For several months now (if I remember correctly, just before the start of the year), my heart is being directed to bringing in the final harvest of this age, those that are lost without God, those who do not know about Yeshua and what He has done.  Over the coming months I will be making many posts on the topic of the Harvest as I think it is the primary focus to the Body of the Christ today.  At this point in time, it is obvious that this Age is wrapping up and either the Rapture of the Church or the coming of the Tribulation is at the door.  It is time to work the fields and get the harvest in before time to do so is over.  More about that later.

My view of the Harvest, that is how I look at those sinners out there that are lost without Jesus, changed a bit.  As how I just described the harvest, I have viewed them as lost sinners and they need to find Yeshua and His saving grace.  While that is true to degree, I now have a new view of them.  We know God knew everyone that will ever turn to Him before the world was even created, He knew every thought we would ever have and ever decision we would ever make.  If you can see into the future, you would clearly know people before they even existed.

God knows who will and will not come to Him, He desires that everyone will, but some will not turn to Him and He knows them.  He knows them just like He knew Judas was going to betray Him before Judas was even born but yet still treated Him the same as any of His disciples, even to the washing of His feet.

Here is the new view that came to me yesterday: the Body of the Christ are not just in the Churches, they are all around us living a life of a sin without any knowledge of their Savior and the place in the Kingdom which He has made for them because we have not brought the message to them yet.  I lived 28 years on this planet as a sinner, not realizing that God had already made a place for me, that just down the road a little I would surrender my life to Yeshua and receive my place in His Kingdom.

When we view the Harvest not as lost sinners trying to get saved, but rather as lost members of the Kingdom, the lost segment of the Body of the Christ, we move from trying to change a sinner into a saint, but rather helping them to find their place in the Kingdom.  We  can see that there are those that will not be saved, God knows they will never receive what He offers even though they could if they wanted to, but they will continue to refuse.  Likewise we can view our work as having the tickets for Kingdom in the form of the Gospel for those God knows will turn to Him. 

I do not know if the view matters much to most, to some it might be like making a mountain out of mole hill, but to me it changes my feelings of the harvest from one of combative, trying to drag them into the Kingdom, into to one of helps.  I am no longer trying to battle the person and all the junk they believe, I am now trying to bring light unto their path that they may open their eyes and see what the Lord has done for them and help them to find their place in the Kingdom.

So, in short the view harvest is not that of lost sinners, but lost saints who need help.