In our previous study 'The Mystery of the kingdom of heaven' we saw that Satan's Mystery Babylon was within the kingdom of heaven. We saw various parables which Messiah taught and spoke of this. In this study we will examine only one of those parables in detail to understand what is happening in Great Tribulation and where do we stand as elect of Messiah in it.
Let's first read the parable and compare it spiritually with other portions of scripture to understand the imagery and the parabolic language in scriptures.
Mt 13:24 ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Before examining the parable in relation to Great Tribulation we must understand the symbolism of wheat and tares. Just after Messiah quoted these parables of the kingdom of Satan within the kingdom of heaven his disciples were keen to understand this parable of 'wheat and tares'. In expounding the parable Messiah says
1) The sower is the Son of Man (Matt 13:37)
2) field is the world (Matt 13:38)
3) good seed are the children of the kingdom (Matt 13:38) &
4) the tares are the children of the wicked one (Matt 13:38)
Mt 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Messiah gives us a clue that he spoke this parable and all the other parables along with this in respect to the END OF THE WORLD.
John the Baptist testified of Messiah
Lu 3:17 Whose fan (ptuon) is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
The Greek word 'ptuon' means 'winnowing fork'. Winnowing fork was used to separate the chaff from the grain and Messiah is the one who has the WINNOWING FORK in his hand.
This relates to Alahim's law of observing the feast of weeks i.e. firstfruits of wheat harvest and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Ex 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Messiah himself became part of his creation in being the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and the elect in Messiah are the firstfruits.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
The 'corn of wheat' fallen into the ground is Messiah who died to bring forth much 'corns of wheat' i.e. his elect.
1Co 15:20 ¶ But now is Messiah risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Messiah the firstfruits; afterward they that are Messiah's at his coming.
So we see that the reaping is related to 'resurrection from the dead' to immortality. The elect have a blessed hope that just as Messiah rose from the dead and became the firstfruits we have a hope that we will be gathered unto him in the feast of the ingathering. The law of Alahim is spiritual and hence we see the fulfillment of the law of Alahim in Messiah and elect in Messiah.
De 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the YAHUAH thy Alahim with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the YAHUAH thy Alahim, according as the YAHUAH thy Alahim hath blessed thee:
Ac 2:1 ¶ And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
The gathering of the firstfruits can be read and understood when we see what happened on the day of Pentecost and the elect of Messiah have been gathered in Messiah with a hope of eternal life.
2Co 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ro 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of Alahim
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
While those being gathered as firstfruits in Messiah with the earnest in the heart the tares claimed that they too were wheat and are gathered into Messiah and hence we see so many clinging to Messiah claiming he is the corn of wheat and the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of Alahim.
Pr 27:22 ¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
In Rev 18 we see the kings of the earth (the tares who think that they have escaped Alahim's wrath by fleeing a local church) and merchants weeping over Mystery Babylon and their merchandise consisted of a counterfeit merchandise . In the midst of the counterfeit merchandise to deceive they also had 'WHEAT'
Re 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
The language is parabolic and we have seen in our previous studies that one of their merchandise is 'souls of men' which show buying and selling of souls to perdition.
They imitate Satan by displaying a counterfeit merchandise.
Eze 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of Alahim: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Hence when we look at the parable of wheat and tares the enemy (Satan) sowed the tares which were a look alike to the wheat and was counterfeit and deceptive. Many fell to these false gospels and a separation of wheat and tares will reveal the true sons of Alahim.
Though they came out of church they still held on to false gospels of Satan and were deceived into thinking that they belong to Messiah and this imagery can be seen in that instead of rejoicing over being delivered from Mystery Babylon they are mourning and lamenting over her.
We are very close to the feast of Ingathering i.e the feast of Booths which reveals the true sojourners who lived desiring the heavenly country in which righteousness dwells whereas the tares lived as vagabounds (way of Cain) seeking a carnal inheritance.
