Heartfelt and sincere prayers for blessings, John, and all Doves....

BARLEY HARVEST (added notes)

      John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

Of late, I have been looking into the aspects of the harvest allegories which are so prevalent throughout Christ's messages.
My son brought to my notice that in the above verse, the fields are "white" to harvest.    This is the color of the bride.  It has to be barley, because it was before the Pentecost offering of the two-loaves firstfruits.   The firstfruits were the "first-ripe" of the wheat harvest, and yet this field our Lord pointed out was "white to harvest", meaning fully ripe and ready to harvest.    He Himself was the firstfruits of the barley harvest.   We are told when we see Him, we will be "like Him".   Like the firstfruits of the barley, not wheat.
      Now, Jesus goes on to tell the deciples that this white, mature grain is a "harvest of joy" for the sower (Himself), and the reapers (the deciples).   When did He sow this particular grain?
In the parables of the Kingdom, I think Matt. 13 (?), He said a man sowed seed, which fell into various types of soil.   Now, some of this seed fell into places that were rocky, thorny, etc.   This is typical of BARLEY, as it can grow wild here or there, whereas "WHEAT" is tended in a field, and its corruption can come about only by an "enemy", who sowed tares amongst the wheat.   Going back to the four different types of ground into which the "barley" was sown, we see that it ends up where only 1/4 of the seed sown actually produces fruit (maturity), of various differing magnitudes, some 100, some 60, some 30-fold.   (Someone else maybe knows what these numbers mean????)
      So, the barley harvest is one where the sower and reapers may BOTH rejoice.  That is the day of the rapture, of much joy, for this harvest.
      The next parable of grain is specifically called "wheat" by our Lord, and involves the enemy sowing tares in that field, and He then goes on to say that this particular harvest will not be a joyful harvest,,,,,but a painful one, where tares are taken up from amongst the wheat stalks (which hurt the roots of the wheat), set aside for burning (during the tribulation years), and then the bruised and hurt wheat, injured by this process, done by the ANGELS, not Christ who comes for us to the clouds above,  is "stored in the barn", that is, the mid-trib rapture of this later wheat harvest.....
      The "white" fields are barley - it is a "joyful" harvest, of those who are "like Him".     Right after this, starting with Pentecost,  is the harvesting of the wheat, and the healing of the man with infirmity of 38 years.
      We pray that He comes this year....so many are looking for Him in earnest expectation.
      Your sister in Christ.....Arlene