Living in an urban city, a developed country, a technology culture, it is hard to understand the parables of Jesus for most of them are agricultural in nature. I love how Jesus spoke to the audience in front of Him, so they could understand what He was saying. If we don’t understand agriculture life, we do not understand parables about sheep, wheat, weeds, soil, seed, or other parables Jesus shared with these themes. Thank God for technology, there is nothing we cannot learn about without a little studying.

We have been taught that revival, salvation of souls, are indicators we are living in harvest season. We hear of college campuses having moves of God; baptisms happening; more services being added; or even tent meetings with signs that say revival and we call it harvest season. Which it could be an indicator.

However, Jesus says the harvest is also identifiable when you see seperation taking place. We don’t like the idea of people being separated into two categories, but Jesus was not afraid saying it. He separated sheep and goats, wheat and tares, and even weeds and wheat. Seperation is a sign of harvest season and I believe we are in harvest time right now.

Matthew 13:27-30 says, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’

Seeds are hidden until they manifest above ground. Once they manifest we can identify whether they are wheat or weed seeds. Both have been growing together all around us and in us. But it is harvest time, for the manifestation of these is here and the seperation is upon us. God is bundling and sending through the fire for refinement those who have been tending the weeds called the flesh and He is gathering those who have been tending the wheat called the spirit.

Both flesh people who operate in the natural and spirit people who walk by faith have been growing side by side, but a seperation is upon us. We see it in the news when we hear of people stepping down from major positions; we see it in our neighborhoods as people are hearing revelation knowledge in homes. The manifestation of seperation is the identification that we are in a harvest season. Gathering one and refining of another is happening right now, the seperation is because it is harvest time.