Signs of the End Times – Part 1

The Harvest of the Lord IS Come

Peter and Rohnel, called to be ministers of the Gospel, to the scattered saints who share a like precious faith. Grace and peace upon the Israel of God and those to whom the Lord is being revealed in these last days. May the Lord give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation into the knowledge of Him.

The Scriptures are written in parables and speak of spiritual truths and prophecies which the Lord’s chosen people fulfill in the appointed time. When the Lord has mercy and opens eyes, we begin to understand that the Scriptures are not principally speaking about outward events or intended to be history lessons. Instead, they are prophecies and judgments that the Lord’s chosen people, His Elect, fulfill in the appointed times. The hearing of the Gospel redeems us to God, and now all things are ours to be fulfilled.

1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 

1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 

1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s. 

We become the blessed people of God when we can read, hear, and keep the things written in the Scriptures. It is all the work of the Lord, who shows mercy and opens eyes and ears to the parables and hidden Wisdom of the Commandments. The time of salvation is come and has been coming in every generation since Christ ascended back to the Father. The time is now at hand.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. 

The coming of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the coming of the Commandments into our lives. The Commandments, the living Word, bring about the end of our bondage to the law of sin in our members and, in time, manifest the righteousness of Jesus Christ in our lives. The many end-time prophecies speak of our conversion from the man of sin to the man of God, being children of God by the resurrection from spiritual death. These prophecies declare the making of a new heaven and a new earth within us, where the Living Christ dwells and from which His righteousness, meaning our obedience, comes forth.

2Pe 3:13  Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 

Isa 45:8  Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. 

Salvation is the Lord’s work and is the remaking process of the Potter. With open eyes [mercy] and truth [the Commandments], coming together, we are clothed in the righteousness of the Lord that rules in our heaven. We are obtaining the mind of Christ at the time of the end.

Psa 85:10  Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 

Psa 85:11  Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 

The time of the end is the last days of our carnally minded way of life. The coming of the Lord sets us free from the bondage that our father, the devil, had bound us with for our entire lives. When Christ comes, the Commandments come, and the Kingdom of God is being established in our hearts and minds. Those given ears to hear and eyes to see understand, and their focus is turned inwardly to the kingdom of God that is now within them. All the evil and lusts that come from within us begin to be taken away and replaced with the fruits of the Spirit of God now living in us. What comes out of a man defiles a man, and in the same way, what comes out of a man tells us who is of God and who is not.

Mar 7:23  All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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Mat 7:18  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 

Mat 7:20  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 

The end comes by way of the Word, the Wisdom and Understanding that is the Holy Spirit, known as the Promise of God. Our eyes are turned inward to the living grace of God that has brought judgment, and the light shining into our hearts and minds reveals the wicked man.

Job 38:36  Who hath put wisdom [Christ] in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding [The Father] to the heart? 

Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 

The end of the man of sin begins as the end times are at hand, and the purposes of the Lord are being accomplished in this day.

2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. 

When we hear the Gospel preached, Christ is near. The last times have come upon us as we are resurrected from spiritual death. The Commandments wash us of our sins and prepare us for the Spirit to be revealed in us in the last time, which is our inheritance as Sons of God.

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

1Pe 1:4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. 

The Lord’s covenant is only consummated after many days of our walking in rebellion against our Maker. But after those days, in the last days, the Commandments, the Law of God, come to live in our inward parts and then, through many trials, are written into our hearts and minds. The promise of God, the new covenant, comes to fruition at the time of the end.

Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 

The hearing of the Gospel ushers in the time of the end. The Christ we knew about in the flesh gives way to the Living Christ that we know in the Spirit of the Commandments. The hidden mystery of God, the Gospel, is revealed and received into our hearts. When the Gospel is preached, the time is now at hand, and the beginning of the process to put off the old man and put on the new man.

Mar 1:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 

Open eyes draw us near, yet the time of the end is not yet. Every stone in the old temple within us is torn down. The history of the physical temple in Jerusalem shadows what takes place inwardly in our hearts and minds. Disciples are keen to know about the times of the end, and thus Christ is often asked. The Scriptures tell us of many signs of the times and of the general process to expect at the end. We wait for the Spirit of Christ to come in the appointed hour to rebuild the Temple of God within us, watching for the progression of the signs of the end.

Mat 24:3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the age?

Mat 24:6  And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

When the Living Christ is revealed, a new age of worship has dawned. We now know and worship the Father and the Son in Spirit and in Truth. To be worshipping this way, we are given the Promise, also known as the Spirit of Truth. The time is now; we have entered the last days.

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

The shadows of the Old Testament and the similitudes spoken by the Prophets [Hos 12:10] speak to the same mystery and plan of God. When our ears hear the law of God, the end has come upon us. The Feast of Tabernacles symbolizes our celebration of the Lord’s harvest of the saints when He comes to dwell in us as the Promise. When the saints come together to break bread, we read and study His law that is the Gospel, and it is a holy day when it is received into our hearts. The wall of the temple and the temple itself are under construction within our hearts and minds.

Neh 8:9  And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. 

Deu 31:11  When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 

Our understanding of the Gospel is the blessing of God and begins the time of the end. The prophecies written about this time in our walk do not read like a blessing to carnal eyes and ears. Those so blessed have been born anew as Sons of God and are now being chastened and scourged as sons of the Most High.

Eze 7:2  Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

Eze 7:3  Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

To change our hearts and minds, the Lord brings us an experience of evil to humble us and expose our darkest sins. These evils, called sore travails in some translations, turn into a blessing in the latter end as the new man, Christ in us, comes forth from the whirlwind.

Eze 7:5  Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

Eze 7:6  An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

The Father has already determined the time of our salvation and sends Christ to perform it. Wherever the Living Word is sent, it prospers, and all is fulfilled in the appointed time of the end. The last days are symbolized by the 70 spiritual weeks of Daniel. We endure troubling times as we prepare for Christ’s return. The streets and walls being built again are our baptism of John, and the oil we are putting into our lamps as we, the Bride of Christ, wait and watch for the Messiah to come.

Dan 9:24  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Dan 9:25  Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

When the troublous times start, the end is not yet, as now we tarry for the Messiah to come and confirm the covenant when the Promise comes to us, and we are born again in the power of the Holy Spirit.  Thus begins the last week, the very last days during which salvation, the work of the Lord, is completed.  Part 2 of this study explores further the prophecies regarding the final week, the latter days before we finish the race.

As God’s people, we eat the Gospel as our spiritual food. We are chosen not only to believe on Him but to suffer for His Name’s sake. Our suffering is the great tribulation, the high costs we pay to follow Christ and wait on the blessing of salvation. The great tribulation is a definitive sign of the end times and the coming springing forth of righteousness in God’s chosen vessels. Judgment by the Word brings suffering and tribulation into view.

Eze 2:8  But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

Eze 2:9  And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

Eze 2:10  And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

The mystery of God is finished when we hear the sound of the Gospel declared by the Lord’s Prophets. The Lord leads us to an angel of the Lord raised to preach the Gospel, and we take and eat of the Book, thus initiating the time of the end for sin and our bondage to the flesh.

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 
Rev 10:8  And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 
Rev 10:9  And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 
Rev 10:10  And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 

The saints make our calling and election sure, enduring through these troublous times, the many tribulations, all the way to the end of our physical lives. Christ and His angels speak of the great tribulation that comes at the end and brings forth the new man, the saints of the Most High God. There is no other way to enter into the Kingdom of God and become a partaker of His holiness.

Mat 24:21  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

We wash our robes by the Commandments that take away the old life.

Rev 7:13  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

After the Gospel has been preached, the Commandments become our focus. The last days have come, and we are hearing God through the Words of the Son. When the Promise comes, the Lord Himself, the anointing within us, teaches every man by the indwelling Spirit of Grace.

