I. The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares a) Matthew 13:24-30 b) Matthew 13:36-43 c) The harvest is the end of the age (Matt. 13:39). d) The good seed, which is the wheat, are the sons of the kingdom (Matt. 13:38). e) The Greek word that Jesus used for sons is huios, which is the word that can be used to stress maturity. f) We need a proper view of the end-time harvest. Most people, when they describe the end-time harvest, think of a world-wide revival where millions of people get saved in the context of signs, wonders, and miracles. Certainly, the end-time harvest is that. But it s so much more. The end-time harvest is about the sons of God (the wheat) and the sons of the evil one (the tares) coming to full maturity at the end of the age. The end-time harvest is about righteousness and lawlessness coming to full maturity before the Lord returns. g) We are on the verge of witnessing both the greatest move of God in history and the greatest move of Satan in history. II. The Best of Times and Worst of Times a) The wheat b) The tares Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 1
c) The End-Time Harvest III. The Church s Finest Hour a) The Greatest Outpouring of the Spirit in History Joel 2:28: It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Pentecost was a partial fulfillment of this prophecy. But clearly reading the context, this prophecy will take place before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 2
We are on the threshold of the greatest outpouring of the Spirit in history, a Pentecost that will out- Pentecost Pentecost. Terry Bennett had a direct encounter with the Lord about this. Pentecost 2.0. It s not just about signs, wonders, and miracles, but the life of Jesus Christ filling and possessing a people. Once this move begins, it will not end until Jesus returns. There will likely be different waves of intensity that increase with various seasons of pause. But it will not relent until all that God desires is accomplished. b) Revival, Massive Salvations, Signs, Wonders, and Miracles Obviously, this will lead to massive, widespread revival. Unprecedented numbers of salvations. The release of signs, wonders, and miracles. On December 18, 2017, the Lord gave Neville Johnson the following word: As this new era begins to get underway many Christians will be taken home. They have run their race and kept the faith. They leave behind a legacy and their works do follow them. We often see death as a tragedy, and it is for those who do not know the Lord. However, for those who know the Lord they are just returning home. Billy Graham will make the journey home in this season, leaving behind a mantle that many will pick up. His mantle will be joined with the mantle that TL Osbourne left behind, and this dual mantle will manifest as one evangelistic mantle that has never been seen in the earth before. With the integrity that Billy Graham had and the mighty signs and wonders that TL Osbourne moved in, those who move in this dual mantle will reap an enormous harvest. 1 Bonnie Jones, the widow of the late prophetic voice, Bob Jones, wrote after Billy Graham s death: Today all heaven rejoiced as Billy Graham went home to glory. It was a moment he long awaited to be with his first love Jesus, and to be reunited with his loving wife Ruth. Although I was taken back I remembered the prophecy Bob Jones had regarding Billy Graham. As far back as I can remember Bob would pray for God to extend years to Billy Graham s life. Bob said, The body of Christ is not yet ready. When Billy Graham goes home it will release the next great wave. A wave of power evangelism like the world has never seen and it will bring in the greatest harvest of souls. 2 Malachi 4:2: But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. In the context of the end-time move of God, the Lord will release angels to bring an unprecedented healing movement that will correspond with a great awakening and revival. c) The Glory of God Released This end-time move of the Spirit will not just be marked by the anointing, but also by God s glory. The anointing is wonderful as the Spirit empowers us to do exploits and works for God. But the glory of God is altogether different. Whereas the anointing of God empowers us, the glory of God brings us to our knees, face-down before the Lord. Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 3
The glory of God is coming to the end-time church and it will be fiery and intense. It will be a fiery baptism of jealous love, as the Holy Spirit prepares the bride of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 60:1: Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. The present-day worship movement is being pruned so that we can move from the anointing of God to the glory of God and be ushered into holy-of-holies worship. d) God s Eternal Purpose Fulfilled Jesus Christ is God s ultimate intention and He will be placed back in the center of the church once again, where He belongs. Before the Lord returns, the church will come fully under the headship of Jesus Christ and He will have the preeminence in His house. In this coming, end-time move of the Spirit, the church will be filled with the life of Christ unto fullness and will be conformed fully into the image of the Lamb, as a mature son and an exact representation of Jesus Christ to the world. The coming move of God will be marked by corporate fullness as the body of Christ expresses the life of Christ fully and is joined together with other living stones into localized dwelling places of God in the Spirit. God s inheritance in the saints Christ-like sons for the Father, an equally-yoked bride for the Son, and a temple for the Holy Spirit will be fully prepared. e) The Birth of the Man-Child A major milestone in this unprecedented move of the Spirit will be the birth of the man-child (Rev. 12:5). The body of Christ filled with the life of Christ unto the fullness, overcoming everything that Jesus said in Revelation 2-3, and joined to other like-minded living stones will become the mature man that Paul spoke of in Ephesians 4:13 the measure of the stature that belongs to the fullness of Christ. When this happens, when God has a remnant who will go all the way with Him, the prophecy of Revelation 12:5 will be fulfilled: And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. This event will begin to shift the Church Age to the Kingdom Age, as these overcomers, joined to the other overcomers throughout history, join forces with God s angels to see the dragon and his angels cast down from the second heavens to the earth. f) The First-Fruits Harvest Completed The birth of the man-child will complete the first-fruits harvest as revealed in Revelation 14:1-5. Three-and-a-half years before Jesus returns, God will begin to have what He s longed for before the foundation of the world a family of Christ-like sons and a worthy bride for His Son. This corporate man and equally-yoked bride will worship the Lamb on Mount Zion in heaven. This is the beginning of God s eternal purpose being fulfilled at the end of the age. Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 4
