2012 the Final Season of Harvest

By Jock Ellis

The Final Harvest of Souls occurs outside of the physical organized Churches consisting of all denominations and non-denominations.

All Organized Churches consisting of all denominations and non-denominations as typified by the Seven Churches of Asia Minor in Rev 1:11 do not continue to the End of Tribulation as candlesticks (light for bringing the Gospel) since Christ removes their candlesticks prior to the end of the Final Tribulation Period.

Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and. What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto THE SEVEN CHURCHES which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea

The seven churches as represented by the seven candlesticks in Asia Minor (Turkey) were spiritual representatives of all the Churches. A candlestick represented each of the churches. In Revelation Chapter 2 and 3, we see six of the seven churches in less than a generation after their formation had been overtaken by apostasy and/or falling away of the doctrine. The Bible defines this apostasy and/or falling away in the Church as spiritual adultery. The demise of all the Churches can be seen when Christ threatens the removal of their candlesticks. When Christ removes the churches’ candlesticks, it is an indication that GOD is no longer using the church.

• Seven is used to represent the complete or all Examples GOD completed all creation in seven days Gen. 2:2
• Seven Bread Loaves Jesus multiplied represented all the Bread Loaves Matt. 15:35-38
• Pharaoh's Dream Gen. 41
• Seven rank and good corn ears (represented all the corn) in years of plenty
• Seven thin corn ears (represented all the corn) in years of famine

Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.


The fact that Revelation mentions that he [Christ] will come quickly if the Churches do not repent is clearly referring to the Final Tribulation, when the physical organized churches do not repent and thus Christ comes quickly in judgment.

Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth [Witnesses] these things saith. Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come. Lord Jesus.

Furthermore, we see an explosion of apostasy and/or falling away as reflected in this partial listing of prevalent sins in Today’s organized Churches:
 

• The Bible no longer Authority
• Signs and Wonders
• Falling Backwards (So Called Slain in Spirit by the teacher's of this false gospel)
• Speaking in Tongues (Adding Revelation)
• Explosion of Growth in the Pentecostal/charismatic Movement

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect.

• Women Pastors
• Divorce and Remarriage
• Ordination of practicing homosexuals to the Clergy
• Works /Grace Gospel
• Church Entertainment instead of Worship
• Widespread Pentecostal Movement
• No recognition of the Holiness of God
• Christian adoption of World (Music)
• Social GOSPEL
• Dreams and Visions
• Adoption of Inferior Translations of Bible
• Teaching of Church Denominations given greater authority than Bible
• Trust in Organized Church teachings rather than Bible
• Increased perverseness in physical organized churches
   

Historically, as further proof that that the organized churches do not exist as a means of bringing the Gospel to the End of Time, we see the eventual physical destruction of all seven of these churches (evidence that no physical organized church endures to the end of Time). The Turks invaded Asia Minor in two waves: The Seljuk’s were first at the end of the 11th century and the Ottomans came later, at the beginning of the 13th century. The Seljuk's and Ottomans using indiscriminate force, murder, and genocide managed to hold on to a foreign land expelling or exterminating its natural residents: Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, and Arabs. In addition, even today there is not even a significant identified Christian church presence in Turkey (Asia Minor).

Today's Statistics on Turkey (formerly Asia Minor):

Thus, when Jesus was referring to the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church in Matthew 16:18, clearly he was not referring to the physical organized churches, which is subject to destruction by Satan but to the spiritual church consisting only of the true believers.

The Organized Church consisting of all denomination and non-denomination does not receive its latter rain and is EQUATED WITH A WHORE during the Final Tribulation period.

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me. The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples,, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

We learned earlier that the latter rains are associated with the FINAL HARVEST that occurs just prior to the End of Time. Historically we also learned that the latter rains occurred in the months Shevatt, Adar (the 12th Month), Adar 2 the 13th Month (For Jewish Years with 13 months) and Nisan. The Latter Rains were needed to produce the Final Harvest, which occurs in the month of Tishri. Just prior to the End of Time in the physical organized Church, we see a phenomena where the organized Churches which had the responsibility of the bringing the Gospel has no latter rains because of their apostasy and/or falling away. We learned earlier that water is a spiritual picture of the Gospel. The Whore that “sitteth” upon many water in Revelation 17: 1 rules the many false gospels which are prevalent in Today’s’ physical organized Churches.

Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

We see God just as he equated the rebellion of “National Israel” against the Laws of Gods as adultery; God also equates the physical organized Church’s rebellion against Laws of God as adultery, as well.

Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

Revelation 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Revelation 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

To be adulterous, one must have a relationship of betrothal. The Bible is clear that both National Israel and the Organized Churches were betrothed to God.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Adultery -conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woman was fornication. Adultery was regarded as a great social wrong, as well as a great sin.

Thus the Whore being described as an adulteress in both Revelation 17 and 19 can only be the physical organized Church since it is the only organization that claims to be betrothed to Christ.

Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication <4202 porneia>, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

4202 porneia, por-ni´-ah; from 4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry:—fornication

Furthermore, we know that whore God is referring to is the organized church because the husbandmen prior to final harvest could only be the Gentile Church. This is evident because for over 19 hundred years the work of bringing the Gospel had been one primarily done by the Gentile Physical Organized Churches. Therefore, the stewardship of Gospel “tiller of the ground” was the responsibility of these organized churches just before God’s Final Judgment begins. This point is illustrated in the parable in Matthew 21 where we see the people of National Israel as the first husbandmen being the first to be given the responsibility of the bringing the gospel “tiller of the ground”, but their rebellion led to the vineyard being given to the Gentile Physical Organized Churches.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Husbandman \Hus"band*man\, n.; pl. Husbandmen.1. The master of a family. [Obs.] --Chaucer.2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.

Matthew 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

Matthew 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.

Matthew 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Matthew 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

Matthew 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

Matthew 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

Matthew 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Ironically, we also see God's warning to the Church just as “National Israel "was cut off. God applies the same warning to the Gentile Physical Organized Churches. We know that God is referring to Churches as organization because we know that the individual true believer can not be separated from God. However, as we have seen from the destruction of all Seven Churches in Asia Minor that Church as an Organization can be separated from God.

Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

Romans 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

We see clearly in the book of 1 Peters and 2 Corinthians just as the “National Israel" rebelled and fell under Judgment of God that the Physical Organized Churches also rebels near the End of Time and fall under the judgment of God prior to God's Final Harvest.

1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

2Corinthians 10:6 And having In a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

More graphically in the book of 2 Thessalonians, we see that the Coming of Christ and the Final Harvest are clearly predicated upon the End Time rebellion of the organized Church. Christ will not come unless there first comes a falling away in the organized Church and Satan becomes the de facto leader of all the organized churches.

2Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2Thessalonians 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

2Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

2Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

Revelation 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

Prior to start of 2 previous Tribulations (great afflictions) periods, true believers commanded to leave their “Church" (Earthly Temples).

• 1877 B.C. (1st Tribulation-abomination of desolation,). Jacob commanded to leave Cannon during the 2nd Year of Famine in Cannon. Great Tribulation in Jacob's day started in 1879 B.C. before the abomination of desolation. Great Tribulation occurred when the land did not produce substance as oppose to Jacob's departure from Cannon, see Acts 7:11 below.

Genesis 46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Genesis 46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Acts 7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction [G2347 thlipsis]: and our fathers found no sustenance.

The Greek word "thilpsis" also found in Matthew 24:21 is translated to our English word tribulation (great tribulation).

Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation [G2347 thlipsis]:, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

G2347 thlipsis, thlip´-sis; from 2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):—afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble

• 609- 587/586 B.C. 23 Year (Death of Josiah (last good king of Judah) to fall of Judah) -Temple Destroyed in 587 (2nd Tribulation - abomination of desolation,)

Jeremiah 21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

Nehemiah 1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

True believers of today commanded to leave the physical organized churches today.

Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

True believers that come out are the bearers of the gospel during the Latter rain and seed for the Latter rain.

Romans 9 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Romans 9 29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha