By Matthew Robert Payne Revelation 14:18-20 (New King James Version) 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. 19 So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs. There exists a lot of excitement among many circles and prophesies starting to abound about a great harvest that is coming. In fact, it has been prophesied by true prophets and prophets whose words have already been proven true for centuries. Most of the Christian church are excited about a last days revival and a last days church and most think its going to happen before a rapture. God speaks in Revelation about this great harvest, but instead of one harvest there are two, one for the wicked, one for the righteous. Which harvest are you part of? Who is wicked you might ask? A person who grew up knowing right from wrong and choosing to do wrong? Or someone who grew up with nothing but wrong around him and grew up doing wrong? I feel the first person is more wicked! Consider that when you read the following passage. Malachi 4:1-3 (New King James Version) 1 For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up, Says the LORD of hosts, That will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves. 3 You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this, Says the LORD of hosts. You see here that the wicked will be trampled by the righteous like grapes? A similar reference is found in Revelation 11 Revelation 11:1-2 (New King James Version) 1 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. 2 But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. You see the LORD is going to allow a great slaughter come upon the earth and its going to be a great harvest. Jeremiah speaks of it. Jeremiah 25:30-31 (New King James Version)30 Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: The LORD will roar from on high, And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise will come to the ends of the earth For the LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will plead His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked to the sword, says the LORD. This is a very scary harvest because right in the midst of this harvest the shepherds are going to be wailing as the LORD judges them. Jeremiah 25:34-38 (New King James Version) 34 Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel. 35 And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture, 37 And the peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He has left His lair like the lion; For their land is desolate Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor, And because of His fierce anger. And why are the shepherds in trouble? Jeremiah 23:10-11 (New King James Version) 10 For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD. And the adulterers are?James 4:4 (New King James Version)4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. You cannot be a friend of the world and a friend of Gods. You have to be holy and set apart for Jesus Christ. You cannot love the world and love God also. And people who are teaching this deception are in great error, who teach that you can serve mammon and God at the same time. All they seem to prophesy is great peace and prosperity and revival and for preaching that nice prediction of peace they get paid handsomely. Jeremiah speaks of them. Jeremiah 23:16-17 (New King James Version) 16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD. 17 They continually say to those who despise Me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, No evil shall come upon you. On the people who know what good is and refuse to do it, God has only bad news. And today we are in the latter days. Jeremiah 23:19-20 (New King James Version) 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly. There are so many dreams and visions being expounded these days but there seems no hard rebukes for the church. The church needs to repent in ashes and humility before the Lord. All these sweet prophecies from dreams and visions the LORD speaks about. Jeremiah 23:28-29 (New King James Version) 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD. 29 Is not My word like a fire? says the LORD, And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? The last days church, God is going to raise up the five fold ministry and many churches are going to start small with unqualified and untrained shepherds and apostles save training by the Holy Spirit and massive signs and wonders are going to be wrought in these churches. The churches will be wild and grow fast and they will link up, but will mainly be outside of the mainline denominations. Sightings of Jesus will be reported among them and the healings and signs and wonders and the un-conformity among these churches and apostles and prophets will see the new movement branded as a cult. In the parable where Jesus said the rich man invited all his rich friends to a banquet, the rich friends all made excuses and did not come. In fact in one reading of the parable they even beat and killed the servants that were sent to announce the banquet. The prophets are already waring the church of Christs imminent judgement and calling them to repent and be holy and set apart and start to store their treasure in heaven and not on earth. By in large these small prophets such as me are being told to shut up and not to prophesy doom. Then the master of the feast sends out the invitation to the people on the hi-ways and the by-ways. In the West this is the homeless, the heroin addicts, the drunks, the prostitutes and the homosexuals and every other sort of the person the middle class church does not welcome in their ranks. This new church will create a massive movement and send out the open invitation to the hi-ways and by-ways people. The poor, the downtrodden, the addicted and the hopeless and they will stitch them up and heal them and teach them to prosper. And these people will tithe and give a lot of their money to the church and the signs and wonders will be powerful in this church. The true sheep, the people in other churches who dont mind mixing with the downtrodden will also come to the light and begin to worship and sell houses and sell shares and lay up their riches to this new movement that has powerful evangelists working full time in each suburb. Now the new church is going to be mainly made up with prodigal sons and when the Father welcomes them to the feast there is going to spring up jealously among the traditional church, or the older brother in the prodigal son parable. The older brothers are going to be invited into the feast and the new church, but most of them will be too angry and rather call the new churches cults and its leaders false prophets. The people who have been believers for twenty and thirty years will be very indignant that new believers in this church will be given a church to pastor within six months of being saved and this new church will be growing at a massive rate, because the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit will be found in it and the common man will be flocking to their services and outreaches to be healed. The people who are saved for years in the traditional churches will want the anointing of this new church and will complain to the Father in heaven at the injustice of it all saying that they have worked for 12 hours and through the heat of the day and yet these workers of the last hour are getting paid the same as them. And as the new church explodes and grows the shepherds in the old traditional churches will begin to lose their flock and their income will be plundered and the revival will pass them by. So my question is Which harvest are you going to be in? The harvest of the wicked or the righteous? 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