With what we have learned now let's look at the Reaping that is revealed in the imagery of Rev 14
Re 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white (leukos) cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Joh 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white (leukos) already to harvest.
In this imagery we see Messiah seated on a WHITE CLOUD which confirms what we saw 'FIRSTFRUITS'. The elect are the white already gathered in Messiah in the feast of weeks spiritually; but here the two reapings are shown to show the separation of the wheat from the tares.
Re 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
This is the first reaping that's mentioned in the imagery of Rev 14
Then there is a second reaping that is mentioned. Both these reaping are simultaneous and they are shown separately to let us know that what was gathered spiritually in Messiah were the wheat and the tares will be uprooted to be burnt in Alahim's wrath. By the separation of the wheat and the tares would we know and discern who are the true elect of Alahim and who are not. The dividing line/measuring line in Rev 11:1-2 reveals to us who 'gathers' and who 'scatters'
Re 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of Alahim.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
The city in this imagery is the temple into which the elect are gathered but the court without the temple are given to the Gentiles who will tread under foot forty and two months.
Re 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Thousand six hunderd :
The sixteen hundred is a square number; 4 * 4 *100 and is a spiritual number. The four quarters, north, south, east, and west, of outside the holy city in which are those that cling to Messiah but are tares (4) * those who are the heathen (4) * their complete number (100).
Re 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
What is interesting to see here is that Alahim measures out his wrath to all those who disobeyed the gospel of Messiah in the same fashion as Messiah and his elect who bore his reproach were killed without the gate. This is the justice of Alahim meted out to all those who rebelled against him.
Ps 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the YAHUAH our Alahim.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, YAHUAH: let the king hear us when we call.
Lu 22:31 And the Yahuah said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
1Pe 5:8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Am 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Yahuah GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the YAHUAH.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
What a blessed Messiah we have who will not allow the least grain to fall upon the earth because of his MEDIATION.
Coming back to Amos 7:3. When he intercedes for Jacob it repents Alahim of what he is about to do, Amos sees another vision and this time Alahim shows him that with a great fire he is going to devour the deep.
Amos 7:4 Thus hath the Yahuah Alahim shewed unto me: and, behold, the Yahuah Alahim called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. [5] Then said I, O Yahuah Alahim , cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. [6] The Yahuah repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Yahuah Alahim.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or NAKEDNESS, or peril, or sword?
Revelation 3:18-19 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy NAKEDNESS do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. [19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Exodus 33:4-6 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. [5] For the Yahuah had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. [6] And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
Let's first read the parable and compare it spiritually with other portions of scripture to understand the imagery and the parabolic language in scriptures.
Mt 13:24 ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Before examining the parable in relation to Great Tribulation we must understand the symbolism of wheat and tares. Just after Messiah quoted these parables of the kingdom of Satan within the kingdom of heaven his disciples were keen to understand this parable of 'wheat and tares'. In expounding the parable Messiah says
1) The sower is the Son of Man (Matt 13:37)
2) field is the world (Matt 13:38)
3) good seed are the children of the kingdom (Matt 13:38) &
4) the tares are the children of the wicked one (Matt 13:38)
Mt 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Messiah gives us a clue that he spoke this parable and all the other parables along with this in respect to the END OF THE WORLD.
John the Baptist testified of Messiah
Lu 3:17 Whose fan (ptuon) is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
The Greek word 'ptuon' means 'winnowing fork'. Winnowing fork was used to separate the chaff from the grain and Messiah is the one who has the WINNOWING FORK in his hand.
This relates to Alahim's law of observing the feast of weeks i.e. firstfruits of wheat harvest and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Ex 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Messiah himself became part of his creation in being the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and the elect in Messiah are the firstfruits.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
The 'corn of wheat' fallen into the ground is Messiah who died to bring forth much 'corns of wheat' i.e. his elect.
1Co 15:20 ¶ But now is Messiah risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Messiah the firstfruits; afterward they that are Messiah's at his coming.
