ECCLESIASTES 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Harvest time comes when the fruit or grain is ripe; it then has to be harvested. If it is not, the harvest can be lost.
JEREMIAH 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
If the church does not pick the harvest when it is time, Satan will via false cults and the New-Age movement.
Our first calling is to reproduce.
GENESIS 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
COLOSSIANS 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
The wheat need’s sunshine but no rain to ripen it.
In other words, there had to be a dry season to get the wheat ready for harvest. Over recent years, we have seen great spiritual harvests reaped in many developing nations, but we have seen very little happening in the Western world. The Western world has been in a relatively dry season; however, that is about to change.
The world is being prepared for harvest. In a climate of terrorism, lawlessness, rioting, and uncertainty, God is allowing the scene to be set for harvest-time. Church history testifies to the fact that before spiritual harvests begin, a great spiritual hunger is kindled in many believers.
PSALMS 63:1 O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2. To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Such a pang of hunger is stimulated within many believers.
EARLY WILL I SEEK YOU MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR YOU. MY FLESH LONGS FOR YOU TO SEE YOUR POWER AND GLORY
The context of these scriptures is the Sanctuary, the Tabernacle of Moses. The Outer Court speaks of the Body – the flesh. The Holy Place speaks of the Soul. The Holiest of All speaks of the Spirit.
LONGING TAKES YOU INTO OUTER COURT THIRSTING INTO THE HOLY PLACE SEEKING INTO THE HOLIEST OF ALL
PSALMS 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls; all thy waves and thy breakers are gone over me.
When we see a longing for God, a thirst for Him, when we see a passion for the harvest, God is preparing people for the operation of the Holy Spirit in which purification comes by fire.
This is the beginning stage of the harvest; this is necessary because like produces like and God wants you to produce a harvest of purity in the lives of new believers. One of the most fundamental truths of harvest-time is that like produces like. Apple trees produce apple trees, kangaroos produce kangaroos. The scary thing is this: the people you lead to the Lord and disciple will turn out just like you.
GENESIS 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea.
Jesus was the firstborn of many that were to turn out Just like Him:
ROMANS 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
What you sow into a person’s life will reproduce. The unerring law of sowing and reaping is one of the most fundamental laws of the universe. Many revivals in the past have been on the level of the Outer Court and the fruit corresponded to that spiritual level. Others were in the Holy Place with its corresponding level of spirituality and purity. Only a few revivals have been at the level of the Holiest of All; this is about to change.
This is why the preparation for the next harvest requires much more, the bar has been lifted, the level of heart purity and motives, the level of personal holiness that God is requiring is very high and only a baptism of fire can prepare us for this next great ingathering of the harvest.
We are on the brink of a new great move of God that will sweep the Western world like a prairie fire. God is about to rise again and when He does, we will see the enemies of secularism and humanism fall, and God will raise a new standard of righteousness in the land.
PSALMS 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. 2. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.