The Harvest Blog

THE ECONOMY OF THE DIVINE PLAN Often when a child I wondered why God did not give all mankind the same opportunity that He gave Adam, why all were not permitted to come into Eden and have a fair chance as Adam had. But in later years when I came to see the beauty of the doctrine of the Ransom...

THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION UN-SCRIPTURAL But we had greatly been troubled about the subject of incarnation, as even some of the Truth people seem to be; for they still misuse this word. There is nothing in the Bible on this subject, and there is no truth in this doctrine. *Incarnation means...

ECONOMY SHOWN IN RESPECT TO REDEMPTION This Divine quality of economy is manifested even in the great Plan for human salvation. When first my mind grasped this thought, I exclaimed, "Wonderful! Nobody but our Heavenly Father Himself would have thought about this principle!" Having been reared...

If you learn any of the first principle doctrines see to it that you learn this one, it is of the UPMOST IMPORTANCE and with a proper understanding will spare you from becoming entangled in most of the predominant errors, “foul spirits” (impure principles and doctrines) dwelling within the...

God's Service is Its Own Reward Is not the service of God its own reward that we should be unduly concerned about how we are to be paid for it? or that we should spend any time comparing our wage with our brother's, or grudge that he should have as much as or more than we? If we recall the...

The Last-called Gentiles became First Compare with the Jews the case of the Gentiles. They were not even permitted to enter into the vineyard until the seventy weeks of special covenant favor which God had made with the Jews had expired. They stood idle in the market-place. If any should ask...

“Out of many possible applications which the parable may have there are three which especially appeal to us as having merit. In the first place, there is one possible, and even likely, application of this warning and parable which cannot fail to be very welcome to us all. We are thinking now of...

"We have left all, and followed Thee;" cried Peter, "what, then, shall we have." And no words could have more conclusively shown Peter’s lack of sympathy with his Master. It is easy to conceive how this boast and question must have jarred on the heart of Christ. He was full of pity for the...

The Rich Young Man Whom Jesus Loved “To properly understand the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard it must be studied, like all Scripture, with reference to its context. And to do this in the present instance it is necessary to go back to the previous chapter. (The division is at an...

Two Erroneous Solutions Two very ingenious, but, to our understanding, erroneous, solutions of these difficulties are worth a moment's attention. The main difficulty of the parable is, of course, the apparent injustice of giving all the laborers the same wage. And to escape this difficulty some...

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace...

“During the early years of the fourth century, a heated controversy raged between the Arians (named after Arius, their leader), and the Trinitarians, led by Athanasius. The Arians maintained that Jesus is a created being, pre-existent, though having a beginning in time, a son in the normal sense...

Orthodox: of, relating to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine. Approved by whom? Orthodoxy: the right opinion. Who exactly determines whether something is the right opinion or not? In answer to both of these questions we would say it’s generally the ones in charge, whether...

“Israel is used in many instances to typify the Christian Church. For instance, when they left Egyptian bondage, they were a type of God’s children who hear his call to come out from the world and engage in his worship. The wilderness journey represented the tedious pilgrimage through which...

“Some have the idea that Israel lost her chosen status when she, as a nation, did not accept Jesus as her long promised Messiah. These Christians apply all prophetic scriptures about Israel to themselves, hence, Replacement theology. However, the Apostle warns against such a mistake, “For I...

Revelation Chapter 1 VERSE 8, continued from previous post. *Though Jesus is referred to as the “mighty God,” and although he himself declared that “all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth,” it is not proper to refer to him as the “ALL mighty God” for the same reason it is not...

Revelation Chapter 1 VERSE 8 (as explained from "The Keys of Revelation"), “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” As previously stated, “Verse 8 abruptly interrupts John’s narrative and the opening theme...

Words and Phrases The Alpha and Omega continued. “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one...

Words and Phrases The Alpha and Omega The following excerpt (Appendix B, Item # 741) was taken from the “New Albany Notes on Revelation”. “For an explanation of this phrase, please see the comments on Revelation Chapter 1 Verse 8. This appendix was added because a challenge to the thoughts...

Revelation Chapter 1 VERSE 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” This verse is seemingly isolated from what has come before it or what follows it. But, if we BEHOLD, it is the important end of the...