So we see that the reaping is related to 'resurrection from the dead' to immortality. The elect have a blessed hope that just as Messiah rose from the dead and became the firstfruits we have a hope that we will be gathered unto him in the feast of the ingathering. The law of Alahim is spiritual and hence we see the fulfillment of the law of Alahim in Messiah and elect in Messiah.
De 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the YAHUAH thy Alahim with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the YAHUAH thy Alahim, according as the YAHUAH thy Alahim hath blessed thee:
Ac 2:1 ¶ And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
The gathering of the firstfruits can be read and understood when we see what happened on the day of Pentecost and the elect of Messiah have been gathered in Messiah with a hope of eternal life.
2Co 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ro 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of Alahim
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
While those being gathered as firstfruits in Messiah with the earnest in the heart the tares claimed that they too were wheat and are gathered into Messiah and hence we see so many clinging to Messiah claiming he is the corn of wheat and the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of Alahim.
Pr 27:22 ¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
In Rev 18 we see the kings of the earth (the tares who think that they have escaped Alahim's wrath by fleeing a local church) and merchants weeping over Mystery Babylon and their merchandise consisted of a counterfeit merchandise . In the midst of the counterfeit merchandise to deceive they also had 'WHEAT'
Re 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
The language is parabolic and we have seen in our previous studies that one of their merchandise is 'souls of men' which show buying and selling of souls to perdition.
They imitate Satan by displaying a counterfeit merchandise.
Eze 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of Alahim: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Hence when we look at the parable of wheat and tares the enemy (Satan) sowed the tares which were a look alike to the wheat and was counterfeit and deceptive. Many fell to these false gospels and a separation of wheat and tares will reveal the true sons of Alahim.
Though they came out of church they still held on to false gospels of Satan and were deceived into thinking that they belong to Messiah and this imagery can be seen in that instead of rejoicing over being delivered from Mystery Babylon they are mourning and lamenting over her.
We are very close to the feast of Ingathering i.e the feast of Booths which reveals the true sojourners who lived desiring the heavenly country in which righteousness dwells whereas the tares lived as vagabounds (way of Cain) seeking a carnal inheritance.
With what we have learned now let's look at the Reaping that is revealed in the imagery of Rev 14
Re 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white (leukos) cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Joh 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white (leukos) already to harvest.
In this imagery we see Messiah seated on a WHITE CLOUD which confirms what we saw 'FIRSTFRUITS'. The elect are the white already gathered in Messiah in the feast of weeks spiritually; but here the two reapings are shown to show the separation of the wheat from the tares.
Re 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
This is the first reaping that's mentioned in the imagery of Rev 14
Then there is a second reaping that is mentioned. Both these reaping are simultaneous and they are shown separately to let us know that what was gathered spiritually in Messiah were the wheat and the tares will be uprooted to be burnt in Alahim's wrath. By the separation of the wheat and the tares would we know and discern who are the true elect of Alahim and who are not. The dividing line/measuring line in Rev 11:1-2 reveals to us who 'gathers' and who 'scatters'
Re 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of Alahim.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
The city in this imagery is the temple into which the elect are gathered but the court without the temple are given to the Gentiles who will tread under foot forty and two months.
Re 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Thousand six hunderd :
The sixteen hundred is a square number; 4 * 4 *100 and is a spiritual number. The four quarters, north, south, east, and west, of outside the holy city in which are those that cling to Messiah but are tares (4) * those who are the heathen (4) * their complete number (100).
Re 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
What is interesting to see here is that Alahim measures out his wrath to all those who disobeyed the gospel of Messiah in the same fashion as Messiah and his elect who bore his reproach were killed without the gate. This is the justice of Alahim meted out to all those who rebelled against him.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Yahusha also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Alahim shows us in this imagery that he will kill all these who belong to Gog and Magog who compassed the camp of the saints about (north, south, east and west-four quarters)
Re 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from Alahim out of heaven, and devoured them.
