Jn.4:35-37 – Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.
I have been blessed with 51 years of walking with Jesus at this writing. Unknown to me but when I was saved in 1973 I was in the middle of one of these supernatural seasons of harvest that Jesus is referring to here. Thousands and thousands of hippies came to the Lord within a few short years, an entire generation was deeply effected. We are in critical time when an awakening of this magnitude is desperately needed. In this passage Jesus was alluding to a prophesy in the book of Amos that described an amazing supernatural harvest of souls. This harvest began with the ministry of Jesus and has continued in different degrees for the last 2000 years. Something is stirring again, I believe Jesus is on the move. Here is an interesting quote from Barclay about this passage.
“The Jews had their dreams of the golden age, the age to come, the age of God, when the world would be God’s world, when sin and sorrow would be done away with and God would reign supreme. Amos paints his picture of it: ‘The time is surely coming, says the Lord, when the one who ploughs shall overtake the one who reaps, and the treader of grapes the one who sows the seed’ (Amos 9:13). ‘Your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing’ (Leviticus 26:5). It was the dream of that golden age that sowing and reaping, planting and harvesting, would follow hard upon the heels of each other. There would be such fertility that the old days of waiting would be at an end. We can see what Jesus is gently doing here. His words are nothing less than a claim that with him the golden age has dawned; God’s time is here – the time when the word is spoken and the seed is sown and the harvest waits.”
Today’s scripture came to me as a word from the Lord when I was returning to New Orleans in 1977. It was a God moment. We were crossing over the Bonnet Carre Spillway just as the sun was rising from the east. My missionary friend Glen Swarthout was driving and I was reading the Bible. My eyes caught this verse and I knew it was something special. “The fields are white for harvest” Jesus said, “others have labored and you have entered into their labors”. That was it for me, this has been my post ever since then. We have had almost 50 years of ministry here, we recently celebrated the 45 year anniversary of Victory Church. I think the supernatural harvest blessing is about to hit.