HARVEST
In Israel the harvest was associated with festivals, which should have always kept the goodness of God before them.
The barley harvest took place at the festival of firstfruits;
The wheat harvest at the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost; and
That of the vine at the festival of tabernacles (Lev. 23:10, 16, 34).
The harvest was a time of joy (Is. 9:3), and the poor were not to be forgotten (Deut. 24:19-22).
The harvest is used symbolically in the NT of the gathering of souls to God (Mt. 9:37, 38; Jn. 4:35).
It is also used of the judgment of the kingdom at the end of the age, when the angels, as reapers, will first gather up the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them, and then the wheat will be gathered into the granary of God (Matt. 13:39). -41).
There will also be a harvest of judgment on the earth: and the vine of the earth, which should have produced fruit for God, will be thrown into the winepress of God’s wrath (Rev. 14:15-20). In the harvest there is distinction in judgment.