Re 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Furlong: a spiritual measure
The Greek word for furlong is 'stadion' which means a stade or certain measure of distance like in a race. The usage of horses bridles and furlong is spiritual and carnal man goes into interpreting furlong into miles or yards or meters or feet. This is not the way spiritual imagery is interpreted.
Alahim is showing us that those belonging to Gog and Magog (false brethren) were also in a race (falsely clinging to Messiah) but their race was in rebellion towards Messiah and his elect.
The blood upto the horses bridles show an imagery of their racing horses they trusted in is sunk in their own blood.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, YAHUAH: let the king hear us when we call.
Now that we have seen the spiritual comparison we can see how close we are to the Ingathering where those who lived in booths i.e. the elect of Messiah who are the true sojourners will be harvested to receive immortality while those who were the pretenders were actually vagabonds in the way of Cain who will be burnt with Alahim's wrath.
Finally let's see the plumbline between the wheat and the tares:
Re 6:9 ¶ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of Alahim, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Yahuah, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
The vision of souls under the altar is an imagery of elect without the body as the kingdom of heaven departed as a scroll (for details please refer to my study on this blog 'Heaven departed as a scroll'). The elect were given white robes to cover their nakedness which show that from Alahim's perspective we are IN CHRIST covered by him but in the world people mock and scoff at us seeing us as uncovered and naked.
When you read the book of Amos we see Amos addresses Alahim as 'Adonay Yahuahh' which in English is translated Yahuah GOD.
Am 7:1 ¶ Thus hath the Yahuah (Adonay) GOD (Yahuahh) shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
This addressing is prophetic of Messiah as the revelation is about him. The disobedience/rebellion of those in the kingdom is towards HIM. The Revelation of who Alahim is.
Finally let's see the plumbline between the wheat and the tares:
Re 6:9 ¶ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of Alahim, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Yahuah, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
The vision of souls under the altar is an imagery of elect without the body as the kingdom of heaven departed as a scroll (for details please refer to my study on this blog 'Heaven departed as a scroll'). The elect were given white robes to cover their nakedness which show that from Alahim's perspective we are IN CHRIST covered by him but in the world people mock and scoff at us seeing us as uncovered and naked.
When you read the book of Amos we see Amos addresses Alahim as 'Adonay Yahuahh' which in English is translated Yahuah GOD.
Am 7:1 ¶ Thus hath the Yahuah (Adonay) GOD (Yahuahh) shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
This addressing is prophetic of Messiah as the revelation is about him. The disobedience/rebellion of those in the kingdom is towards HIM. The Revelation of who Alahim is.
With this in perspective let's read the following verses from Amos
Amos 7:1-9 Thus hath the Yahuah Alahim shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. [2] And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Yahuah Alahim , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. [3] The Yahuah repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Yahuah . [4] Thus hath the Yahuah Alahim shewed unto me: and, behold, the Yahuah Alahim called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. [5] Then said I, O Yahuah Alahim , cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. [6] The Yahuah repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Yahuah Alahim . [7] Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Yahuah stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. [8] And the Yahuah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Yahuah, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: [9] And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Alahim showed Amos that he is going to let loose grasshoppers/locusts at the beginning of the LATTER GROWTH. This beginning of the latter growth happened at Pentecost when the FIRSTFRUITS came in and along with them came the Gentiles/heathen trampling the outer court. These tares were not visible to anyone as it was sealed right unto the end.
Through Amos Alahim shows us the mediation of Messiah for his elect. The locusts in the vision ATE UP ALL THE GREEN GRASS.
In a spiritual comparison we read when the locusts are loosed they are commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither the tree but only those men who have not the seal of Alahim in their foreheads.
Re 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of Alahim in their foreheads.
Lu 22:31 And the Yahuah said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
1Pe 5:8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Am 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Yahuah GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the YAHUAH.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
What a blessed Messiah we have who will not allow the least grain to fall upon the earth because of his MEDIATION.
