'Harvest' in the Bible

Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few;

therefore entreat the Owner of the Harvest to send out reapers into His fields."

Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.'"

The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.

But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."

And He addressed them thus: "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few: therefore entreat the Owner of the harvest to send out more reapers into His fields. And now go.

"And he said to himself, "'This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store up all my harvest and my wealth;

Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.

At length, on the day of the Harvest Festival, they had all met in one place;

For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.

If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?

I shall remain in Ephesus, however, until the time of the Harvest Festival,

And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it, and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.

The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;

And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness.

And another, an angel, came out of the sanctuary, calling in a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, and saying, "Use your sickle and reap the harvest, for the hour for reaping it has come: the harvest of the earth is over-ripe."

Then He who sat on the cloud flung His sickle on the earth, and the earth had its harvest reaped.