Heb 1:2  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds

Joh 6:45  It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

 The Lord’s Harvest

The Power of the Gospel, as we hear from heaven, keeps us faithful and waiting for salvation, which is the overcoming of sins and the appearing of Christ in our deeds. Salvation appears and is completed at the very end and comes about little by little as we grow and mature in grace and knowledge of Christ and the Father.

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1Pe 1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

The Lord has a Christ that He raises and who performs the greater works in bringing the Gospel to those appointed to receive it. The church of God is the cloud of many witnesses who have come through the door of Christ and have been made shepherds of the sheep by the appointment of the Lord. When our words, the Gospel, are heard and understood, the heavens of our hearers are shaken of all things they once believed. When we see this in ourselves, our redemption by the Lord has drawn near.

Luk 21:26  Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Luk 21:27  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Luk 21:28  And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Lord’s harvest of souls is salvation coming at the end of the acceptable year of the Lord. The harvest of the earth, which earth we are, occurs after the angels preach the Gospel and we hear that Babylon within [heaven shaking] is fallen. The Lord sends His angels to reap those prepared of God, by the Word that is the Commandments. Reaping is accomplished by thrusting in the sharp sickle that is the Living Commandments into the earth. Thrusting in the Commandments is having the Living Christ be formed within those who hear. It hastens the time of the end as the Lord does a short work in the earth.

Rev 14:15  And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

Rev 14:16  And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

Once the earth is reaped, a new angel emerges from the Temple, and thus the fire of the Gospel spreads, and more children of the resurrection, saints of God, are born. When the Promise comes, the Lord has raised us to go and preach His Gospel and reap the earth of those He is sending us to.

Rev 14:17  And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

Rev 14:18  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.

Rev 14:19  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 God.

Those who obey the call and thrust in the sickle gain victory over their beast and soon stand upon the sea, representing the desires of our flesh. These are becoming the saints, clothed by Christ and given overcoming by enduring through the seven last plagues.   Reading past the man-made chapter break at the end of Revelation 14, we see this declared.

Rev 15:1  And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

Rev 15:2  And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

If one has heard the Gospel and received it as Truth, the day of harvest of the earth is TODAY. The Lord is the Great I AM. Thus, if we hear His Gospel, we are being gathered into His barn TODAY. There is no boasting about tomorrow; today is the day. When the Lord comes for salvation, it is the end. The time, the day of salvation, is now.

2Co 6:1  We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2Co 6:2  For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

The Scriptures have been unsealed for us in this little flock. The time of the end has come upon us. We are ready, awake, and watching as we prepare for the Lord’s return to bring His Promise. The revelation of Jesus Christ, within ourselves and without, is nigh.

Dan 12:9  And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

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1Co 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Those being saved in this age are being saved to be put to work in the ministry of the Gospel. Ministers are used of the Lord to save others both now and in the next age. The Lord is raising labourers to work in His vineyard and perform the greater works. When we are given to know these things, know you are being prepared as a minister, a priest, a king over your own earth to be used of God.

Joh 14:12  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

In the time of the end, we are given both Wisdom and Understanding, the indwelling Gospel, and the Holy Spirit. All the prophecies and parables are being made known to us, not for our glory but to bring forth His glory. We are being shown things to come so we can perform our duties in our labour and service to the Lord.

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Amo 3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. 

Praying for labourers is asking the Lord to send His Promise and to raise more angels, children of the resurrection, to spread the Gospel and grow the church of God.

Mat 9:37  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;

Mat 9:38  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

In the second part of this study on the end times, we review many of the signs given for us to watch for so we do not miss the Lord’s coming. The most well-known Scriptures, such as Matthew 24 and Luke 21, as well as the Prophets and Revelation, are seen in a new light once the Gospel is revealed. To stay on the narrow road and follow Christ until the end, we are aware of the signs of the end, so we are not deceived and led astray.

Luk 21:7  And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

Luk 21:8  And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

Luk 21:9  But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

The Lord rewards those who diligently seek Him and understand His ways. We pray that a zeal and hunger and thirst for righteousness be given to all those who tarry and break bread with us.

Part 2 of the study will be linked here and posted separately as soon as the Lord permits.