Abib Report 2012

Dear Brethren,

We hope things are well with all of you and that you are being encouraged and blessed to persevere and overcome these difficult days for mankind that we find ourselves in.

My family and I send you our greetings.

Our plans are set for this years abib inspections. We will be conducting them the week of March 18th. Those who will be participating this year are Greg Ireland, Alan McDougall, Brian and Ken Hoeck, Rick Andrews, Angie (Andrews) Boettner (thanks Zach), Linda and myself.

We will be sending out the daily reports and a summation as has been our pattern over the past ten years. They can be accessed at abibofgod.com or steve.bruns.com/brianconvery.html. I would also think Brian and Ken Hoeck will have them available on their site as well. For those of you who want them sent directly to you via email please let me know. I don't take it for granted each year that the list will be the same for them.

For those of you who keep local observation or the last crescent we will try to have enough information for you by Tuesday night for you to make a determination as to the barleys maturity.

Israel has gotten a well needed real winter this year as to precipitation. It has been abundant in the key areas we inspect year after year. In many areas it is still raining/snowing at a good pace. With all this precipitation we can expect an abundant crop of germinating self-seeded or wild barley The last week of February and the first week of March will give us a good indication as to what its maturity will be during our inspections. However we do wait on God/Elohim to clearly show us the week before the end of the 12th lunar cycle/month.

One of the possibilities we may encounter this year due to the widespread precipitation is that the desert and rock strewn soil areas may germinate a crop. As experience has shown us in the past very little of this barley will reach maturity if the weather turns dry and hot. The reason is simple for with very poor soil little moisture is retained in the soil and thus the plant is stressed beyond its ability to cope with and then dies prematurely before it reaches a state of aviv which is the ability for it to reproduce itself. We have discussed this agricultural fact often in the past years summations.

Just think we are only 7 weeks away from the inspections for this upcoming Biblical year. As always we ask for your prayers and not your money. What we undertake is just a simple service for the body of Christ and nothing else.

If there are any of you who have a special need as to the inspections please let us know and we will do all we can to accommodate it.

Keep safe and our peace we give to you,

Brian and Linda

2011 Abib Summation Report - Click to View

Daily Inspection Reports

Thursday March 3, 2011

Third Report:

Hi Folks,

Today we came to the conclusion of our inspections. There is nothing new to report from the Jerusalem area other than the figs are not budding in any area's we inspected. The barley was very young and holding the same pattern as seen in every location around the country.
I have updated the site as to potential dates for the coming Biblical year and thus the keeping of the appointed times of meeting with our Creator which I and my family will be following. May you have a safe and blessed holy day season.
Once back in the States I will prepare a summation of this years inspections as to lessons learned as well as those reinforced.
Thanks for your prayers,

Brian and Rick

Wednesday March 2, 2011

Second Report:

Hi Folks,

We covered a lot of ground today. As in the past we traveled the length of the Jordan Valley from the Dead Sea up to the Gilboa Mountains, across the Jezreel Valley, north to Tiberias, around the Sea of Galille, over the Golan Heights, and back through the Northern Jordan Valley.
Today is a duplicate of yesterday as to the condition of the barley. All is very young in every one of our traditional locations we checked. Even the roadside barley in the central Jordan Valley was at best case in the flowering stage. I have attached a picture with an example of it.
This area had not received what would be a normal rainfall. Even though the temperatures are there even in the winter to grow barley it needs water. The point being we will never use irrigated crops to establish the start of the year. Once again I refer to Deuteronomy 11:10-12. With that said, for all of you who have followed the meteorological conditions in Israel this winter the reports have come as no surprise. The pattern is establishing itself and will continue to do so. But, we must always have a witness to the fact. That is why I personally travel here each year regardless of what I may think may be the case.
Speaking about the connection between water, warmth, and growing, we have only to look at the grapes growing in the Jordan Valley. Many are leafed out because they are irrigated. Where no irrigation is applied they are dormant or just beginning to come to life just as those found in the Negev and Judean Hills. These are important lessons for us all so that we are not easily deceived.
We have not seen any storks migrating this year. It is one of the concurring events with the aviv. Tomorrow we will follow up with the fig trees and report on them as well.
We have not found any of the wild anemones this year. However we have seen a lot of flowers which resemble them from a distance. We have seen them in years we have intercalculated in the past. They have the shape of a big buttercup or a small tulip until they approach death and then spread their petals out and drop them. I looked up their name in the past and if I can dig it up I will pass it along with a picture in the near future.
Tomorrow we will focus on the area around the Old City, Mount of Olives, etc.

Brian and Rick

Tuesday March 1, 2011

First Report:

Hi Folks,

Hope things are well with you all. Rick and I started our inspections in the Negev and Judean Foothills today. I can start by telling you I have never seen the barley at such a young stage in my 10 years of conducting such. We were hard pressed to find barley out of the boot and in the early flowering stage. The pictures will make that point clear. Compare them to last years of the same locations.
The grapes are in the same state. Only one vineyard showed a touch of green and that was random throughout it.
Pierre had told me last week that the crops were quite young. He has been inspecting barley for calendar purposes since the early 1980's if I am correct. The winter wheat in many cases was still in the boot and in others just out of it. In many years the winter wheat is harvested before the barley crop is aviv in the Negev.
Tomorrow we will be inspecting in the Jordan valley up through the Golan Heights and many areas in between.

Brian and Rick

February 15, 2011

Hi Folks,

Rick and Brian will be in Israel the first week of March conducting inspections. They will send out daily reports which will be posted on the site. Your prayers for the success of the trip would be greatly appreciated.

The booklet: How to Determine the State of Aviv in the Barley Crop which grows in Israel is available here on the site in English, Spanish, and Hebrew names versions.

Thanks

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Pictures of Aviv seeds collected March 2009. Planted December 13th 2009

Pictures Taken 12/25/09 - 13 Days Growth

Abib Reports from Previous Years

- Some Basic Biblical Principles About Grain Agriculture

- A Response to the claim that the biblical year is a normal one instead of intercalculated