ORDER OF THE RESURRECTIONS - Harvests as a Rank-and-File Military Typology

‘For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ the First-Fruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him. Then the end will come, when He hands over the Kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all Dominion, Authority, and Power.’ -1 Corinthians 15:22-24

The purpose of this study is to consider the Order of Resurrections and how they are to be a sort of ‘Rank-and-File’ Military Formation of troops. The aim of the study will be to consider when one could or would expect the Resurrection-Rapture event to occur. Why? One is aware that the Bible teaches that there are several Resurrections. The study will point out that the 1st Resurrection is delineated into 3 components or phases. Then the subsequent Resurrections will ensue.

The 1st Resurrection pertains to those having Faith and Belief in the finished work of Jesus Christ, but only after the Cross of Calvary. Then subsequent Resurrections will exclusively deal with those before the Church Age, i.e., Old Testament Believers and then those who rejected Christ Jesus as the only Savior and LORD, etc. One believes that the Old Testament Believers will those of the Revelation Sickle Harvest to be the 7th in the Book to be resurrected for the Millennial Kingdom, as promised to Israel.

Those rejecting Jesus, all-inclusive will await judgment and condemnation to appear at the Great White Throne Judgment. They will not be resurrected until the end of the 1000-year Millennial Kingdom on Earth. This study strongly suggests that the Order of the Resurrections gives the best possible clue as to when the end of the Church Age is to occur and when the next Resurrection event occurs that will include the Rapture. How so? Consider that the 1st Resurrection has 3 phases. It starts with Jesus, then the Church Age Believers and Followers of Jesus. They correspond to both a Feast of Jehovah and a harvest type. The Feast corresponding to the 1st Resurrection are the ones mandated by Jehovah to ‘gather’ in Jerusalem and round the Temple.

This would be like the Military Rank-and-File formations that existed during the Tabernacle of Moses in the Wilderness. And how under Moses and Joshua the 12 Tribes of Israel had Standards and marched in formation as ‘Legions’, etc. In this case, those 3 Feasts would be Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. And their corresponding Harvest Types would thus correlate to the Barley, the Wheat and the Grapes. In short, the 1st is during Passover with the Feast of First-Fruits of the Barley. Note that Jesus rose 1st, singularly. Only thereafter did some of the Righteous Old Testament Dead rise as tokens of the coming Old Testament Dead.

They are to be resurrected at the end of the 7-year Tribulation Period, in one’s calculation. Jesus started the initiations of the 2 Resurrections with the 1st Phase of the 1st Resurrection. It was of Himself exclusively. In keeping with a military theme. One can liken Jesus’ work and operation as a Mission that it was, and a commission. What is a ‘Commission’? It is a formal Written Warrant granting the power to perform various acts or duties. In Jesus’ case, to destroy the Works of Lucifer and save Adam’s fallen race. He and the 12 Apostles and then those that rose with Jesus were as the Elite Special Forces units operating behind Lucifer’s lines on Earth.

Or Jesus and the Apostles were like a ‘Platoon’ of Operatives in preparation for the ‘Corp’ or Body of the Army to come in later, i.e., the Body of Christ. Jesus was as the token and literally the ‘First-Fruit’ of what is yet to come in the 2 subsequent phases of the 1st Resurrection yet to correspond to a Pentecost and a Tabernacles and thus Harvest Types of Wheat and Grapes to follow as the next phases. It will be at the end of Daniel’s 70th Week of Years or the 7-year Sabbatical Cycle that the Old Testaments Saints will be raised to life. This event will coincide with the return of Jesus with His Bride at the Battle of Armageddon, etc.

The 3rd phase of the 1st Resurrection corresponds to Tabernacles or Sukkot and with the Grape Harvest, i.e., the Wrath of the Lamb. It is for sure how Israel will be hard-pressed and squeezed during this time of judgment to fulfill Daniel’s 70 Week. It will be the time to deal with Israel’s willful rebellion and unfaithfulness against their true Messiah, Jesus as a collective nation. It will be during the Millennial Kingdom that the Scriptures will be fulfilled in how it describes a time when one will be able to sit with the Patriarchs of old, etc. This then leaves the Church Age that has mainly been composed of non-Jewish Believers in Jesus. It is a typology also of Boaz and Ruth.

