Per Mike McVey: The Harvest Types God’s People were to congregate or assemble in Jerusalem 3 times a year. These 3 assemblies were Passover, Pentecost & Tabernacles. These LORD’s Assemblies, or Moedims were associated with a type of Harvest. Each type overlaps the subsequent one as the end of one type of Grain/Fruit harvest is the beginning of the next type of Harvest. -Passover = Barley-Beginning of Spring, Harvest gathered at Pentecost -Pentecost = Barley Harvest gathered, Beginning of Wheat Harvest at beginning of Summer -Tabernacles = Wheat Harvest gathered, Beginning of Fall Grape Harvest 1. Winnowing of the Barley (PASSOVER) This type of Grain is thrown in Air to separate it from its chaff. This is a ‘picture’ of Rapture; of Believers in Christ throwing off Old Sin Nature along with the physical body. In the air they are transformed & given a Spiritual body as we meet Jesus. The Barley Harvest is in-gathered by Pentecost. Because Christ was the ‘First-Fruit’ from among the ‘Dead’, in Romans, it declares that we too likewise will follow in this same ‘type’ of Grain. This can not be said of Rosh HaShana. The in-gathering or assembly of the Barley Harvest is taken into the barns around Pentecost. 2. Threshing of the Wheat (PENTECOST) This type of Grain is beaten loose on a ‘Tribulum’ because it is a lot harder before it is to be winnowed. This is a ‘picture’ of Tribulation Saints, Martyrs & Israel that is to be purified before being Raptured up. At the end of the Barley Harvest on Pentecost, the Wheat Harvest begins. This gives credence to the studies that propose that there are actually more than 1 ‘traditional’ Rapture, but that of the 144,000 Jewish Evangelists that are seen with Palm Branches signing the Song of Moses etc. 3. Pressing of the Grapes (Tabernacles) This type of fruit, Grapes in this case are crushed to extract its juice. It is a picture of judgment. It will be associated with the judgment of the Nations, the Anti-Christ, the False Prophet at the end of the Tribulation in reference to the Battle of Armageddon where blood will flow like rivers in Israel. This is why we see Christ at His 2nd Coming & his robes dipped in blood because of the battle He will wage at His Return. This is the ‘Vengeance of our God’ that He did not read at the Synagogue reading during His ministry. It was He at the Garden of Gethsemane that was crushed for our inequities, bruised by our sin & took the full brunt of the furry and wrath of God for the judgment of sin on our behalf. Didn’t He say that He was poured out like water on the Cross? ...Such anguish and price to pay for you and me. Gethsemane means ‘pressed out’.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:07:40 +0000