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2012 the Final Season of Harvest

By Jock Ellis

Understanding the Early Rain and Latter Rain

As we have seen from John 4:14 Seasons of Rain [Early Rain and Latter Rain] are pictures of the Saving Gospel whereby men are saved. We also see the association of Early Rain and Latter Rain with each of the Seasons of Harvest from the charts below:

James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Rain Season			Event	Harvest Season
Righteous Early Rain			Coming of Christ	Spring
Early Rain			End of Church Age	End of Summer Harvesting⁽¹⁾
Latter Rain			Last Harvest-End of the World)	End of Fall Harvesting
Notes	(1)	The physical organized churches do not receive latter rain. Wheat is sown during the early rain, but needs the latter rain (Adar) for its summer harvest to continue and flourish.

	The chart below associates the Jewish months with the associated Rain Season, the associated Harvest Season and the associated Harvest Feast days:

Rain Season	Associated Rain Seasons	Associated Harvest Seasons	Associated Harvest Feasts
Tishri, latter half (beginning about the autumnal equinox.) Cheshvan. Kislev, former half.	Early Rain	Spring Harvesting	Passover
Tishri, latter half (beginning about the autumnal equinox.) Cheshvan. Kislev, former half.	Early Rain	Late Spring Harvesting	Pentecost
both rain seasons are required	Early Rain and Latter Rain	Summer Harvesting
Shevatt, latter half. Adar. [Adar 2.] Nisan, former half.	Latter Rain	Fall Harvesting	Ingathering

Understanding Joel 2:23

When we examine closely the original Hebrew Scripture we find that the following words in the KJV of Joel 2:23 can be translated as the following:

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately [righteous early rain], and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain [early rain], and the latter rain in the first month* [beginning with early righteous early rain].

*The word month is not part of the original Hebrew.

Rain Season	Examination by Strong Parsing
former rain moderately	righteous early rain
former rain	early rain
First	beginning with early righteous early rain

Hebrew Strong's Concordance Parsing

Be glad H1523 guwl

then ye children H1121 ben

of Zion H6726 Tsiyown

and rejoice H8055 samach

in the Lord H3068 Yhwh

your God H0430 elohiym

for he hath given H5414 nathan

you the former rain H4175 mowrehH4175. mowreh, mo-reh´; from 3384; an archer; also teacher or teaching; also the early rain (see 3138):—(early) rain.

moderately H6666. tsdaqah, tsed-aw-kaw´; from 6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity):—justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

and he will cause to come down H3381 yarad

for you the rain H1653 geshem

the former rain H4175 mowreh H4175. mowreh, mo-reh´; from 3384; an archer; also teacher or teaching; also the early rain (see 3138):—(early) rain.

and the latter rain H4456 malqowsh

in the first H7223 ri’shown, riishon

H7223. rishown, ree-shone´; riishon, ree-shone´; from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun):—ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.

month (Italicized not part of the original Hebrew