In Matthew 24, Yeshua (Jesus) makes an interesting correlation between the end of the age and a woman giving birth. [Matthew 24:8]. As the birth of a baby draws near, the birth pangs intensify, and the timing between pangs becomes shorter and shorter, eventually leading to the climatic moment of birth. The world is now in the middle of a prophetic birthing cycle. No one can deny that the birth pangs have been intensifying , but the key to knowing that birth is near is that moments before a baby is born, the WATER BREAKS. I believe we are about to embark on that pivotal moment in history.
We could very well be experiencing a monumental, prophetic, water breaking event in our very near future, a gushing outbreak of the outpouring of God’s Spirit and a harvest of multitudes.
When the church age began, every believer was Jewish. However, when non-jewish Cornelius came to faith – the Apostles realized the message of the gospel was not only for the Jewish people, but also for the Gentiles. In the first century, the Jewish apostles gathered in Jerusalem to determine what to do about the issue of Gentiles coming to faith (ironically, today the church is trying to figure out what to do with all these Jewish people coming to faith). But it is in the midst of this meeting, James stands up and quotes Amos 9. We read in Acts 15,
Acts 15:13-18 After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written, “‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.‘
When James quotes this passage of Amos 9, it was only PARTIALLY FULFILLED!
If we read this passage in its entirety, we discover these events are now being fulfilled before our eyes.
Amos 9:11-12 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the Gentiles, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Amos 9:14-15 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Along with the Gentiles coming into the Kingdom is the promise that God will restore the Jewish people back to their land and rebuild the waste cities and inhabit them. This prophecy could not be fulfilled unless the Jewish people were first expelled from the land, only to return many years later. This passage in Amos is being fulfilled in our generation.
If we look closely, the central theme of this passage is the HARVEST. In verse 13, Amos says,
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
The Keil – Delitzsch commentary on this particular verse explains it this way.
The ploughman will reach to the reaper.” Even while the one is engaged in ploughing the land for the sowing, the other will already be able to cut ripe corn; so quickly will the corn grow and ripen. And the treading of the grapes will last to the sowing-time, so abundant will the vintage be.
Prophetically, Amos declares that the harvest will be so ABUNDANT, that reaping and sowing will take place simultaneously!
Yeshua (Jesus) describes the world as His great harvest field, and in the parable given in Matthew 13, He says,
Mat 13:24-30 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.‘”
The Lord declared that the wheat and the tares were to grow side by side together. As we see the tares, that is, the evils of this world manifesting, we also need to be mindful the wheat is also ripening right along with it!
Below is a chart of the population of the world since the birth of the Messiah.
As you can see, the population of the world in the above graph was essentially flat for 1900 years. It took nearly 1900 years to get to the first billion. From the 1930’s to now, the population grew exponentially to seven and a half billion.
For those first 1900 years, there were an estimated 4-5 billion people that lived on the earth. Let us suppose for a moment, that only ten percent of those 4-5 billion people came to a saving knowledge of the Lord. This would mean for the first 1900 years, an estimated 400,000,000 to 500,000,000 million people in the world came to faith.
Today, before our very eyes, we are seeing the world’s population grow to over 7 billion people! And if we suppose the same scenario of ten percent, then in our generation alone, there will be 700,000,000 or so people come to faith! This season, we may see nearly double the number of people entering the Kingdom then all 1900 or so years combined! That’s HUGE!
I urge you, brothers and sisters, we are alive for the greatest opportunity that any generation has ever had! Now is not the time to cower in fear — now is the day of salvation!
I strongly encourage you to listen to my message — This is not the end of the world!
Excellent thoughts and I am ready for the marriage of the LAMB
I am excited to be on the edge of the great outpouring and so eager to be a worker in God’s fields at this time.
No doubt about it, but as it was when Yeshua first came, so it is with his kingdom. The Church age is ending, what transpires as a result of that in which Christianity, true following God’s own Word come Incarnate, is Messiah’s kingdom, the very kingdom of God, of heaven, as he called it. There is no word “church” as God’s Word was given. Anyone can look that up for themselves. It is Rome that created that word, and King Henry VIII of England who insisted on it. The same with King James I (and II) of the KJV, he too insisted against the translators superior knowledge on it, that the word “Church” remain. So, what do we have without churches (which all belong to Rome, anyway)? We have the bride of Messiah, laid out all over the Earth, where some of our greatest saints are now “asleep” and some who are as yet, unborn-again, with us, we who worship and adore the only Living God, the Holy One of Israel and His Word. Soon, Yeshua will come to take “She” whom he will receive unto himself, just as the custom he explained was, where the groom prepares a place, and then comes to take her to be with him. Known to the first disciples as “the marriage feast of the lamb.” How many of us know, “Come out from her”? The KJV is 85% William Tynedale’s work, copied from Tyndale’s (the first) translation from the oldest texts then available, into English. He and Martin Luther were only 9-10 years apart, Martin in Germany doing the same. Yet, Martin had first been indoctrinated into the Roman Catholic Church and only came back out of that brainwashing so far, before he died. And Tynedale was killed. It is only by following Yeshua risen, and alive, that any of us warrants eternal salvation. We are faithful, because He is faithful to call us to repentance when we lose our way, and hold onto us when we fail him, just as Peter’s faith finally received it’s reward. Yeshua is “the Way.” That Way is through and by his shed blood on calvary. We are not here to be locked up in a church, we are here to follow the Messiah, into his messianic kingdom. Christian, Messianic, M. Nazarene, Jew, Gentile, all who can’t figure it out…all.
The Church age ended. “The Church” is the crux of Supersessionism aka Replacement Theology. What it should have said, all along, and William Tynedale said it, when he did the first English translation. 85% of the KJV is his work, which he was killed for. It should have said “Messiah’s community.” Or how about what Jesus (Y’shua) called it, “the kingdom of God” aka “the kingdom of heaven.” That word Church belongs to Rome. Let them keep it and go fellowship with true Believer’s. If you need a sign, have a look at how God shut down churches all around the planet, Rome’s too. Talk about looking backwards, Lot’s wife.