And as a clue, the 2nd phase of the Resurrection is about to occur, the Rapture. The 2nd phase of the 1st Resurrection pertains to the 2nd Feast of Jehovah, that being Pentecost and it corresponds to a Wheat Harvest. But one argues that it is not the ‘Pentecost’ of the Jews or what is called Shavuot in June. No. It is based on one’s July New Wine Acts 2 Pentecost of the New Testament. One is convinced this is the true Pentecost when the Church Age began or was born. And one’s supposing is that perhaps the Resurrection-Rapture event will coincide on its very anniversary.

Wheat Harvest begins in late July and early August. Thus, one can have a measure of confidence that, based on this Order of the Resurrections, that the Rapture Zone will occur each year during this July New Wine First Fruit Pentecost Season. And this cohort will be special. As Jesus was the First-Fruit, and the ‘Head’ of the Barley Harvest, His ‘Body’ is to follow as the First Fruit of the Wine. Is there scripture evidence to this effect? Yes. Consider the following discernment.

‘We know that the whole Creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the First Fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our Adoption as Sons, the Redemption of our Bodies’. -Romans 8:22-23

As one can comprehend, this passage is key as to the timing of the Rapture, when the body will be transfigured from ‘corruption to incorruptibility’. When? At a time and place when it coincides with a First Fruit Festival. And that is? The Feast of the First Fruit of the New Wine, in mid-July when the Wheat Harvest is concluded. Thus, this ‘Corp’ or Body of Christ as in an Army comprises the Church Age Saints since that began in Pentecost of 32 AD. This 2nd Resurrection-Rapture event will comprise the ‘Bride of Christ’ that is promised to co-rule and co-reign with Jesus in all that He is and has.

This is amazing in that not even Israel, the ‘Chosen’ of the flesh came or will come into this privilege and position. It was forfeited. Now as to the timing of when the Rapture event is to occur. What year specifically? That is yet to be determined but if certain year/Jubilee Year counts and Sabbatical Year Cycles come into play, it is sooner than most expect. As with each passing year, the Rapture event comes into better focus and understanding as to its ‘Season’. The Body of Christ can take comfort in the Blessed Hope, coming like a harvest. One day it will become a reality and one’s faith in Jesus will be made real; no more faith as His ‘Bride’ will see Jesus’ face, face to face.

It will be a ‘Job’ moment where he said that though his body and flesh would perish, he would stand and with his own eyes, he would behold the Redeemer. One can be looking forward to this event that is spectacular. The Doctrine of the Rapture was specifically given to the Apostle Paul and to ‘comfort one another with’. The Rapture event will take place in the air; in the clouds it says where there will be that ‘Military’ gathering. It will be a rendezvous with Jesus of His ‘Rank-and-File. One wonders at what level or altitude that will be at? Will it be 10,000 feet up or 40,000 feet up? One thing is for sure and very telling, the Bible teaches that presently, Lucifer is the ‘Prince of the Power of the Air’.

It is where he and his Fallen Angels abide, in the 2nd Heaven. Yet, it is precisely in this place, within the Enemy’s Camp that Jesus decides to come down and meet His Bride, the Body of Christ, etc. When the Saints ‘Go Marching In’, Jesus will then parade and strut in this Luciferian Domain. Jesus will be showing-off His Bride as one proud and grateful Groom would be a wife-to-be to showcase to all family and friends. In this case it will be before Lucifer and his Fallen Angels and demons to only watch in bewilderment. Revelation 12 states that a war will ensue as Lucifer and his Angels will attempt to stop her from going into Heaven. Why?

It is because she, the Bride of Christ will then take-up the vacated Thrones that belonged to the Fallen Angels and Lucifer that were evicted. Later, the Bride will need to face her Accuser, Lucifer, in the Judicial Court of Heaven and be exonerated, not of any sin but of accusation and to be the ‘Star Witness’. Thereafter, Lucifer will be cast out of Heaven for good, thrust down to Earth. In comparison, Lucifer will also be taking a ‘Bride’, but ‘she’ will not be virtuous as the Bride of Christ. This Bride of Lucifer is shown to be in the Bible as the ‘Whore of Babylon’, the other city on 7 hills, etc. It is the Spirit of AntiChrist and the Beast System that has been the Nemesis to the Bride and Body of Christ on Earth, contenting for power and authority. But unlike Jesus, Lucifer will only use her, abuse her and in the end when he is finished with her, will burn her with fire.

