Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Harvest Is Abundant. I Mean Really Abundant!

NOW AFTER this the Lord chose and appointed seventy others and sent them out ahead of Him, two by two, into every town and place where He Himself was about to come (visit). And He said to them, The harvest indeed is abundant [there is much ripe grain], but the farmhands are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Luke 10:1-3
Jesus tells us that the harvest is great, but the laborers are few. We are not told that the harvest is small, but that it is abundant. If your experience is anything like mine, you were always told that only a small percentage of mankind would be saved, meaning a very small harvest. But the glorious Truth is that Jesus told us that the harvest is great. Jesus was successful and because of what He accomplished for us as a perfect Sacrifice, there is going to be a bountiful harvest.
I want you to think about this question: are the laborers the same as the grain? Jesus tells us that the harvest is great, but the laborers are few. The laborers are not the harvest, the grain is the harvest, the two are not the same. What am I getting at? The Parable of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Matthew 22:10. When our Father returns to the earth it will be filled with guests. The Bride is not a guest at her own wedding. This parable ties in with the Truth that Jesus told us that there are only a few laborers, or a few who are the Bride. Many are called to be the Bride but only a few of us are chosen to be. Many are called to serve, but only a few are chosen to serve. However the harvest, which are the guests, is great.
I hope you see the grace of our Father. Most of humanity will not be thrown into the Lake of Fire. There will be some who are, there is a Hell. But far more of us will not be thrown into Hell then who will be thrown into it. When our Father returns to dwell on the earth it will be filled with people. Some of us as the Bride, we will be transformed to be just like Jesus is and we will serve with Him for all of eternity. Some of us will be the guests who have been raised up from the dead and some of us will be the guests who never died. The glorious Truth is that most of us will be able to participate in eternity in one form or another.

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