Jacob now comments briefly on the allegory of the tame olive tree. He says everything represented in this allegory will surely come to pass.
Jacob says how blessed are they who are called to labor in God's great vineyard and how cursed are those who reject the message and stay behind. This probably refers to those who will be left in their own place and not caught up with the Saints when the great destruction of God consumes the wicked. In that crucial moment "the Saints that are upon the earth, who are alive, shall be quickened and caught up to meet him."1
But for those who are not caught up but are cast out or left behind, it will be a terrifying moment. As Jesus said, "Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."2 In ancient times the wicked were destroyed by the waters of a great flood, but the prophets emphasize that the destruction of the wicked just before the Millennium will be by fire.