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WHEN WILL THAT BE?

You’ve gone futuristic on me again.  We’re back to your end of the world question.  To be able to understand what I am saying, one thing has to become established in your thinking.  The earth remains forever.¹⁰³  We must revisit the end that my son talked about, including the siege and fall of Jerusalem, when we put an end to that old system, replacing it with a new and better way.¹⁰⁴ One day shortly before that siege was the last day when we consummated our resurrection or, to use our metaphor, harvested the rest of the grain.  That was “the end of the days” which we had promised centuries before in a vision to our servant, Daniel.  On that day he would be resurrected from the dead into a new body – along with all the others who had “fallen asleep,” whose bodies had previously expired.¹⁰⁵  That was step three.  And being true to our analogy, they would merely come to us and not be paraded among the living.  All the grain was harvested, but only the firstfruits were presented to me publicly.¹⁰⁶

THE RESURRECTION HAPPENED ALREADY AND I MISSED IT?

Yes and no.  You are included in step four, but there was more to step three which I haven’t told you.

103           “One generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever” (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

104           “. . . a better covenant, which was established on better promises” (Hebrews 8:6b).

105           “But you go your way till the end; for you shall rest (fall asleep), and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days” (Daniel 12:13).  “. . . eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body” (Romans 8:23b).  “. . . to redeem those that were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons   . . . Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir (inheritor) of God through Christ” (Galatians 4:5, 7). 

106           “Three times you will keep a feast to me in the year . . . the Feast of Unleavened Bread . . . the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field . . . (in which) the first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God  . . . and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in (all the rest of) the fruit of your labors from the field” (Exodus 23:14, 15a, 16a, 19a, 16b). “ . . . When you come into the land which I give to 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 . . . the sheaf of the wave offering” (Leviticus 23:10b, 11b, 15b).