![]() The wheat fields are almost ready for harvesting. The photo below was made from En-Dor, looking north to Mount Tabor. Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. It is not inappropriate to see the harvesting in the two days Jesus stayed there teaching (John 4:39-43), or in the later events of Acts 8:39-43. If we are to expect a great ingathering, as I think we ought, there. If many souls are to be converted, there must be many to preach to them. The wants of harvest are, first, many labourers. Supposing all this to be true, we shall now speak of HARVEST WANTS. The disciples did not know that He and the woman had already sowed the seed. Now is the day and now is the hour, for the fields are white already to the harvest. When Jesus said the fields were white for harvest He was speaking of a spiritual harvest. The phrase fields are white for harvest is a metaphor used by Jesus in John 4:35 to convey the idea that the time for evangelism and spreading the Gospel. Witnessing is NOT sure proof of Salvation but is an example of it. This helps to date the episode in John 4 to December or January, depending on whether the crop was barley or wheat. F J S Emotion A C T Language O C E A E Social View more Theme: Fields White for Harvest Sub Theme: Conversion by Inference Text: 2006 John 4.31-42 Intro: John four infers the Samaritan woman was Saved. In May the fields would be white unto harvest. Wheat harvesting begins six weeks later in late May or early June. Barley harvest could begin around April 15. What did he mean by four months? Four months separate the sowing and the harvesting. This is one of those statements with a literal meaning as well as a spiritual one. When the disciples returned to Jesus He said,ĭo you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. She then went into the city and began to tell the men that she had met this man who knew her intimate life. Of the 6 billion people in the world, it is estimated that over thirty million people worldwide will die without Christ this year. It’s time to be the laborers that Christ has called us to be. We don’t have much longer to harvest the white fields before us. We don’t have much longer on this earth to win souls for Christ. There is always a sense of urgency to bringing in the harvest. The souls are ready to hear the good news of Christ Jesus. While His disciples were in the city buying food Jesus taught the Samaritan woman. To speak of the fields 'white' unto harvest is to stress the imperative of getting into the fields before it is too late. You probably recall that He met the woman of Samaria when she came to the well to draw water. Such is true in the account of Jesus traveling through Samaria in John 4. Many biblical accounts contain information not easily understood without some knowledge of the history and culture of the time. ![]()
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