Preparing For The Harvest — Part 1

Over the past few years, we have heard much of the coming Harvest.

However, in many of The Churches I have ministered in over the last few years, I have seen very little preparation for the coming great Harvest of souls that God is preparing to Harvest.

It seems like a great portion of the body of Christ is expecting a huge Harvest of souls, but very little preparation has been made to accommodate and steward this Harvest.

There is a universal expectation of an impending move of the Spirit of God that will sweep millions of souls into the Kingdom, but we act as if we don’t believe it.

When the Soviet Union opened up to religious freedom, many sects and cults were ready to move in with strategy and vision and The Church was woefully unprepared.

It is true that we are seeing in many parts of the world a large increase in those coming to The LORD, but this is nothing to what is looming on the horizon in terms of the magnitude of this impending Harvest.

Time is running out

In the mid 90s, The LORD gave me three dreams in regard to the Harvest.

In the first dream I was walking along a beach on a very sunny day. It was calm and people were having a relaxing time playing and sunbathing.

I looked out to sea and on the far horizon I saw the water mound up into a very large swell. As I watched, this the swell began to rise up into a large wave; at this point the wave was still very far out on the horizon.

About five years later, I had another similar dream but this time the wave was very large and was much closer to the shore.

The wave contained, or was embedded, with millions of people; it was a wave of people —- a Harvest wave.

Those on the beach seemed oblivious to this wave, which was about to crash onto the shore. I tried to warn the people but they seemed unconcerned and ignored me.

In fact, I felt that some of them were going to attack me . The wave finally broke on the shore with great force and power. I braced myself, but the wave swept over me and I was unharmed.

I turned, looking to see how far the wave had swept inland, and to my great amazement it had continued in inland as far as I could see. It was then that I noticed the damage this wave had caused.

I had expected to see the whole landscape to be devastated by the force of this wave, but this was not the case; only certain buildings had been destroyed.

As I surveyed the damage, it became apparent that many Churches had collapsed, and a number of government buildings also had been destroyed.

In the third dream there was no visible Church. There were just people filled with light, power and glory spreading across the earth like a mighty wave.

These people were invincible, although many of them offered themselves to become martyrs. This was The Final Harvest. There was very little distance between the second and third waves. More of this later.

I pondered these dreams, seeking to understand the spiritual significance and The Holy Spirit began to give me some insight.

In the second dream, The Churches which had collapsed (which appeared to be the majority of them) were not ready for this Harvest.

The government buildings were those departments of government, which in the past had handled the needs of its citizens — mainly social services.

The abuse of citizens by many of these government departments over the past years has been frightening.

I began to see how this Harvest wave of millions of people would destroy The Church as we know it now.

The Church is about to undergo a complete reformation and when The LORD has finished with it, the latter will have no resemblance to the former.

In one generation The LORD will change the face of The Church in this world. This new force of Christians in the earth began to take over many of the roles of government in social services.

Along with this great Harvest wave, many of the seemingly rock-solid intuitions of this modern world will begin to collapse.

I saw superannuation funds collapse, government pension funds dried up, many banks went under and after a while, governments could no longer bail them out.

Many governments were financially bled dry by the enormous costs created by the consequences of earthquake and flood damage as great storms ravaged many nations.

The devaluation of currencies added to these crises. During this time, the true church began to flourish. Many of God’s people had prepared for this upheaval.

I saw orphanages arise, along with hospitals, which not only catered for the physical needs of the people but also their spiritual needs.

It was as though The Church had taken over all of the government social services. Joseph ministries began to flourish and huge resources were made available to The Church.

A new paradigm, a new mindset is needed

Pastors and leaders must take on a Kingdom emphasis and mindset.

The Church Age must give way to the Kingdom Age. We are not here to build The Church. That is The LORD’s responsibility.

We are here to proclaim The Kingdom of God and bring it to this earth. This will take many forms. There will be many large, influential churches that have a Kingdom view.

The leaders of these Churches will not set out to build large Churches, but to manifest The Kingdom of God in this earth.

Congregations will be very fluid with members moving from one congregation to another. This will not alarm the new breed of leaders.

In fact, they will encourage it, because they are not trying to build their Church, but are building the Kingdom of God in their city.

No one Church has all the truth. The Church in the city will become the emphasis. To survive and flourish in the coming changes The Harvest will bring we must be prepared to change, adapt, and change our traditional mindsets which often become strongholds of the enemy.

We must start to prepare now

Sometime ago, I awoke with an audible voice of The LORD who said, “Ready or not, I AM coming!”

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of The LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but The LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee,” Isaiah 60:1-5.

“A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to The LORD for a generation,” Psalm 22:30.

This generation shall see the fullness of God’s purpose manifest in a way that the world and Church has never seen before.

This generation is spoken of many times in God’s word as a special generation. David the Psalmist penned these words about this generation:

“This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise The LORD,” Psalm 102:18.

This psalm speaks about God’s mercy and kindness to a generation that did not exist in King David’s day:

“When The LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise The LORD. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did The LORD behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; To declare the name of The LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,” Psalm 102:16-21.

The timing for these Scriptures to be fulfilled is clear

At the time when The LORD builds up Zion; this did not happen in the early Church.

We see in Hebrews 12 that the Apostle Paul was admonishing The Church to move on to Zion, a place of an open heaven. (Hebrews 12:18-29)

In Psalm 24 King David said this, “Who shall ascend into the hill of The LORD?” (Zion)

He then goes on to state some qualifications:

“Who shall ascend into the hill of The LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from The LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah,” Psalm 24:3-6.

David was saying that there will be a generation that will ascend the Mount Zion, a generation that has clean hands and a pure heart; a generation that will seek The LORD like no other generation.

This generation shall receive a very special blessing from The LORD.

The prophet Joel prophesied about this generation:

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I willpouroutmyspirituponallflesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of The LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of The LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as The LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom The LORD shall call,” Joel 2:28-32.

Again, we see this occurs when The Church has come to Zion: a time when God will pour out His spirit in an unprecedented way, a time when the sun will be turned into darkness and the moon to blood.

In these end times, God will visit a generation and in a way that eclipses all other visitations.

Matthew 1 begins with this preface:

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham,” Matthew 1:1.

The writer concludes this passage of scripture with this verse:

“So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations,” Matthew 1:17. [14+14+14=42]

However, if you count very carefully the generations listed in Matthew 1, there are only forty-one (41) generations, so where is the forty-second (42) generation?

“A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to The LORD for a generation,” Psalm 22:30.

Jesus died without having any natural children of His own.

However, King David, with supernatural foresight and revelation, wrote about a generation to come that would be counted to The LORD Jesus as a generation — a generation that would be like Him — a generation in His likeness.

See also:

Preparing For The Harvest — Part 2

~ Neville Johnson

The Late Neville Johnson — The Academy of Light.
Neville was in full time ministry for over 40 years and founded two Bible Schools, training ministers and missionaries who now serving The LORD in fifteen nations. He was Director of Living Word Academy of Light in Australia and with great effect he preached the Gospel and taught the Word of God in over thirty nations, ministering in countless ministers’ seminars around the world with a burden for the lost and an apostolic calling to the nations.

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