Coming back to Amos 7:3. When he intercedes for Jacob it repents Alahim of what he is about to do, Amos sees another vision and this time Alahim shows him that with a great fire he is going to devour the deep.
Amos 7:4 Thus hath the Yahuah Alahim shewed unto me: and, behold, the Yahuah Alahim called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. [5] Then said I, O Yahuah Alahim , cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. [6] The Yahuah repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Yahuah Alahim.
Ps 42:6 ¶ O my Alahim, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the YAHUAH will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the Alahim of my life.
The elect were part of the deep waters which we have seen in our previous studies
Ps 29:3 The voice of the YAHUAH is upon the waters: the Alahim of glory thundereth: the YAHUAH is upon many waters.
4 The voice of the YAHUAH is powerful; the voice of the YAHUAH is full of majesty.
The waters stand for this present earth immersed in the wrath of Alahim's judgment and Alahim's voice pierces these waters to reach man but just how? THROUGH DIVERS MANNERS THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of Alahim the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Ge 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Alahim moved upon the face of the waters.
This deep is the VANITY that we are en-capsuled in. We are all creatures of vanity and Messiah plunged into this deep to rescue us from the deep to be caught up to the new heavens and the new earth which stands out of the waters of Alahim's wrath. Peter in 2 Peter 3:5 speaks of Noah's flood as an example of entire mankind being swept by Alahim's wrath by submerging the earth in the deep but Noah and his family found grace in his eyes and he stood above afloat the waters of Alahim's judgment.
Peter then goes on to say that the earth will be devoured by Alahim's fire of wrath in the same chapter.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Yahuah will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 ¶ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
The fervent heat, fire, etc. is also figurative i.e. spiritual hidden in the natural. Let's look at what Paul wrote:
1Co 3:11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Yahusha Messiah.12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Yahusha Messiah.12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Peter mentions about the longsuffering of our Yahuah is salvation and says that even Paul according to the wisdom given to him has written. In the above verses i.e. 1 Corin 3:11-15 we see that all the works of the elect are burned up by fire but they themselves saved by the fire. This is because of the Mediation of Messiah. This is so harmonious with what we read in Amos. When Amos saw in the vision Alahim burning up the deep he interceded for Jacob that he is small and how shall he arise? Alahim repented of this also.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Yahuah is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Then we read in Amos 7 the separation between the BETHEL (house of Alahim) and the Israel of Alahim by the plumbline.
Amos 7:7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Yahuah stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. [8] And the Yahuah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Yahuah, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: [9] And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Am 7:10 ¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel (bayth-ale') for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
bayth-ale' means house of Alahim. Here we see that the house of Alahim has fallen into the hands of a wicked king who set up abominations in it. The elect would have been swept away with the wrath of Alahim as we were all part of Bethel but the mercy of Alahim can be seen by Alahim passing the PLUMBLINE between Bethel and Israel of Alahim. By taking Israel into captivity Alahim is actually showing his mercy on Israel.
Hence Rev 6:9-11 disembodied souls of elect is an imagery to show Alahims plum line which separate the elect from the corrupted kingdom/body.
We were of the same measure of the meal Jezebel sowed leaven into.Of separating us from the corrupt body. Heaven departed as a scroll. We will be clothed with Heavenly glory and till then will be naked in this world but clothed in Alahims eyes. They see us without a covering (naked). That's why people mock us.
Mt 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
One third was part of the two thirds making it three measures. The elect who are the wheat are separated by the plumbline from the measure.
Re 11:1 ¶ And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of Alahim, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
This reed is the same plumbline which measures Alahim's elect to himself while those measured out are in the outer court trampling the outer court.
We see the plumbline every where where Alahim's judgment is mentioned
In Exodus 32 we read of the golden calf (An image which they made of Yahuahh) which Israel made and worshiped when Moses went up the mountain. This angered Alahim that he said he will consume all of them in a moment in his wrath.Moses pleads with Alahim and it repented Alahim not to consume all of them.Moses asked the people who is on the Yahuahs side and who are not.
