The Harvest Blog

“Despite what is commonly believed and taught by orthodoxy, immersion or baptism (Greek--dipping) in water, as practiced by John the Baptist and afterward by our Lord and his disciples, had a different significance at first among the disciples from what it came to have after the Spirit...

Chapter 19 This chapter could well be two chapters. The first ten verses deal with "the marriage of the lamb." The remainder jumps back to the beginning of the harvest to give us yet another perspective on how the current social order will meet its end. The "marriage of the lamb" is a symbol...

Chapters 14 through 19 in Brief Chapter 14 Jesus appears on the scene in 14:14. Note why. Verse 15 clearly states that the time for HARVEST is begun. As he promised in his Matthew 13 parable, there is a harvest of TWO groups: (1) The harvest of the earth (THE WHEAT) in verses 15 and 16; and...

A Closer Look at Section 2 (Chapters 14-19) "Men's hearts failing them for fear" - Luke 21:26 Chapters 14 through 19 focus on events at the close of the Gospel Age -- THE HARVEST. This is a complex period. In it the world is experiencing troubles it cannot handle, and Christianity is faced...

Origin and Scriptural Evaluation of "The Seven-Year Tribulation" Theory Many hold the seven-year tribulation theory, which briefly states is this: Christ secretly returns to earth to "rapture" the church and takes them to heaven. This will be followed (not necessarily immediately) by seven...

Seven Churches The Lord decided to divide the history of the Christian Church into seven periods -- periods which are unique in their experiences, history, and doctrinal understandings. He gives each of these periods a symbolic name and introduces us to them in Rev 1:11. Jesus watches over...

To see the structure of Revelation is to see more than most theologians throughout history have been privileged to see the following information can be the key to a very large measure of understanding of Revelation. Even though Revelation is a very complicated prophecy, its BASIC SIMPLICITY is...

5. TIME-FRAME STUDY Not all scriptures nor all Scriptural injunctions apply at all times. For example, there was a time when God dealt with the Jewish nation and no one else (Amos 3:2); and there is now a time when placing ourselves under the ten commandments of the Jewish Law is inappropriate...

It is not the purpose of this study to give an in-depth or detailed interpretation of Revelation (We’ll save that for later). Instead, this study is designed simply to provide an outline that is generally accepted as sound by serious, enlightened students of the Bible. It also will provide the...

“We began this study with a list of seven questions that are basic to an understanding of God's plan (and hence are basic to an understanding of the details of prophecy that are found in Revelation). To close this chapter we will ask the same seven questions and this time give concise answers to...

The Gospel is summarized in God's promise to Abraham, "In thy seed shall all nations be blessed." What does this mean? Notice that it involves two distinct and separate parts: 1. Abraham's seed. 2. All nations (or families) of earth. Abraham's seed is not totally as Abraham might have...

THE OTHER HALF OF THE GOSPEL “Genesis begins with the fall of man. Revelation concludes with the restoration of man. In Genesis the curse falls on man. In Revelation the curse is "no more." In Genesis are the promises that the "seed of the woman" and the seed of Abraham will destroy the enemy...

“The title of this last book of the Bible is taken from its first verse: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John" It is important to consider the...

We would very much like to do a study on Revelation as it is apparent from the many confused ideas being circulated on this forum that there is much debate as to what is truth, but of course this is something to be expected for Babylon (the professing church) is (in the state of) confusion even...

DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT SALVATIONS Here note the difference between the blessing God designed for the elect church He is selecting during this gospel age and the one he purposes for the world of mankind. The church’s blessing is not “restitution,” and in harmony with this we can see no evidence of...

“TIMES OF RESTITUTION” In full accord with all that we discussed in our previous post is the apostle’s statement respecting the blessings that are to come to mankind during the millennial age, following our Lord’s second advent and the glorification of His church to joint heirship with Himself...

FEW HAVE NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE The means for the blessing we see provided in Christ and His bride, the elect church of the Gospel age, but the guarantee of the whole is fixed beyond peradventure in the fact that “Jesus Christ by the grace of God tasted death for every man,” or, as our text...

A COMMON ERROR CORRECTED At this point many good people laboring under a degree of blindness, the “smoke of the dark ages,” feel disposed to object and to insist that there can be no future probation. Ask them why, their reply is that the entire Scriptural teaching contradicts the thought of a...

NOT A LIMITED ATONEMENT “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be...

We have already seen that the 1000-year period which began in Autumn 1874 A.D. is the 49th (1000 year day) from the beginning of the "days" of creation (46,128 B.C.), and the 7th (1000 year day) from the fall of Adam (4126 B.C.), and that, therefore, it may be regarded as a great “Sabbath year."...