I have to say there is some question about the exact nature of the resurrection of the 144,000 and the tribulation Saints. We don't know if some of them will still be alive when they these resurrections occur, or even if these groups are raised all at once though in their respective categories and order. If some are indeed alive who is to say that these groups are not therefore snatched up in a manner similar to the Church? I will have to do some review of relevant Scriptures later on this evening.
Yeah, let me just say, I don't think the word "harvest" necessarily [
always] implies [
only] the idea of "resurrection" [
from the dead]. Does that make sense?
For example, in the
Matthew 13:24,30,39,40,49-50 parable, about "the end [singular] of the age [singular]"
yet future,...
see esp vv.30,39,41 [where the words
"harvest" and
"gather" are used of what
the "reapers / angels" will do], I believe the CONTEXT is primarily speaking of "
still-living persons" (
as opposed to "
resurrected" persons) at the time-slot being spoken of.
My view is that "the 144,000" aren't going to be "killed" or "die"... and that despite what it may sound like in Rev14:3-4, I do not believe the passage is saying they will be anywhere else except
on the earth (as "
still-living" persons, at the time being referred to in that passage).
So like in the Matthew 13 passage, it is a "harvest" not because ppl are necessarily being "resurrected," but that the "REAPERS" (in the case of Matt13) are (at THAT time) "gather[ing]
OUT all things that offend" [like, "gather ye FIRST
the TARES"]... but "the righteous" (in that context) aren't being lifted AWAY FROM the earth, they are not being "relocated [/removed] entirely" like "OFF from the earth" in this context... but into the
earthly MK age, so to speak [which is what the "My barn" speaks to, as I see it] (so this is neither a "resurrection," NOR a "rapture/departure"... but it
IS a "harvest" nonetheless). Make sense??
So, I'm just pointing out the TWO distinct "firstfruit" references in Lev23... and the fact that there is more than just ONE "harvest" (which speaks more to TIMING and MANNER OF harvest [whether via "
tossing it up into the air," or via "
tribulum" and "threshing", than it does to the other issues ['dead' or 'alive'], if that makes sense).