2023-March/April

The Harvest

March 1, 2023

Our Period Today “The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels” (Matthew 13:39). The text above is part of Jesus’ explanation of the parable of the wheat and tares, which was parable seven of the series recorded in Matthew 13. The Greek word rendered “world” in the common version, quoted above, is aionos, which means “age.” It is so rendered in the RVIC and many other clear translations, […]

What Intervenes?

March 1, 2023

Preparing for the Kingdom “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28). We have come a long way through the harvest, the ending period of the Gospel Age, toward the Kingdom. Brethren living early in the harvest forecast that the time of trouble would arrive at the close of 40 years, which from 1874, would be 1914. There the time of trouble predicted in Daniel 12:1 did […]