BIBLE STUDY #239
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE HARVEST AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Monday, September 22, 1997
Puerto Limon, Limon, Costa Rica
Scripture: Matthew 13:36-43
THE MYSTERY OF CHRISTIANITY
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, June 4, 2000
(First Activity)
Cayey, Puerto Rico
And now, for the Last Day, to carry out the great Harvest, Christ says to the workers: “Do not pull up the tares, because by pulling up the tares you might also pull up the wheat.”
From age to age, if every messenger had pulled up the tares in the time it was their turn to live, there would be no bad ones on Earth; but the wheat also would have been affected, pulled up.
Because if the messenger of some age asked as John and James asked: to make fire come down from heaven upon the Samaritans, on a group of Samaritans of a certain city to destroy them… We find that if some messenger… For they said, the messengers said, “Do you want us to pull up the tares?” For the sons of the evil one are the tares. And the messengers, if they had had all the divine power in their age, they would have pulled up the tares from the Earth.
But Christ said, “No. By pulling up the tares they can also pull up the wheat.” For everywhere there are wheat, but there are also tares.
And if any of the messengers, of the apostles, burned the tares in their time, burned some city or some country (as Elijah did, who burned those captains with their army, with their soldiers), because in all nations there are tares and there are wheat too, then they would have destroyed the wheat, the children of God, who would be living in those nations.
(…) Since in Christianity we have seen the wheat, also the tares and also the foolish virgins.
Therefore, in the midst of Christianity God will fulfill the Second Coming of Christ, as He fulfilled in the midst of Judaism the First Coming of Christ.
And just as in the midst of Judaism there was Judas Iscariot, into whom the devil entered (and Judas Iscariot is called “the son of perdition”; he was a son of his father the devil); in the midst of Christianity there will be the Judas of the Last Day, who will be the antichrist, the man of sin, the son of perdition; and he will be one of those who compose the tares.
So we can see that even the mystery of the man of sin will be manifested. It would be manifested where? In the midst of Christianity. For the man of sin, the antichrist, the beast, will be the head of all the tares, of all the sons of the evil one; but Christ is the head of the wheat, of all the sons and daughters of God, Christ is the head of His Church.
So in the midst of Christianity there will be a true Church, made up of the wheat; and there will be a false church, made up of the tares; and there will be a church made up of the foolish virgins.
THE TIME TO MATURE IN THE LIGHT OF THE WORD
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Friday, May 13, 2011
Talcahuano, Chile
“How is it that tares are appearing in the midst of the field, in the midst of the wheat, in the midst of Christianity? (For which we have been seeing many things in the midst of Christianity for these two thousand years). What is it that has happened?”
Christ says in the parable that the lord of the field said, “An enemy, an enemy man, came and sowed tares in the field.”
Then the servants say, “Do you want us to pull up the tares?”
He says, “No; for by pulling up the tares you may also pull up the wheat.”
And pulling up the wheat without having gone through the different stages, what is the use to him?
He has no harvest of wheat (it is one). And the other thing: they pull up this tares, and they may be the family of another person who is a son or daughter of God, who is wheat; they may be family related, they may be the son-in-law or daughter-in-law of a son or daughter of God; and then, by pulling up this person, removing him or her, they may also take away the one who is a daughter or son of God; then they may cause a problem.
“Leave everything still in the field; don’t start doing what you want to do. Leave everything until the time what?…” Let’s see. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 29 and on:
“But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
(…) Then, in the end time, after the seven ages, the Age of the Cornerstone arises; it arises in the upper part of the Church, in the Last Day, the stage for the wheat to be manifested.
It comes out of the seventh age (in other words, it comes out of the lining, out of the shell), it emerges in the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is where the fruit will ripen, the wheat will mature, to be harvested in the Last Day: to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, with the Light of the Son of Man, of Christ, in the fulfillment of the Word promised for the Last Day.
And that promised Word becoming a reality will be the Light that will ripen the wheat in the Last Day; because that will be Christ revealed in the Last Day, manifested in the Last Day, illuminating and ripening the wheat.
