Amos 9:13 promises a coming Kingdom age of such overwhelming agricultural abundance that planting overtakes harvesting without interruption.
The verse pictures harvest and planting running together, with the grape-treader following the sower. Les Feldick's teaching places this future blessing in the Millennial Kingdom, where he says there will be no curse, no sickness, no death, and Christ will rule with total control.
Amos 9:13 — The exact verse in question; it describes the plowman overtaking the reaper and abundant wine production.
Amos 9:13 (KJV): "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt." The verse describes an unbroken agricultural cycle: before one harvest ends, the next planting begins. The same verse promises mountains dropping sweet wine and hills melting, all imagery of overflowing fertility. The language is agricultural and points to a time when food production is continuous and plentiful.
In the available transcript evidence, Les does not quote Amos 9:13 directly, but he does teach the setting in which such a promise belongs. In Clip 0, Les says the coming Kingdom will have no death, no sickness, no curse, no Satan, and Christ will be in total control with a perfect rule and government. Because of that, he says there will be a tremendous population explosion. Les also repeatedly uses harvest imagery from Israel's agricultural calendar—firstfruits, the main harvest, and the gleanings—as a pattern for God's dealings with mankind, including the order of the resurrections. This harvest framework shows how seriously he treats Old Testament agricultural language as carrying real prophetic meaning.
In normal farming, a farmer reaps the harvest and then waits for the field to be cleared before plowing for the next crop. Amos pictures a time when the plowman overtakes the reaper—meaning the new season's plowing begins before the reaper has finished the old harvest. The grape-treader likewise catches up with the sower, so the vintage is being processed while the next seed is still being planted. The point is continuous, uninterrupted productivity.
Les teaches that the coming Kingdom is the time when the curse is removed. In Clip 0 he says: "there will be no death, no sickness, no curse, no Satan, and Christ is going to be in total control, a perfectly perfect rule and government." He also anticipates a tremendous population explosion in that setting. This is the Kingdom context in which a verse such as Amos 9:13 would make sense.
Les often uses the Old Testament harvest to explain God's order. He teaches that Israel's harvest had three parts: firstfruits, the main harvest, and the gleanings left for the poor. He applies this to resurrection—the firstfruits group, then the main harvest which he calls the resurrection/rapture of the church-age believer. This shows that for Les, agricultural imagery in Scripture is literal history that also carries prophetic meaning.
Kingdom without the curse
Les says the coming Kingdom will be free of death, sickness, curse, and Satan, with Christ in perfect control—the setting in which Amos's abundant harvest promise belongs.
Firstfruits sheaf
Les explains how the Jew plucked the first ripened grain stems to present a wave sheaf, using harvest as a prophetic picture.
Three harvest stages
Les compares the harvest of mankind to three stages—firstfruits, main harvest, and gleanings—which is the framework he uses for Bible harvest passages.
Ripening grain
Les describes the barley field just before harvest, with gold stems appearing in the green field as the firstfruits are gathered.
Main harvest equals church resurrection
Les applies the main harvest to the resurrection/rapture of the church-age believer.
Corners and gleanings law
Les teaches the Old Testament law of leaving corners and gleanings for the poor, part of his harvest analogy.
Spiritual meaning of gleanings
Les explains that after firstfruits are removed, the main field is harvested and corners/gleanings are left, representing the rest of God's harvest.
Why the Church Will Not Go Through the Tribulation
For the time is come for thee to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." Now the Greek actually is a little stronger word. It's more than ripe. It's just almost past harvest time. "...And so he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped." In other words, the sovereign God now is coming into the picture. Verse 17, "...
Amos 9:13: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
This is the verse under consideration; it promises the plowman overtaking the reaper and mountains dripping sweet wine.
It means the time between harvesting and the next planting will disappear. The crop will be so productive that the farmer plowing for the next season catches up with the reaper still finishing the current harvest, and the grape-treader catches up with the sower. It pictures continuous, uninterrupted abundance.
In the available transcripts, Les says the coming Kingdom will have no death, no sickness, no curse, no Satan, and Christ will rule with total control. Amos 9:13 is the kind of Old Testament promise that belongs in that curse-free Kingdom age.
No. The transcript evidence present does not quote or comment on Amos 9:13 directly. It does provide Les's teaching on the curse-free Kingdom and on Old Testament harvest imagery, which is the broader prophetic context.
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