christ's second coming, is He going to
harvest the earth? No. Why, Christ's second coming is not
mentioned anywhere in these parables. He did not say a
thing about His coming. One place it says He sent His
angels, and another place, He said He would send His
reapers (the Greek says He will send His messengers) or
His ministers.
"Look
on these fields." They are white with harvest right
now. Where did that harvest come from? The Son of man is
the one that sowed the seed that brought this harvest.
What harvest are we dealing with? This harvest that began
on the Day of Pentecost -- People think Peter went out and
got three thousand souls saved, when all he did was go out
and reap three thousand. Jesus sowed the seed. Where did
the harvest come from? The 9th chapter of Isaiah, verses 2
and 3. Teaching these parables has caused many to begin
searching and questioning. When you begin to show them the
parables, and they begin to compare what they've been
taught with the truth, do you know what they do? They go
right back and question everything that preacher says; we
have found you wrong on one part of it, and you might be
wrong on another part of it. And he gets upset and says,
"You're a 'church tramp.' Get out of here! We don't
want you! That is why I love to tell the truth -- People
go back and start putting the truth on their ministers --
and they don't like that, they want you to take it just as
they offer it. "You take it just because I said it,
and don't question it." God's people do not do that.
They question what people say, by the Word.
The 9th
chapter of Isaiah deals with the coming of Christ. Second
verse, "The people that walked in darkness have seen
a great light: (you know when that came, don't you?) they
that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
hath the light shined." Thank the Lord we are
dwelling in the valley of the shadow of death.
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