There are three harvests in the book of revelation chapter 14. Two wheat harvests and one grape harvest. I hear many believers urging Christians in light of what’s going on around us to be ready for the Lord. What does that mean to be ready. If the Lord comes tomorrow and I’m not ready today how can I be more ready? And what if I’m not ready what does that mean? This view is not popular that I share. But we need to understand the basic principle that to be ready means to be ripe. God is the farmer and he’s going to reap his harvest. We are wheat and we need to be ripe. For wheat that means we need to be dry, dry from this earth that we live on. Wet wheat can not be harvested. Oh Saints are you dry meaning are we still watered by the world, supplied by the world or are we lovers of Jesus like the first fruits. The first fruits are ripening early and are gathered into the farmers house For his enjoyment.. Then those who remain on the earth will go through a trying time. A literal furnace on the earth that will dry us out. The last trumpet will sound and the Lord will gather saints up because they are dried out from this earthly life. The Lord will make us ready. Let’s not debate the time of the rapture let’s just consider that he is going to gather his harvest, a wheat harvest, and we need to be ready. Dried out from this world. And then he’s going to gather the grape harvest. These are the inhabitants on the earth that have tormented believers both Jew and Christian. They are big fat juicy grapes because they have lived by the world supply. They will be cast into the wine press of God‘s wrath and pressed. This refers to the battle of Armageddon which we will see later. It is placed here in this passage so that we can see the contrast between the wheat and the grape harvest. Let us be wheat , Let us be ready by being ripe, dried out early for the Lords enjoyment.
