The Harvest Blog

As stated in our previous post we mentioned three groups of individuals living at the time who will enter the great tribulation: 1) The Great Company. 2) The nation of Israel. 3) The world of mankind. Two of these groups are destine not only to enter the great time of trouble, but likewise...

As we stated in our first post the “Day of the Lord”, the Second Advent or Greek: Parousia (presence) of our Lord encompasses the entire thousand years. It is not simply composed of the great time of trouble and the destruction of all sinners as is commonly supposed, but likewise includes many...

“And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.” (Jer 25:33) Although there are many prophecies which pertain specifically to Israel after...

In our previous post we noted our friends statement that the “following the Lord’s Second Advent the earth is to be destroyed, empty, darkened, silent, and devoid of all life… and that “nothing on this planet is going to have a pulse until after the 1,000 years”. He quotes Jeremiah as saying...

In considering the Day of the Lord we should like to note a few of the various works to be performed on this day, remember the Day of the Lord encompasses the entire thousand years of his Parousia. Shortly following the arrival of our Lord the first work was the raising of the sleeping saints...

In this study we should like to address the assertion made by one of our forum members that: “Following the Lord’s Second Advent the earth is to be destroyed, empty, darkened, silent, and devoid of all life (except for Satan and his demons).” Likewise his statement that: “All those verses like...

THE PERSON OF THE "MAN OF SIN" He is called the "man of sin," and this expression is qualified by another, "the son of perdition." As before, we search the Scriptures to learn what use the Spirit has elsewhere made of this phrase, and we find it employed in only a single other instance (John...

THE ORIGIN OF THE "MAN OF SIN" Led by our investigation thus far to look for the Evil One in the Church of God, we find all the other language of the prophecy pointing in the same direction. The first stage in the predicted development of the wicked one is that of APOSTASY. Speaking of the...

THE SEAT OF THE "MAN OF SIN" "He, as God, sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." The Greek phrase here employed for "temple of God," is (“ton naon tou Theou”) now, from Matthew to Revelation this expression occurs only seven times. The following are all seven instances: 1...

In this study it is our goal to determine the person or nature of the “Man of Sin”, where he comes from, and how it is that he sits in the temple of God. “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son...

As is generally the case with most subjects the tendency is for the pendulum to swing too far to right or too far to the left. In this instance we have those on the right hand who insist on the literal interpretation of all scripture and those on the left who tend to spiritualize everything...

That the decisive act which determined the change of ruler-ship (from Satan to our Lord), and turned the condemnation from the world, was the death of Christ, is clearly seen from the following verses (32, 33). "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL men unto me." "This he said...

"Now is a krisis of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out."--John 12:31 The Greek word rendered judgment, in this text, is the word krisis from which our English word crisis is derived, and to which the same exact meaning is given, viz., The point of time when any course of...

Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 30 continued, “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” There are actually two views as to who exactly is being...

Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 30 continued, “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” "In Heaven:" The sign or proof of our Lord’s Parousia...

Matthew Chapter 24 As depicted in the illustration above the majority of professed believers have been taught to believe that the Lord will descend visibly from heaven on the clouds and with a great shout and sounding of a trumpet accompanied by myriads of his holy angels, every eye will see...

Matthew Chapter 24 Before we take a look at Verse 30 we should like first to summarize what we have thus far. In Verse 29 we were informed that “immediately after the tribulation of THOSE DAYS,” four particular events (signs) would take place which we believe would have both a literal and a...

Matthew Chapter 24 Continued from our previous post. “They (the people) will pass through it [the land], hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king (their leaders, governments and etc.) and their God (their religious...

Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 29 continued, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” "Immediately after the tribulation of THOSE DAYS…” What...

Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 29 continued, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” In our Lord's prophecy these true star-lights (mentioned in...