Who did God require farmers to leave the vineyard gleanings for?
God required farmers to leave the gleanings of the vineyard for the poor. The instruction forbade gleaning every grape and gathering every grape, mandating that some be left. This was a command from God, ensuring the poor could gather food from the leftover produce.
Les explains that verse 10 says, "...and thou shalt not glean thy vineyard," meaning they were not to pick every last grape. Neither were they to gather every grape; they had to leave a gleaning. When he asks, "...thou shalt leave them," for whom? The answer is the poor. That was mandated by God. He illustrates with a 40-acre field of barley: the main harvest was taken all at once, but the corners and gleanings had to be left. He likens the main harvest to the rapture or resurrection of the church-age believer, and then asks who the gleanings and corners represent, pointing to 1 Corinthians 15:23.