So, in comparison, the Bride of Christ is also made up of a select few, those making up the Body of Christ during the Church Age. This ‘Body of Christ’ presently on Earth is made up of both Jew and Gentile. It came as a direct consequence of Israel having rejected Jesus as their promised Messiah. The following is the Order of the 1st Resurrections and its 3 facets or phases.

So, the ‘Time-Out’ for Israel has allowed for the Gospel to be spread to the world in each successive generation of the prophetic 7-Fold Churches of Asia pattern of time This time-frame is the Wheat Field correspondence. If one considers, the world population has only grown exponentially since the Industrial Revolution. It soon reached 1 billion thereafter. Note that during most of the Church Age history, Earth had a relatively constant world population with an average estimated at around less than 250 million people, only and up until the Industrial Revolution.

Meaning that there may not even be more than 1 billion that will eventually make up the Bride at that Pentecost Wheat Harvest Gathering. So, because of what Jesus has done, He has now been given all Authority and Power in Heaven, on Earth and under the Earth. Truly, every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus is LORD one day. The Lordship of Jesus will especially be acknowledged by all those that will rise to judgment at the 2nd Resurrection. And the Bride will be there next to Jesus in some mysterious way, all collectively to witness this amazing event.

As to the mystery of the Rapture event, individually those that make-up the individual ‘Stones’ or Bricks of the ‘Spiritual House or Temple’ that Jesus has been constructing during the Church Age, will have a new body just like Jesus’. This is part of the 3-fold salvation process that has already been secured but to be fully employed. The redemption of the Body, being the 3rd or last component, will complete that for those of the ‘Rank-and-File’ of the 2nd phase of the 1st Resurrection as noted. In terms of the 3-fold Salvation ‘Package’, it was the Spirit that was saved 1st, in the past tense. The Soul is the 2nd that ‘is being saved’, which is in the present tense salvation, etc.

The Body is then to be saved in the future at that Resurrection-Rapture event. Thank the LORD, Jesus will be giving a new body to all those within the Church Age that make up His Body. It will be a body that will be un-contaminated, not subject to corruption, sin, death or decay or the Luciferians attempting to hack into the Human Genome. Like Jesus’ new ‘Glorified Body’, one will not get tired as it will be composed of pure energy, walk through stones and walls and with no pain or needing parts replaced. It will not be subject to sin nor temptation anymore.

So, to reiterate, the Apostle Paul taught that the 3 ‘Gatherings’, of which the Rapture event would be one, was correlated in how he gave the sequence of the Resurrections. There would be 2 Resurrections, but the 1st is segmented into 3 parts or phases. And Paul taught on this order that it is like a Military Rank-and-File. And that they correspond to a Feast Day of Jehovah and a harvest type. The 3 main ones pertain to an association with Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles.

These 3 First Fruit Feasts and harvest types corresponded to when all fighting men of Israel were to gather at the Temple in Jerusalem as they would have during Moses in Rank-and-File around the Tabernacle. Thus, in one’s assessment, the Resurrection-Rapture event will be such a 'Gatherings' that will correspond to one’s Acts 2 July New Wine first Fruits Pentecost. It corresponds to the 2nd phase or formation in the 1st Resurrection. And one contends that it will correspond to the 'Wheat Harvest' as it is special and commemorates the end of the Church Age and Royal Commission.

And that event will be a Rescue Mission from the Wrath of the Lamb that is coming, according to the Book of Revelation. The Bride of Christ is not appointed to wrath but to ‘escape the coming 7-year Tribulation that pertains to what Jacob or National Israel still owes Jehovah for not keeping the Sabbaths of the Promised Land, etc. But as to the Rapture event, that is why it is called, the Blessed Hope, a hope of a gathering. It will come on schedule as to its Rank-and-File phase concerning the 1st Resurrection that is already underway and has been initiated by Jesus Himself.

Thus, Pentecost, the 2nd phase of the 1st Resurrection is next in the Order of the Resurrections. And this event, one is convinced, is to occur at the Pentecost Feast Season during a Wheat Harvest time that coincides with the First Fruits of the New Wine. This supposition, based on Scriptural harvest typologies and as a Military Rank-and-File motif is one’s best educated guess of when the Rapture date is to occur.