Just when... is wheat harvest time? It's usually in May for the first harvest, but June-August for the summer harvest. Summer harvest is when our Lord Jesus referred to the fig harvest time in His Olivet discourse when He comes to gather His saints (Luke 21:30-31).
In Mark 13:14-18, our Lord Jesus warned those in Jerusalem when they see the "abomination of desolation" idol setup there according to the Book of Daniel, to get out of Judea. He then gave a warning for those 'with child' followed by praying you're flight is not in the winter...
Mark 13:17-18
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
KJV
Apostle Luke gives a more serious version...
Luke 21:23
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
KJV
He then referred to summer time harvest with the fig tree parable being the time of His coming and manifesting of the kingdom of God...
Luke 21:30-31
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
KJV
Since He referred to summer with the fig harvest in those same chapters, what's that pray your flight be not in the winter idea? One cannot just say, "Oh, that just means pray that His coming to gather us won't be in the winter." Really? is that what He truly meant? No, not really.
Childbirth is a blessing from The LORD GOD. Per Apostle Paul, Christ's Church is not appointed to God's wrath. The word for "wrath" in the Luke 21:23 verse is about the future event of God's wrath upon the wicked in most all New Testament examples (Strong's no.3709). So why would our Lord Jesus warn about that 'wrath' for those of His that are 'with child' for that end of the tribulation just before His 2nd coming? And why would He point to praying their flight is not in the winter, when He showed HARVEST time for His coming is in the SUMMER?
The Answer:
The answer is found in the Luke 23:26-30 Scripture.
Women in Jerusalem were weeping for Lord Jesus as He was being led to His crucifixion. He turned to them and said to not weep for Him, but instead for themselves, and for their children, because the day would come when they shall say, "... Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck." (Luke 23:29). Let's read the Luke 21:23 warning He gave again about those just prior to His coming that are "with child"...
Luke 21:23
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
KJV
Our Lord Jesus was proclaiming a parable He first gave in Isaiah 54 which uses the idea of a woman's womb to symbolize either a chaste virgin or a harlot found with child. In 2 Corinthians 11:1-4, Apostle Paul also used this parable saying he wanted to present us to Christ as "a chaste virgin". So if one thinks this warning our Lord Jesus gave in His Olivet discourse is simply about literal pregnant women during the tribulation, they need to think again, for our Lord Jesus was teaching us to not be deceived by the coming pseudo-Christ who will appear in Jerusalem first playing God, and instead wait for our Lord Jesus' coming afterwards to destroy that false one.
This is why He said pray your flight be not in the winter, because winter represents the time of the "untimely figs" that literally grow in the winter and fall off in the spring. Summer harvest time is when Jesus comes to gather His harvest. So if you're gathered in symbolic winter, then it means you are gathered early by the coming Antichrist who comes first. Those gathered early will be like the symbolic harlot found "with child", and God's wrath will be upon those deceived by the Antichrist that fall away to him instead.
In Mark 13:14-18, our Lord Jesus warned those in Jerusalem when they see the "abomination of desolation" idol setup there according to the Book of Daniel, to get out of Judea. He then gave a warning for those 'with child' followed by praying you're flight is not in the winter...
Mark 13:17-18
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
KJV
Apostle Luke gives a more serious version...
Luke 21:23
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
KJV
He then referred to summer time harvest with the fig tree parable being the time of His coming and manifesting of the kingdom of God...
Luke 21:30-31
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
KJV
Since He referred to summer with the fig harvest in those same chapters, what's that pray your flight be not in the winter idea? One cannot just say, "Oh, that just means pray that His coming to gather us won't be in the winter." Really? is that what He truly meant? No, not really.
Childbirth is a blessing from The LORD GOD. Per Apostle Paul, Christ's Church is not appointed to God's wrath. The word for "wrath" in the Luke 21:23 verse is about the future event of God's wrath upon the wicked in most all New Testament examples (Strong's no.3709). So why would our Lord Jesus warn about that 'wrath' for those of His that are 'with child' for that end of the tribulation just before His 2nd coming? And why would He point to praying their flight is not in the winter, when He showed HARVEST time for His coming is in the SUMMER?
The Answer:
The answer is found in the Luke 23:26-30 Scripture.
Women in Jerusalem were weeping for Lord Jesus as He was being led to His crucifixion. He turned to them and said to not weep for Him, but instead for themselves, and for their children, because the day would come when they shall say, "... Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck." (Luke 23:29). Let's read the Luke 21:23 warning He gave again about those just prior to His coming that are "with child"...
Luke 21:23
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
KJV
Our Lord Jesus was proclaiming a parable He first gave in Isaiah 54 which uses the idea of a woman's womb to symbolize either a chaste virgin or a harlot found with child. In 2 Corinthians 11:1-4, Apostle Paul also used this parable saying he wanted to present us to Christ as "a chaste virgin". So if one thinks this warning our Lord Jesus gave in His Olivet discourse is simply about literal pregnant women during the tribulation, they need to think again, for our Lord Jesus was teaching us to not be deceived by the coming pseudo-Christ who will appear in Jerusalem first playing God, and instead wait for our Lord Jesus' coming afterwards to destroy that false one.
This is why He said pray your flight be not in the winter, because winter represents the time of the "untimely figs" that literally grow in the winter and fall off in the spring. Summer harvest time is when Jesus comes to gather His harvest. So if you're gathered in symbolic winter, then it means you are gathered early by the coming Antichrist who comes first. Those gathered early will be like the symbolic harlot found "with child", and God's wrath will be upon those deceived by the Antichrist that fall away to him instead.