ELEVENTH HOUR LABOURERS

1. JESUS spoke copiously of the Kingdom of God, using parables to unravel the mysteries. Many of His listeners went home with a story to share with their friends but to His disciples, His parables were portals to timeless Truths, "And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables" [Mark 4:11] The parable in Matthew 20:1-16, succinctly summarized the time line of the New Testament Church beginning with Jews, fulfilled in Gentiles, "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen" [Matthew 20:16] The parable brings us to the "ELEVENTH HOUR", the period preceding the appearance of JESUS and harvest of the earth; the very time we live in, "And about the ELEVENTH HOUR he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? ... no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive" [Matthew 20:6-7] ELEVENTH HOUR LABOURERS are no doubt peculiar hands, prepared for the most important time in human history; they owe no allegiance to any man or religious organization but CHRIST,  "... no man hath hired us. ..."

2.  The vineyard is the Church, the seed is the word of God and the "sower" is JESUS CHRIST, Luke 8: 4-18, and has waited patiently 2,000 years ago to have His harvest, "... Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the EARLY and LATTER RAIN" [James 5:7] The seed as watered by "early rain", was tended by faithful men through the ages; they nursed the "blade" and nurtured the "ear", "For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the BLADE, then the EAR, after that the FULL CORN in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come" [Mark 4:28-29] "Full corn in the ear" is the manifestation of Sons of God, Romans 8:19 and will not come till "latter rain" is released, the ultimate outpouring of the Spirit of Christ, "Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest" [Isaiah 32:15] The return of Israel to the Promised Land in 1948 was the prophetic cue but while she is yet "tender", the harvest of the Gentile Church is at hand, "Now learn a PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that SUMMER is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors" [Matthew 24:32-33]

3. Israel is the Fig Tree in Matthew 24:32-33 which is yet "tender" and "blind"; she won't be ready for harvest until the vintage of the Gentile Church is gathered, "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, ... that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the FULNESS OF THE GENTILES be come in" [Romans 11:25] The Church is bursting at the seams with multitudes, "summer is nigh" but the "corn" is neither "full" nor fitted nicely "in the ear", "But when he saw the multitudes, HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD" [Matthew 9:36] The LORD'S compassion is spread over His Church as over the Church in the wilderness and appointed ELEVENTH HOUR LABOURERS to comfort the weary, strengthen the weak and prepare His vineyard for harvest. He has chosen by His Spirit, men who will not serve their own interests or of men but of CHRIST, "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's" [Philippians 2:21] They are CHRIST'S end-time army, appointed to go before Him to make the crooked places straight and ensure the "corn" is full and fitted nicely in the "ear", "They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks" [Joel 2:7]

4. ELEVENTH HOUR LABOURERS will not build Cathedrals or camp sites, they have a very short time to get their job done before the LORD appears to receive His harvest. They are not the reapers, Angels will do that, Matthew 13:30,39 but are as the seventy disciples JESUS sent ahead, "... whither HE HIMSELF WOULD COME. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: PRAY ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest" [Luke 10:1-2] The mandate is twofold. One, He sent the seventy to announce His coming wherever they went, so do we and more fervently than they because the Church is in deep slumber, "While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him" [Matthew 25:5-6] Two, JESUS told them to PRAY for more labourers and we, knowing there are no ELEVENTH HOUR LABOURERS without the promised and much anticipated outpouring of the Holy Ghost, earnestly pray for the latter rain to ripen the harvest, "Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field" [Zechariah 10:1] I invite you to ELEVENTH HOUR LABOURERS for REVIVAL PRAYERS on ZOOM. 

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