RESURRECTION
HARVEST TYPES
IS THE CHURCH AGE
BARLEY OR WHEAT?
The Grain type
determining the Resurrection-Rapture timing
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org
The purpose of this study is to consider what and when is the
Order of the Resurrections taught in the Bible. And
furthermore, if the Church Age dispensation of Believers in
Jesus is likened to the Barley First-Fruits or that of the
Wheat. And lastly, does the type of grain prophetically help
determine or is a clue as to the timing of the Resurrection
and the Rapture of the Bride of Christ that will close-out the
Church Age?
One has made the case before as to one’s supposition of their
being an association and why the Bride of Christ is a type
linked to both the Bread and the Wine, or Wheat and Wine. One
will use Scripture to show why one has interpreted it this
way. It is only based on one’s understanding and logic. But by
presenting this prophetic point of view, it is just that. One
is not trying to convince others aside from attempting to show
why one is convinced of it.
Believers and Followers of Jesus have the Holy Spirit as the
Teacher and Arbitrator of what is Truth and will always lead
the Body of Christ into truth, the Bible teaches. So, with
that said, one will reiterate my findings and research as to
why one is convinced, until further notice, that the Bride of
Christ, as in the Church Age, is indeed tied to the typology
of Wheat and Wine, not Barley. It is predicated on the ‘Order
of the Resurrections’. Here is one’s logic based on the
following Scripture passages.
1) PASSOVER WHEAT AND WINE: 1 Corinthians 11:25-26
‘Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink
it. For every time you eat this Bread [Wheat] and drink this
Cup [Wine], you are announcing the LORD'S death until he comes
again’ [The Rapture].
Jesus instituted the motifs and the protocols of what to
do and contemplate throughout the Church Age. It is a rehearsal,
as often as one would or could of what it took to redeem Adam’s
fallen race. And it is Bread, as in Wheat and Wine that defines
that. And that those tokens, in one’s estimation, are what will
coincide as to the timing of when and where Jesus will fulfill
His promise to return as He stated at the Last Supper.
It is a foreshadowing since Passover of how those 2 elements
became the LORD’s protocols and motifs for the entire Church
Age. Those alone would or could settle the matter. At Passover,
it is primarily Wheat that is used to make Unleavened Bread. It
is a possible time marker of when Jesus is to return then, i.e.
the Resurrection-Rapture.
2) PASSOVER NEW WINE: Mark 14:22-25
‘Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the Fruit of
the Vine until that day when I drink it New [Wine] in the
Kingdom of GOD.
From this passage, one can deduce that the timing of when
the Passover Meal and Betrothal Ceremony will be completed is
tied to the New Wine timing. And that timing is when, again, the
‘Wheat meets the Wine’, in one’s interpretation. It then
suggests, agriculturally, a midsummer July Wheat Harvest and the
beginning of the New Wine First-Fruits Offering. By this timing,
the Barley Harvest would have concluded and the winnowing of it
was progress, i.e., Boaz at the Threshing Floor. One is assuming
the ancient Barley cycles and not the ones that now incorporate
a Winter planting.
3) END OF THE AGE: Matthew 28:19-20
‘Therefore, go and make Disciples of all Nations,
baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that I have
commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, even to the
end of the Age’.
What Age will end? Jesus is referring to the Church Age and how
Jesus commissioned her to the field, ‘white’ as Wheat, ready for
harvest, etc. The Church Age, as the Bride of Christ, can also
be seen astronomically, given liberty here to directly associate
it with the only female motif of the Mazzaroth, Virgo or Beulah.
Note that it is Virgo, the Constellation directly linked to the
Revelation 12 Sign that depicts the Man-Child, and a Rapture
sequence. Note that the last day of Summer is September 22, the
Equinox.
But what is most important and key to consider is how on one
hand, the left, she is holding a basket of Wheat, not Barley.
And Note that the Sign is an end of the Wheat Harvest when she
appears in the northern hemisphere, etc. This ‘basket’ area is
where there is a cluster of millions of galaxies that look like
‘Wheat’. One’s point is that the Bride association to being the
Church Age is tied to a Wheat Harvest timing and motif.
4) WOMAN MILLING GRAIN: Matthew 24:40-42
‘Two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the
other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will
be taken and the other left. Therefore, keep watch, because
you do not know the day on which your LORD will come’.
In the above passage, the Rapture timing is alluded to as
one interprets it. And note that the Rapture is really the
‘Resurrection-Rapture’. The Rapture event is precisely the
Resurrection of the Body that is to physically join the Head,
Jesus that had gone beforehand as the Barley First Fruit
Resurrection, etc.
And it is those that are alive and remain that are then
‘caught-up’ with the Resurrected for the ‘Rapture Ride’. It is
when the Wheat Harvest has been collected and is now ground-up
or milled to make flour. The New Living Translation of the above
passage has ‘grinding flour’. Note that it is Wheat that needs
to be grounded, not Barley.
Agriculturally, Barley is frequently eaten whole (hulled)
or pearled, unlike Wheat, which typically needs to be milled.
