[Message] Pastor Jung Myeong-seok
[Scriptures] Revelation 14:14-16
14) I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15) Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
16) So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
Hallelujah! I pray that all of you will be filled abundantly with the love of the eternal Holy Father God and the peace of the Holy Son.
Autumn is a good and gratifying season to reap and harvest. That’s why autumn is called the season of harvest, season of gratification, season of fruits, and season of results from sweating.
While you are traveling, walking on a path in the countryside or crossing a nation by train, you might have seen a golden field. When crops ripe and form a golden field, if you do not harvest them in, rats will eat them or they will become rotten and frozen because of snow when the winter comes. That’s why you must harvest them in at the right time.
However, you must harvest in only the crops and not the weeds. You must burn the rest of what remains [after harvesting crops] so that even the seeds of the weeds can be burned away. That’s why people burn their fields in autumn. In the same way, each one of us must pull out our thoughts that are like weeds and pull out the unnecessary grass in our hearts, and by burning them, you must make your spirit and soul good and nice grain.
Everyone, you should offer yourself to God, give glory to God, and harvest yourself by thinking that you are crops to harvest. [God said] that the world is a field, so just as crops should not remain in a field when it is time to harvest, you should not remain in the world.
You should not just keep staying in the field, but you should become God’s person, God’s family, God’s children, and God’s bride. This is what it means to be harvested in.
Won't you be happy when you become God’s people? It is good when crops become the owner’s and are taken in. Likewise, we must confess, “I am God’s. I am Yours, so You have to take me. You have to come and take me.”
When crops are in a field, they are categorized as the same, but when they are used, they are used in different ways. They are used in different ways as rice, rice cake, porridge, and all kinds of unique foods. If you become God’s and are harvested in, you will be used in a variety of ways, different from the past.
After hearing today’s message, I bless you to be harvested by God during the time period of harvesting and live according to God’s Will eternally.
