The harvest should be taken to represent final judgment, which is coincidental with the Kingdom of God in its completeness.
>
>"This mission of the Paraclete, like that of Jesus Himself, is two-
> sided; for to the world which has rejected Christ it brings
> judgement... This cannot take place until Jesus has been exalted
> (17:7).”Dictionary of the Bible...
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> But we will overcome those against us, even if it is the entire SY
> organization itself. The Last Judgment CANNOT take place until Jesus
> has been exalted. The Paraclete has done just that for more than
> three decades. We must sustain Her work without any fear and
> make sure the rest of humanity realizes it is the promised Blossom
> Time. There is no question that the Paraclete and Lord Jesus will
> triumph.
>
The harvest should be taken to represent final judgment, which is coincidental with the Kingdom of God in its completeness.
A large part of the content of Jesus' teaching relating to the
Kingdom of God that has been preserved is in the form of parables,
which are metaphors or similes used as means of describing the nature
of the Kingdom of God.
1.2.1. Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Seed Growing by Itself)
26 And he said," The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter
seed upon the ground, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and
the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28 The earth
produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full
grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in
the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
In a parable unique to Mark, Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to the
event of a seed that is sown, grows without the help of human beings
and culminates in a harvest. The parable consists of three sentences:
4:26-27; 4:28; 4:29. The first sentence contains three sets of verbs
in the subjunctive controlled by"As," and focuses on a man who sows.
The focus of the second sentence is on the growth of what was sown,
describing the three stages of growth: blade, head and ripe grain;
this continues the theme of growth from the end of the first
sentence. The third sentence has three verbs, and in it the man who
sowed reappears, but this time as the reaper. The idea of the ripe
grain connects 4:28 with 4:29. The emphasis of the parable has been
placed upon the one who sows the seed, on the growth of the seed and
the contrast between the seed sown and the harvest, on the earth and
its incomprehensible power to bring forth grain apart from all human
effort or on the harvest. It is advisable to allow for more than one
emphasis, so that the parable is interpreted allegorically, as making
several, interrelated points using metaphors; this means that the
several interpretations of the parable thought to be mutually
exclusive are actually compatible. (In fact, it is difficult to keep
the various proposed interpretations discrete, since they tend to
overlap one another.)
The fact that Jesus compares the Kingdom to a seed growing towards
maturity implies that he sees the Kingdom of God as a historical
process that has a beginning and an end. In spite of the differences
between a seed and a fully grown plant there is an identity and
continuity between them. So likewise the Kingdom of God as already
present, but inconspicuous, will progress towards its
incontrovertible completeness. (Jesus' interest is the two extreme
stages of the Kingdom, rather than the intermediate stages.) Given
the unexpected stress on the seed's growth as independent of all
assistance from human beings, Jesus is also making the point that the
Kingdom is outside of the control of human beings; in the same way
that a plant grows without human assistance," all by itself"
(automatê) regardless of what the sower does subsequently ("night and
day, whether he sleeps or gets up"), the Kingdom of God ineluctably
and necessarily grows until it reaches its completion. The statement
that the sower does not know how the seed grows (4:27: "though he
does not know how") likewise contributes to idea of the Kingdom as
outside of the control of human beings. The harvest should be taken
to represent final judgment, which is coincidental with the Kingdom
of God in its completeness; it will come inevitably, according to
God's own timing. Mark 4:29b"He puts in the sickle because the
harvest has arrived"Is likely an allusion to eschatological judgment
in Joel 4[3]:13. It is also possible that Jesus intended the sower
and the reaper be identified with himself; in this case Jesus as
the"sower"Is the mediator of the Kingdom of God, the one through
whom God's saving power is introduced into history, but as
the"reaper"Is also the one through whom final judgment will be
executed.
http://www.abu.nb.ca/Courses/NTIntro/KingdGod2.htm
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