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t was late when she left; she had come is a spiritual one. We have no covenant
that day empty. During her conver- obligations to fulfill as Israel did in the past
Isation with a Man she would never regarding the Promised Land. However,
forget, she was challenged, converted and we have similar obligations regarding our
changed, and then returned to her city. faithfulness and responsibility in handling
As she entered the city, she began to tell eternal matters regarding the salvation of
everyone who would listen about Him the lost. Every resource has been made
and what He had told her. The result was available to enable us to sow and reap
that they left the city to see for themselves. in the appointed season. We have been
And as the Lord Jesus looked at them, He given the seed; the Lord Jesus explained
proclaimed to His disciples that the fields that the seed is God’s Word, particularly
were already white to harvest. the word of the kingdom (Mat 13:19). The
Israel is an agricultural nation, so the significant deposit of the Holy Spirit was
disciples of Christ were familiar with the given on the Day of Pentecost; in this era,
concept of harvest. We recognize that not one of His functions is conviction of sin,
all the physical concepts associated with righteousness and judgment. We have the
their land have a spiritual counterpart action of the Lord Jesus, sending gifted
for us. The land belonged to the Lord, men into the harvest field to reach those
and the nation depended on the Lord for who are lost. In light of this, we should
His blessing on the harvest, particularly expect a significant harvest.
in sending rain to water the crops, as the Perhaps it goes almost without saying,
country has minimal means of irrigation. but any prospective harvest depends
The early rain fell when they were sowing on what has been sown. Future harvest
in October and November; the latter rain depends on faithful sowing and attentive
was promised in late March into early care to that which has been planted. Every
April. The Lord specified that His blessing one of us has reaped much more than we
was conditional on their obedience have ever sown; many of us have reaped
because they were God’s covenant people. what others sowed. With unsaved souls
The harvest we are dealing with today before us, there are several important

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