Shadow of Things to Come Very Soon

By William Kelly

This book was written to teach Christians to understand the foundations of the book of Revelation to see how it is put together by using the Old Testament as a shadow of the new. In the Old Testament, we are taught about the harvest of grains, barley, wheat, and grapes; and in the new, we are taught about the harvest of souls. The souls are the Christians, Israel, and Gentiles. Each harvest has three parts-firstfruits, main harvest, and gleanings. This is the same for grains and souls.Christ is the second Adam. This means we can look at Adam as a shadow of Christ. Christians are part of the body of Christ, as God took a rib from Adam next to his heart. God will take the firstfruits from the body of Christ, the church, in the first rapture. Then he will take the main harvest, the body of Christ, in the second rapture.Bible Reference Joel 2:16.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098048556

William Kelly

Born in Ireland 1950, I left home in 1966 to go to sea for fourteen years and then transferred to the oil and gas industry. The past 32 years has led me to onshore and offshore energy installations all over the world, UK waters, Shetland, Middle East and the South China seas. I am happily married with two children, now grown up and both working in the oil and gas industry. My interests run to Rugby as an amateur player over 27 years, flying, sailing and writing. For the past 11 years my wife and I have been living on our sailing yacht 'Grey Glider' in the Mediterranean travelling through Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey where the yacht is now based. At one point I owned a six seat twin engine plane and qualified as a multi-engine pilot and qualified to fly on instruments. I took up writing after being less than impressed and frankly disappointed with books bought in airports. I like to include some humour in my writing and prefer adventure thriller story lines. My work and my travels have provided wide and varied access to some remarkable and interesting places and situations. This has been one of the main sources for the ideas in my writing.Known to most as Ned Kelly after the famous Australian bush ranger.

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Shadow of Things to Come Very Soon

William Kelly

Copyright © 2020 by William Kelly

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Table of Contents

The Seven Churches

Where Will Jesus Get His Bride?

The Harvest

Firstfruits of the Barley Harvest

The Main Harvest of Barley

The FirstFruits of Wheat

The Two Witnesses

The Mighty Angel in Revelation 10

The Firstfruits of the Grape Harvest

Coming Wars Before First Rapture

The Seven Seals

The Seven Trumpets

The Grape Harvest

Preface

The soon coming of Christ, the first rapture, the firstfruits of the barley harvest, and the bride of Christ. God takes the bride out of the body of Christ just like he took Eve out of the body of Adam, shadow of things to come. Old Testament, a shadow of New Testament. New Testament reveals the old. God put Adam to sleep and took a rib next to his heart for a bride; likewise the church, the body of Christ, is asleep. God will take out the overcomers, those closest to his heart, firstfruits, the first rapture (Rev. 4:1). Followed by main harvest, tribulation saints in second rapture by angels (Rev. 7:9), followed by the resurrection of the gleanings (Rev. 11:12; 1 Cor. 15:51).

Daniel said there will be 490 years of judgment on Israel with 483 years ending at the cross of Christ with 7 years left to be completed at the end of the age. Daniel saw only the judgment of Israel, not the judgment of the church. John saw both the judgment of church, Israel, and Gentiles. Barley harvest type of church and wheat harvest type of Israel and grapes harvest type of Gentiles. The harvests in Old Testament are shadows of the harvests in Revelation, barley, wheat, and grapes. Barley during seals, wheat during trumpets, and grapes during vials with three parts to each harvest, firstfruits, main harvest, and gleanings.

Jacob served seven years for one wife and seven years for the second shadow of things to come. Church, body of Christ, harvested during seals, and the first seven years. Israel, Father God’s wife, harvested during the three and one-half years of trumpets and three and one-half years of vials; second, seven, a total of fourteen years. All of the seals must be opened before Daniel’s tribulation is opened, and the book contains the last seven years of judgment on Israel, starting with the first trumpet.

Israel, Father God’s wife, the wheat harvest begins before the trumpets in Revelation 7:1–8, the sealing of the 144,000 with 12,000 of each of