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Date Posted: 09:17:34 02/19/13 Tue
Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Just as the birth and death of Jesus was according to an appointed time we also had a time to be born and there is an appointed time for our death. Job said: "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" (Job 7:1) Just as the hired worker has an appointed time for his work and then payday so it is with every person. "As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: " Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 49:5 "And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant---" Isaiah had a specific purpose in his birth and that is stated in part 2 of verse 5: "to bring Jacob (Israel) again to him".
We each have a purpose in our lives and that purpose is in serving our Lord. Whether we do it or not it is God's will and purpose that we do so. Isaiah followed God's will and did what he was sent to do but the results were mixed at best as we can readily see that Israel did not return to the Lord with all their heart. There were those that did and there were those that didn't.
In our look at Ecclesiastes 3:2 it is interesting to find how that Solomon tied planting and reaping with being born and dying. Our Saviour did also in the parables of the wheat and tares. As with being born and dying there is an appointed time also in planting and harvest. We generally plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. We "pluck up that which is planted".
God does the same. God looks at his creation of man on this earth as a planting and harvest. God planted one time in the distant past when He placed Adam and Eve in the garden and said "be fruitful and multiply". For His labor God wanted a good harvest but it was soon apparent that although the "crop" started wonderfully it was not long until the "tares" showed up. Matthew 13:24-26 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Who can't relate to this when planting a garden. You work and prepare the soil and plant in a bed that looks perfect. You see no grass nor weeds but as the seed you planted sprouts and springs up you start seeing the weeds and the grass that will choke out the good plants. When the plants have enough root you go to work again and start weeding and hoeing. With the wheat however you can hardly tell the difference between the wheat and the tares so that if you went through the field removing tares you would destroy much of the wheat also.
Jesus uses this analogy for the span of time from the Garden to the end of time which He calls the "Harvest". Matthew 13:27-30 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
This is the "plucking up" of that which is planted. It is the harvest at the end of the ages when Jesus will come back to reap the earth. (Rev. 14:15) There is a microcosm of this event going on daily as each person as individuals reaches their alloted time and are taken to their reward. Hopefully in each of us at judgment will be found the good fruit of Jesus Christ in us because each of us will face the harvest of our lives and the "fruit" will be inspected. "To everything there is a season".
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