These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They are blameless, holy, and no lie is found in their mouth. These are the ones who matured before the rest and have paved the way for the final and ultimate ingathering. g) The Final and Ultimate Ingathering During the last three-and-a-half years of this age, we will witness the greatest number of overcomers in history. Whereas Revelation 14:1-5 is only a remnant of the redeemed throughout history, the majority of believers alive during the last three-and-a-half years of the age will mature fully and become the overcomers Jesus called for in Revelation 2-3. This is the final and ultimate ingathering as God fulfills His eternal purpose for the Church Age. h) The Bride Made Ready Right before the Lord returns, as darkness reaches unprecedented heights, the bride will finally have made herself ready. Revelation 19:7: Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. i) The Glorious Return of the Lord When the bride has made herself ready, this will trigger the second coming of Jesus Christ, referred to in Scripture as His glorious appearing. Jesus, with His bride, will then fully establish the Kingdom of God in the earth. IV. The Darkest Hour a) From Eden to End-Time Babylon b) The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: In the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil (Gen. 3:5, KJV). The seeds sown into Adam, and subsequently to the rest of humanity, has made each of us inherently proud, selfish, independent, and Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 5
rebellious. Or in the words of Genesis 3:5, we have become our own gods doing what is right in our own eyes. c) Tower of Babel: Many of the world s inhabitants settled in Shinar, grew complacent and apathetic, and then said to one another, Let us make let us build for ourselves let us make for ourselves a name. We know the story. The unified hands of man joined together to build a tower for themselves. The selfish seeds from the tree of knowledge matured into a tower that glorified man. d) Six Satanic Kingdoms in History: The seeds sown from tree of knowledge matured at an even greater level during the six historic, antichrist kingdoms of history. These are: 1) Egypt; 2) Assyria; 3) Babylon; 4) Media- Persia; 5) Greece; and 6) Rome (Rev. 17:9-10). e) The Seventh Kingdom: The ultimate, end-time manifestation of the seeds from the tree of knowledge will mature into a global city known as Babylon the Great (Rev. 17:5). This city will be the headquarter city of a New World Order a one-world religion, a one-world economy, and a one-world government. This kingdom will be in power for a short time. Perhaps 10, 20, 30, or more years. We don t know for sure. This kingdom will be characterized by unity, relative peace, prosperity, tolerance, and utopia. This will be oneworld socialism. The nervous system of this New World Order will be a global brain of artificial intelligence, controlled by the leaders of the one-world government. This global brain will track everything you do, write, and say. It will track everywhere you go, every transaction that you make, the current state of your health, all of your medical records, and what all your preferences are. The New World Order will have a massive profile about everyone on the earth. In addition, AI robots and even transhumanism the merging of computers and humans will be hallmarks of the coming New World Order. f) The Eighth Kingdom: The antichrist s kingdom will be for three-and-half years and will be characterized by totalitarianism, war, chaos, a state-controlled economy, and destruction. Perhaps this will be one-world Shira law. V. The Urgency of the Hour a) Terry Bennett s 21-year prophecy, given to him in 2001, corresponds perfectly with the plan of the global elite. b) In September, 2015, the United Nations released their plan for one-world government called, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. On the surface, this plan sounds wonderful. End poverty. End hunger. Ensure healthy lives. Ensure quality education. The UN plans to accomplish these seventeen goals through sustainable development, social justice, and equal rights to economic resources. However, if you truly understand the push toward globalism that has been escalating since the early 1900s, you realize that this is all just politically-correct spin. In essence, the globalist elite are telling us that they want to establish a one-world government by 2030. This will be accomplished via wealth transfer from the middle class, so that eventually the elite get wealthier, the Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 6
middle class gets poorer, and you basically have a feudalistic system of kings at the top who rule the poor and suppressed. c) In 2017, TruNews anchor Rick Wiles went to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. He went to learn about mobile technology to help build his digital platform. Instead, what he learned there sent shockwaves through his soul. He discovered that the international mobile giants are working together, in corporation with the UN and their 2030 plan for sustainable development, to create a Global Brain by 2030. The Global Brain will be a massive computer database that houses every mobile event around the world. The Global Brain will make use of 5G technology and artificial intelligence to track every action and transaction of all humanity. This will most likely be the beast s nervous system and the backbone of the 7 th and 8 th kingdoms. In fact, you could say that the infrastructure of end-time Babylon is being built at this very moment. The globalist elite are presently pumping in trillions of dollars to completely rebuild the mobile infrastructure of the planet. d) Here s the point: Both the word of the Lord and the plans of the globalist elite have converged. The hour is absolutely urgent. That is why the Lord has been so strong and so in our face, urging us to wake up! e) Angie said, The people in Noah s day didn t understand that rain was coming, but in our day, we don t understand that the brain is coming. 1 http://www.lwf.torqt.net/pdf/ourfinetshour/our_finest_hour_vol3_1.pdf, referenced on 3/8/2018. 2 http://didyoulearntolove.org/2018/02/21/bob-jones-prophecy-regarding-billy-graham, referenced on 3/8/2018. Restoration Life Church www.restorationlife.org Page 7