Prophecies and modern events confirm that we are living in the end times. The Lord is coming to reap His field. The tares are first gathered into bundles to be burned, but the wheat is collected and taken into the barn—a type of the rapture. The Lord does not change His mind regarding His Word. He has already established a law that He will never violate. The law of the harvest is written in Leviticus:

“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord. Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.” Leviticus 23:10-13

Let us set aside some aspects and focus on the essential. The land we enter represents the promise of the present day. For Israel, it was the promise of Canaan, but for us, it is the promise of the rapture, or the harvest.

The first aspect concerns the portion of the Word appointed for the harvest. A one-year-old lamb without blemish is offered as a burnt offering. Its youth and purity signify the freshness of the revelation, untouched by theological hands. At harvest time, we need a fresh revelation, not an outdated one. God has declared that we must bring a new offering. Not a new Word—for nothing shall be added or taken away—but rather a new revelation of what has already been written.

A grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour accompanies the lamb. As previously mentioned, one ephah equals thirty-five liters. Two-tenths of that means 35 multiplied by 2, which is 70, then divided by 10, resulting in seven. Clearly, the Word of the harvest is hidden in the revelation of the seven seals found in Revelation chapters six to eight. Moreover, these mysteries must be revealed by the seventh and last angel of the Gentile age—not by anyone else. These revealed truths constitute the water of the new birth at harvest time. With the opening of the seven seals, the fullness of the Word is made available, and the Holy Spirit can now fully operate in power because we are filled with all the fullness of God, as it is written in Ephesians 3:17-19:

“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

The knowledge of all the dimensions of the Word is required of the members of the Bride of Christ in this evening time, for the people perish for lack of knowledge. We must know the love of Christ in all its fullness—Perfect Love.

The second aspect is that the seventh angel is a man, as described above. He must be a prophet, for the Bible says in Romans 16:25-26:

“Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith.”

The command of the Eternal God is that the revelation of mysteries hidden since the foundation of the world from Adam’s race be given to a prophet who will preach and write it. This will be made known to all nations—not to Israel, but to the Gentiles—so that they may obey the faith of the rapture. The Lord God does nothing on this earth without first revealing His secrets to His servants the prophets, as the prophet Amos declares.

This last prophet-messenger therefore appears among the nations. The Holy Spirit will reveal to him the mysteries of the seven thunders, which unveil the seven seals. The Holy Spirit must confirm his harvest ministry. The Lord Jesus Christ will use him in the ministry of the Son of Man to reveal Himself in the final age.

This ministry discerns the thoughts and intents of people’s hearts and reveals what is hidden. This prophet-messenger is not the Son of Man Himself, but his body is an instrument in the hand of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man. He is the firstfruit of the Bride’s harvest. What is this harvest then? It is the manifestation of creative power through the Word, as Adam had before the fall, because the seals restore this power.

This prophet-messenger will be used mightily in the creation of things that did not previously exist. He has the power to speak the Word at God’s command, and the Almighty brings into existence what he speaks. This is the measuring standard by which he is recognized. The man who meets these criteria is the prophet-messenger of this age. He is the example of what the Lord will accomplish in the elect, according to the law of the harvest mentioned earlier, for if the firstfruit is holy, so is the whole lump. He has already come, and he has already been accepted by God as the firstfruit because he met the conditions required by the Word of promise. He completed his ministry, and the Lord has taken him off the scene. We will provide more detail about him in another volume dedicated to that subject, with scriptural references from Genesis to Revelation.

He received the mission to preach the message that imparts spiritual measurements to believers so that they may be placed into the Bride-Temple. So what are the measurements of those who make up the Bride-Temple of Christ? They are the foundation of the new birth at the time of the harvest. Every elect must have these measurements; without them, they will never be part of the rapture…

This text is an excerpt from the book “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN” written by Charles OUNDA.

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