The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

The Lord’s choice to pour out empowerment on His church at

the day of Pentecost offers a clear prophetic picture: The early

church was the first fruit of this harvest age, 50 days after

Jesus (our Passover lamb) was offered up (1 Cor. 5:7). Now

we await celebration the “final” or full spiritual harvest at the

Feast of Tabernacles — at the end of this age.

The past two mi llennia have been the “age of harvest” as the

church progressively reached out to every nation in the world.

We are nearing the end of harvest time — the fulfillment of

Jesus’ Great Commission for the church to disciple and baptize

all nations (Matt. 28:18-20; Mark 16:15). The finale is pictured

in Revelation 14:16, where Jesus (through His corporate Body)

will accomplish the final ingathering into the Kingdom of God of

all who will respond to the gospel.

The Harvest is Ready and Ripe

It is clear that with the coming of Jesus, God was proclaiming

the world harvest ready to be brought in (John 4:35-36). There

was no need to wait for humanity to ripen further, in this sense.

To illustrate this, Jesus made an observation about John the

Ba ptist’s mission , which was to prepare God’s people for Jesus’

first coming: