Genesis 49:1 – “Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.”  NASU

As we further examine this we find a two-fold situation being revealed.  We realize that being ‘alive’ we have a greater capacity to perform, experience, and enjoy than an inanimate stone.  Also, being ‘alive’ we have the ability to choose, resist, reject, and even rebel against what the Spirit of God and God’s master builders are attempting.

I am totally convinced that the Bible predicts a ‘Great Harvest’ in the Last Days and I believe there could well be more people saved between now and the end of the age than have been up until the present time.  I believe that coming to the world is revival, renewal, and restoration.  So, if God has declared and promised a HARVEST there will be a harvest, BUT that harvest must not only be ‘gathered’ it must be ‘garnered’ into the house. The House is not NATURAL but SPIRITUAL and I believe it can be seen as the Church of Jesus Christ!

In the natural, a house is where someone lives and the Church (people) is God’s House.  Christianity is more than heaven or hell its larger purpose is to show forth God’s Glory for God wants COMMUNION with man His creation.

Psalms 84:4, 10-11 – “How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah. 10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside  I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” NASU

Psalms 92:13-14 – “Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.  14 They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing,”  NKJV

Let me emphasize a few things here:

• If we are PLANTED we can be developed and established so that we are fruitful throughout the entirety of our lives.
• If we are PLANTED we can be fitly framed together, able to supply that which we were designed to supply. (Ephesians 2:21-22; 4:16)
• If we are PLANTED we can avoid becoming a piece of twisted lumber that has no use or function in the building.
• If we are PLANTED we have authority because we are under authority and in divine order.

           Therefore, divine order is more than a religious cliché or hierarchy it is an indispensable element in the purposes of God for these LAST DAYS.  Divine Order is borne out of relationship rather than some prescribed set of rules.  Satan cannot compete with divine order because through the FINISHED WORK of Christ he is both ‘defeated’ and ‘disarmed’ and in the presence of one who is in divine order he is impotent.

There is a Harvest coming!  We’ve discussed the ingathering but there is another aspect often overlooked or ignored.  We are going to see a shift from just preaching “come and be saved” to “come bow your knee for Jesus is King.”  The LAST DAYS MESSAGE will trumpet COMMITMENT.  Matthew 6:33 will be a way of life not a spiritual ideal.  We are going to see communities of covenant rather than religious legalism.  There is going to be a pruning, purging, purifying and shaking in the Church of today and all that can be shaken will be shaken separating the wheat from the chaff.  In this Harvest reaping will take place.  Reaping of what has been sown – – Good and Evil.

That is not to be feared but to be cheered for God is going to expose that which needs to be exposed, promote that which needs to be promoted, tear down that which needs to be torn down, and build up that which needs to be built up.  Times are changing and you will see the evidence soon.

God bless you as you turn your focus upon the Lord and allow the Holy Spirit to prepare you for THE LAST DAYS!   God be with you in your journey!