While Barley can be winnowed and ground into flour for baking,
it is more commonly used in its whole-grain form for soups,
salads, and porridge. This speaks to how Jesus, as the
Barley First-Fruit, was ‘whole’, intact and not needing any
‘processing’, as opposed to the Church Age Believers that do.
And for that, the Tribulum, as in ‘Trials and Tribulations’ is
used. The whole ‘Walk of Faith’ is about a refinement process, a
‘milling’ if you will. This is why the Church Age is as to
Wheat.
5) THE MARRIAGE OF RUTH TO BOAZ: Ruth 3:1-5
‘Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a
relative of ours. Tonight, he will be winnowing Barley on
the Threshing Floor. Wash, put on perfume, and get
dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the
Threshing Floor, but do not let him know you are there until
he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, note
the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and
lie down. He will tell you what to do’.
As one who researches typologies in the Bible, it is all
about specific days and timing as that is how one sees Jehovah
operate. Consider the very night that Ruth ‘proposed’ to Boaz on
the Threshing Floor. The following is conjecture and
interpretation but based on historical and agricultural
practices. As mentioned, the Wheat is subjected to a Tribulum
that is used to separate the Wheat kernels.
The point is that the Wheat Harvest was only recently
concluded. It was the Barley that was already harvested and in
the process of being winnowed by Boaz. Yet the synchronization
of the timing shows that the Barely, already harvested, was
being processed, but coincided with the New Wine Timing and the
end of the Wheat Harvest. This meant that the First Fruits of
the New Wine was observed by Boaz because at that time and
place, Boaz is assumed to have imbibed himself with the New
Wine, perhaps.
It would have been in commemoration of the gathering and
completion of the Wheat Harvest. One is thus assuming that by
the time Ruth appeared that night, at Boaz’s feet, it was on a
July 23 date, as one calculates it. Nonetheless, consider the
Barley typology. At this time and place, the winnowing points to
how the throwing the Barley up to the wind to have their bodies
separated in the air. It is exactly what will be transpiring
during the Resurrection-Rapture ‘winnowing’ done by the Holy
Spirit, when that time comes.
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Order of the Resurrections
Now, as to the Order of the Resurrections? So, in one’s
understanding, it was only Jesus that was resurrected or
‘harvested’ as the Barley First Fruit. As the First-Fruits are
the token of the harvest to follow, but of the same kind, it was
then that the Old Testament ‘Saints’ were what followed, but
only after Jesus’ resurrection.
Thus, one’s point is that the subsequent Resurrection-Rapture
that is to close the Church Age is what will join the Body, the
Bride of Christ with its Head, physically in a sense. It is not
that the Church Age dispensation of the ‘Body’ has been
‘headless’. But that it has been attached and connected to Jesus
through the Holy Spirit.
1) RESURRECTION OF OLD TESTAMENT BELIEVERS: Matthew 27:51-53
‘And behold, the veil of the Temple was rent in twain from
the top to the bottom; and the Earth did quake, and the rocks
rent. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the
Saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves AFTER HIS
RESURRECTION, and went into the Holy City, and appeared unto
many’.
As noted, the Old Testament Believers did not rise with
Jesus, but only thereafter. One argues that as the Head of what
the ‘Body’ of the Church was to become, His was singular, unique
and specifically pertained to the Barley First-Fruits.
One argues, from Scripture, that Jesus and Jesus alone fulfilled
the First Fruits of the Barley on that Saturday or Sabbath
Resurrection (3pm) in the Garden Tomb, etc. And that He passed
right through the stone that covered the entrance to the tomb.
He transcended their Caesar Seal and all the Roman Sentinels
positioned there to guard any body-snatching being contemplating
by the Apostles.
2) EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR ORDER: 1 Corinthians
15:22-24
‘For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made
alive. BUT EACH IN HIS OWN TURN: Christ the First-Fruits [of
the Barley]; then at His coming, those who belong to Him [The
Wheat Rapture]. Then the end will come, when He hands over the
Kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all Dominion,
Authority, and Power’.
This is the crux of the study, in that one argues that
there is a ‘sequential order’ to the Resurrections as taught in
the Bible. It is that Jesus had to be the 1st to rise. And
afterwards the next subsequent Resurrection will be that of His
Body. When? At the time of the Rapture. This means that it
cannot be that of the same type. After Barley, the next type of
grain that is harvested is the Wheat. The topic of the Order of
the Resurrections is a deep consideration as there is then the
subsequent one even after the Rapture.
There is yet the Resurrection of the Old Testament Saints. One
is also convinced that this is pertaining to the Sickle Harvest
of the end of the Book or Revelation. Then there is the
Resurrection that leads to what is called the 2nd Death. It is
what was disclosed to the Prophet Daniel of how in the end,
there would be a Resurrection of those that will ‘shine like the
Stars’ in Heaven or those that will rise to everlasting
condemnation and destruction.
Thus, that agricultural sequence or ‘Order’ is what is
reflected also in the spiritual and metaphysical rising of
Christ’s Body, i.e., the Bride of Christ at Jesus’ return. When?
When the Wheat meets the Wine. And this ‘return’ is interpreted
to refer directly to the Rapture event that is the Resurrection
of the Church Age Believers and Followers of Jesus, etc.
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