[Title: REAPER SEASON] [Intro — Female, Distant] You thought the silence meant nothing was growing. [Low Pulse] Seed in the earth. Night and day. Blade. Ear. Full corn. [Silence] Then— the sickle. [Verse 1 — Male, Dark / Controlled] He sowed the good seed. The field was the world. Wheat beside tares, both growing together. You couldn't tell what the silence was doing. You couldn't see what the field was becoming. Season after season. Mercy after mercy. Warning after warning. Still the field grew. You called His patience weakness. You called His silence absence. But the Husbandman never lost His field. And when the fruit is brought forth— immediately he putteth in the sickle, because THE HARVEST IS COME. [Instrumental Impact] [Hook — Female, Massive] REAPER SEASON! THE HARVEST IS RIPE! LIFT UP YOUR EYES! LOOK ON THE FIELDS! REAPER SEASON! THE TIME IS COME TO REAP! THE SON OF MAN SENDS FORTH HIS ANGELS— THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS! [Male] Who owns the field? [Female] THE SON OF MAN! [Male] Who sends the reapers? [Female] THE SON OF MAN! [Both] REAPER SEASON! [Long Instrumental — Sickle Motif] [Verse 2 — Male, Harder] You prayed, “God, stop the evil.” You cried, “How long will wickedness stand?” You wanted justice until Justice answered. You wanted evil ended until somebody mentioned judgment. But mercy was never permission. Longsuffering was never surrender. Christ died for the ungodly. The door stood open. The Gospel went forth. Come. Come. Come. And still— the field kept ripening. [Female — Distant] “Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe...” [Male] Why? [Female] “for their wickedness is great.” [Silence] [Hook — Female + Choir] REAPER SEASON! THE HARVEST IS RIPE! LIFT UP YOUR EYES! LOOK ON THE FIELDS! REAPER SEASON! THE TIME IS COME TO REAP! THE SON OF MAN SENDS FORTH HIS ANGELS— THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS! [Male] You asked for justice. [Female] LOOK UP. [Male] You asked Him to end the evil. [Female] LOOK UP. [Male] You wondered whether God saw it. [Female] HE SAW. [Male] Whether He heard it. [Female] HE HEARD. [Male] Whether He forgot. [Female] HE DID NOT FORGET. [Massive Instrumental Drop] [Bridge — Female, Barely Audible] Have you pondered the barn yet? [Silence] [Male] The barn? [Female] “Gather the wheat into my barn.” [Male] Where is it? [Female] You're looking at the wrong thing. [Male] Then where should I look? [Female — Rising] LOOK AT THE LORD OF THE HARVEST. [Huge Impact] [Male] Who planted? [Female] THE SON OF MAN. [Male] Who owns the wheat? [Female] THE SON OF MAN. [Male] Who commands the harvest? [Female] THE SON OF MAN. [Male] Who sends the angels? [Female] THE SON OF MAN. [Male] And the reapers? [Female — Shouted] THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS! [Breakdown — Female Alone] You don't believe? The field still ripens. You don't believe? The sickle still waits. You don't believe? The Word still stands. You die in unbelief? [Dead Silence] The Queen of the South shall still rise. [Male — Distant] Say it. [Female] “The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.” [Male] Why? [Female] “She came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon.” [Male] And behold? [Female — Exploding] “A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE.” [Massive Build] [Both] YOUR UNBELIEF DOESN'T STOP THE HARVEST! YOUR UNBELIEF DOESN'T CANCEL THE TESTIMONY! YOUR UNBELIEF DOESN'T COMMAND THE REAPERS! [Male] Who does? [Female] THE SON OF MAN! [Final Hook — Female + Massive Choir] REAPER SEASON! “THRUST IN THY SICKLE, AND REAP!” REAPER SEASON! “FOR THE TIME IS COME FOR THEE TO REAP!” REAPER SEASON! “FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE!” LOOK UP! LOOK UP! LOOK UP! THE FIELD HAS AN OWNER! THE WHEAT HAS A BARN! THE HARVEST HAS AN HOUR! THE ANGELS HAVE A COMMAND! AND THE SON OF MAN IS STILL THE LORD OF THE HARVEST! [Choir] REAPER SEASON! [Male] The sickle doesn't make the harvest ripe. [Silence] [Female] The sickle comes because it is ripe. [Everything Stops] [Male — Whispered] And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; [Female — Whispered] and the earth was reaped. [Long Silence] [Female] Look up. [Both] Jesus is the Lord.
