We should look towards the harvest of souls and towards the signs of the times.

John 4:35

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 “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!” John 4:35 

It’s one thing to be able to predict when the farm fields will be ripe for harvest, but quite another thing to see the souls which is ripe to come to Jesus Christ. Jesus wanted His disciples to see the harvest of unclean sinners ready to receive His testimony about the Kingdom of God. More specifically, He wanted His disciples to see unclean Gentiles and Samarians as being part of the harvest of souls which God sent Him for the atonement for their sin.

Today, every city is filled with unclean sinners which should be considered a field with a potential harvest of souls. That is the harvest of souls which the Gospel of Christ reached from the beginning of His ministry to about the end of WW2. For almost two thousand years (From the days of Jesus to about 1946) there was a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and people came to the Lord Jesus from every corner of the world. The United Nations was established immediately after WW2 (as described in Daniel 8), which is the global government of the beast, and since that time the Gospel has rapidly disappeared. The Gospel of Christ is no longer in the churches, not in government lawmaking, not in the educational system, and not wanted in any sector of society.

Today, Jesus also wants us to keep our eyes on the signs of the times, which points to the last days, and Matthew 24 as well as Luke 21 describes those signs. These are days when love has gone cold, the Holy Spirit has been taken from this world, and all the world follows the beast except those whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. People in every city around the world welcome the thing which forms what they think, feel, say and do which blasphemes God, discards the need for Jesus, and tramples on the Holy Spirit. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world. As it lives and speaks through them, they are conformed to their place in life, or mark in life, as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

Even though we live in a world which shuns the Gospel of Christ, it is still true that today is the day of Salvation and if we hear His voice, we must not harden our heart. For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life, John 3:16.

We can assess that we know ahead of time when the time comes for the crop in the field to be harvested. The diagnosis is that we should monitor the spiritual crop of this world to know what the harvest of souls for Jesus Christ looks like. We plan to keep in mind that the “…spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.” Revelation 19:10 When we want to know where the world is within prophecy we look to see where Jesus is within the world. We implement that plan by comparing the words written in the Holy Bible to what the world is actually like. We know the plan is successful when we can look at the world and gauge what the harvest of souls for the Lord Jesus is.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11