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

From the days of John the Baptist until the present, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent [hungry] people have been attacking it, because the Law and all the Prophets prophesied up to the time of John. If you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. Let the person who has ears listen (Matt. 11:12-15 ISV). 10

Jesus was saying that at the beginning of John the Baptist’s

preaching, at last the promised Kingdom of God was opening.

Crowds went out to John, spiritually hungry and surging to hear

the word of God through him (Matt. 3:5). After a 400-year wait,

the prophetic silence had been broken. The harvest door was

open. The ripe harvest was pressing in, responding to the spirit

of Elijah that had been released. God’s people were to be His

redemptive vehicle to bring the nations into the kingdom.

Jesus Predicted Exponential Growth

Knowing that we may encounter resistance or indifference in

the harvest field should not shake our confidence in God’s

declaration that the “fields are white unto harvest.” Those who

10 Jesus’ mention of John as Elijah was tied to the current belief that Elijah literally would appear to prepare Israel to embrace Messiah at His coming (Matt.17:10). But Jesus was saying that it was not Elijah himself, but rather the essence of his ministry and the spirit of revival that would come — now carried by John the Baptist (Luke 1:16).