Day 363

December 29th
Revelation 11:1-14:20.  “Harvest Time”
Jesus said, “I assure you, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life.  They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life” (John 5:24).
The picture at the end of Revelation 14 of Christ swinging the sharp sickle over the earth is a solemn one.  At that point it will be “harvest time.”  In the Gospel of John, chapter four verse 35, there is a Gospel harvest explained: "The fields are white and ready to harvest."  A continual harvest of people ready to be saved by the Gospel is out there waiting to hear from us.  However, there is a time limit, an expiration date.  And that is when this next harvest arrives; the harvest of judgment: "The harvest is the end of the age" (Matt. 13:39).  For the believer this harvest takes us home.  For the unbeliever it is every bit as grim as it sounds.  “God will come …with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know Him …they will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power” (2 Thes. 1:8-10).