Exodus 32:10-14 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. [11] And Moses besought the Yahuah his Alahim, and said, Yahuah , why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? [12] Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. [13] Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. [14] And the Yahuah repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Exodus 32:26, 33 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Yahuah's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. [33] And the Yahuah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or NAKEDNESS, or peril, or sword?
Revelation 3:18-19 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy NAKEDNESS do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. [19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
We see this nakedness of Alahim's people as he asked them to be stripped of all their ornaments by mount Horeb the mount of Alahim.
Exodus 33:4-6 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. [5] For the Yahuah had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. [6] And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
False prophets who have come out of the church claim that they never fornicated with the whore or had a golden calf doctrine are liars and deceived. They have come out of the church but are still holding on to the golden calf doctrines. They think that they are spared from Alahim's wrath but they are measured by the plumbline to be part of Mystery Babylon as Mystery Babylon is a spiritual kingdom within the kingdom of heaven. The elect realize their sin of fornication.
Jeremiah is asked to take the cup of his fury and cause all nations to whom Alahim is sending him to drink it. Then the nations who will drink it as listed. Egypt, Philistines, Edom, Moab, Ammon etc were false brethren of Israel who would be among those who would drink of the cup of Alahim's fury and Israel also was not spared from this drinking. Read on below to see the names of nations listed.
Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the YAHUAH, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jer 25:15 ¶ For thus saith the YAHUAH Alahim of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the YAHUAH'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the YAHUAH had sent me:
18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the YAHUAH of hosts, the Alahim of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the YAHUAH of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the YAHUAH of hosts.
Jer 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the YAHUAH: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jer 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the YAHUAH: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
The seventy years of captivity under king of Babylon was a type of the elect going into captivity. The number seventy is figurative to us and represents the 7 beastly rules of Satan * 10 their completeness of rule.
The whole body of Messiah is viewed under this Seventy symbolic rule as the violent took the kingdom of heaven by force.
But the separation of wheat and tares would happen right at the end and the last days began at Pentecost when all those in Messiah were measured by the plumbline unto Messiah. This measure included all the OT saints as well who were dead or alive because they observed the feast of weeks in Messiah.
Ac 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith Alahim, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
These last days as stated in prophecy of Joel was viewed by Amos in his vision of the locusts eating the the grass in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth. This is Pentecost/feast of weeks in view (both OT & NT) where Satan came in sowing his tares. if you read the parable of wheat and tares Messiah did not allow his wheat to be rooted up with the tares until the feast of Ingathering (Feast of Tabernacles). By Satan sowing the tares in the kingdom Messiah did not allow his wheat to be destroyed with the tares and hence the threshing floor of Great Tribulation would determine who are measured into Messiah and who are not measured into Messiah. We are right there at the doors.
Am 7:1 ¶ Thus hath the Yahuah GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Mt 13:29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Mt 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
These last days as stated in prophecy of Joel was viewed by Amos in his vision of the locusts eating the the grass in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth. This is Pentecost/feast of weeks in view (both OT & NT) where Satan came in sowing his tares. if you read the parable of wheat and tares Messiah did not allow his wheat to be rooted up with the tares until the feast of Ingathering (Feast of Tabernacles). By Satan sowing the tares in the kingdom Messiah did not allow his wheat to be destroyed with the tares and hence the threshing floor of Great Tribulation would determine who are measured into Messiah and who are not measured into Messiah. We are right there at the doors.
Am 7:1 ¶ Thus hath the Yahuah GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Mt 13:29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Mt 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
This separation is painful and was unexplained to elect until Messiah opened the understanding of the visions right at the end just before he comes.
By the judgment we see One third which was part of the two third making it three measures were separated and refined through fire by captivity & sword of Alahim's judgment. But mercy rejoiceth against judgment because of Messiah's plumbline. The Yahuah repented of the evil he would measure to creatures of vanity by giving us a glorious hope in Messiah.
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