That is why when Christ speaks about the end time, He tells us that when we see those signs that He mentioned, taking place, we should know that summer is near. And it is in the summer time that the wheat ripens, it is in the summer time that the wheat is gathered, the harvest is carried out.
(…) Now, if you are going to go to a dinner, well you are not going to dinner in the morning; if you go in the morning it is for breakfast. It is in the evening time that you go to dinner.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has reached the evening time; and the time… In which direction does the sun go down? In the West, in the occident. Therefore, just as the sun rises in the East: there in the territory of the Middle East, in Israel, the First Coming of Christ emerged there; it came out, Christ emerged in His First Coming.
And now Christ is being awaited by the Church at the Last Day, and the stage of the Church of the Last Day corresponds to the West; therefore, it is in the West where the Light will be shining and maturing the wheat. And from there, the Light will spread to other nations, to ripen the wheat in all other nations.
We have to know where the Light that matures the wheat comes from, matures the sons and daughters of God at the Last Day; because we all want to mature and we want to be transformed, and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Let nothing interrupt the Light of the Sun, of Christ, of the Son of Man, at the Last Day.
THE TIME OF THE RESTORATION OF THE KING’S KINGDOM
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
And for the Last Day the promise is that there will be a harvest, a gathering of the wheat: The Reaping, the Harvest. And for the Harvest, Christ says that He will send the reapers. And when He explains who the reapers are, He says they are the Angels. Those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah.
That is why in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31, it says:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect.”
There is no other way the elect of the Hebrew people, 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 from each tribe to be called and gathered. And then, later on, the full blessing for all Israel come.
144,000 Hebrews are the chosen ones who will be the eunuchs of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Millennial Kingdom; therefore, they will work on behalf of the Church. And even during the great tribulation they will be here on Earth working in the work of the evangelization of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and they will be arm in arm with the ministry of the Angel that comes with the Seal of the living God; and therefore, they will be arm in arm with the Two Olive Trees, with the Two Witnesses, with the Two Anointed Ones who stand before the presence of God.
Those ministries of Moses and Elijah will come before the presence of God, first in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ and then in the midst of the Hebrew people; because they have to come in the midst of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
THE HARVESTING ANGELS WHEN DAWN BREAKS
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Monday, July 6, 2009
Lima, Peru
When we are at the time when the new dispensational day is about to dawn, the new dispensational day is about to arise, a new dispensational day is about to be born and a new millennial day is about to be born, the reaping Angels, harvesters, will be present; we will be seeing those ministries being operated by the Holy Spirit for the blessing of the wheat.
These harvesting Angels will be telling the things that are to take place on this planet Earth, they will be making known the blessings of God that are to come upon the believers in Christ, and they will also be making known the divine judgments, the plagues, that are to come upon those who have rejected Christ as Savior. They are going to make known, these harvesting Angels, they are going to make known the divine judgment that is to come upon the kingdom of the gentiles.
Therefore, those who are forewarned will be able to avoid the plagues, they will be able to avoid the divine judgments.
“THE HARVESTING ANGELS WHEN DAWN BREAKS.”
It is as it was in the days of Noah and as it was also in the days of Lot; where the Angels appeared to him, God with His Angels, appeared there to Abraham; they had lunch with Abraham. And then the Angels went to Lot and had dinner there in the house of Lot.
But already at dawn Lot and his family were taken out of Sodom, by the Angels. And then later the sun rose on Lot, the sun of a new day.
Also Abraham looked toward Sodom in the morning and saw a smoke, smoke rising from Sodom as out of a great oven. It is that Sodom and Gomorrah, and nearby cities, were burned by God.
Remember that the Angels told Lot: “We have come to destroy this place”; in other words, it was an intervention of God with His Angels. And there is always intervention from Heaven when divine judgment is brought to Earth.
But before the divine judgment comes, before the judgments of the great tribulation come, Christ will resurrect the dead believers in Him, and He will transform us; and He will take us from here to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
Therefore, we are not terrified, we are not afraid, of the divine judgments that will fall upon the Earth during the great tribulation.
Some health problems are coming now, but those are not the judgments of the great tribulation. Why do we know they are not? Because we are still here and we are not going to be here when those judgments fall upon the Earth.
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