There Are Three Harvests

Choose Wisely said:

You are however confusing first fruits. First fruits is not a harvest but a declaration of an acceptable harvest to come.

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The First Fruits is not a harvest. It is bringing the first ripe sheaf to the priest for a wave offering. If the wave offering is acceptable it is a promise or guarantee of the harvest to come. Nothing was to be eaten from the fields until the wave offering was made and accepted.

Jesus was the first fruits of them who slept. He was perfect and acceptable unto God. His acceptance is a guarantee of a future harvest.

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I understand your use of the first fruits: but in application: it is in question, especially when Jesus is the firstfruits of them who slept.

Matthew 27:52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Was that the first harvest? Not really.

Seeing how Jesus referred to false prophets and how many shall be led astray in Matthew 7:13-27 & Luke 13:24-30: those that were shut out were not gathered with the OT saints in being made to sit down to a meal. Jesus was speaking of a yet future gathering of saints in the latter days that His disciples would participate in as in sitting with the OT saints.

The thing I have come across in regards to the Jewish traditional honeymoon is that the bridegroom goes away to prepare the place where they will live for the bride. When He receives the bride into the home: the honeymoon traditionally lasts seven weeks. This is the time when the couple gets to know one another intimately to function as a unit.

Would not the Marriage Supper of the Lamb follow after the pattern?

John 14: 1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

So where is the risen Saviour now? In Heaven at the right hand of God the Father. That is the place Jesus said He was going to and will come again to receive us to that place.

Can one say that the seven year great tribulation for those that were not watching and were not ready and thus were of the foolish virgins is the seven weeks of this Marriage Supper of the Lamb for those that were watching and were ready?

It would explain how Christ can return with the saints to confront Satan and his armies and yet after Satan's defeat and gets thrown in the pit: then the "first resurrection" will occur of the slain saints coming out of the great tribulation. So what saints did Christ come back with?

Revelation 20: 1And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

I submit that the "first" of the "first resurrection" was alluding to the resurrection in respect of those coming out of the great tribulation to differentiate from the rest of the dead that shall be resurrected later, thus being the "first" in regards to the rest of the dead to be resurrected later since it will be obvious that it was not THE actual first resurrection.

Indeed: Matthew 27:52-53 would be contrary to that notion.

So the firstfruits: the blessedness of participating in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb would show Christ presentation of Himself with the bride as the first ripe sheaf.

Remember as you read this below: it is also in with the promise of being recieved to His Father's mansion. John 14:1-4

John 14: 19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you..... 23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

So there is a hidden promise coming that is beyond the promise of the Holy Spirit for all those that believe as it pertains to following His voice: loving Him and His words in order to be received for this abode.

John 17: 6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are

So I submit that Christ being the firstfruits is alot more than just first ripe sheaf because the presentation of Him and the bride being one with Him declares the acceptableness of what Christ has done being the firstfruits.