Abib of God Elohim

Second post: Sabbath March 5, 2022

 

Hi Folks,

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It is an exciting time of year watching things come to life and many going through their growth cycle stages. Creation is just amazing.

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The Eurasian banded doves are showing up in numbers in Israel right on time as the migration takes place. It will only be a matter of a few days when the first spires of migrating white storks appear over the skies of Israel unless inclement weather holds them up. The big migration will start later in the month.

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Figs in the lower elevations should be starting to show themselves from their winter hibernation and then move up in elevations as the month progresses.

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You can view these key dates on the Typical March calendar we have put together. They hold true each and every year.

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But now to the differences in barley and how we are commanded to acknowledge them in our yearly inspections.

Let me start with stating how gratifying it is to me, after all these years to see brethren, and even those who do not consider themselves as part of the Body of Christ/Messiah maturing to the width, height, and depth of the Abib Calendar of God/Elohim. It is a watershed doctrine of our times here at the end of the age. It is a learning process.

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The setting is truly white for harvest, even though there is yet time before it takes place. Thank you, Father!

For this post we can simply say people want to know more details about the wild barley and domestic barley in the Land. Most of these folks have not taken the time to read through our writings about them. I understand that, and I understand the zeal which can drive a person to get to that point and skip the time it normally would take to do so. There is a danger in that, for salvation is in the details, not just the answer at the end.

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I often refer back to our Saviors use of the parable of the Sower as part of our Biblical guidlines. He demonstrates the parallel understanding between grain sown in different types of soils, and the successful efforts to salvation depicted in what is harvestable.

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In this post we will not be talking about the seeds sown by the wayside. Nothing we can do about that spiritual scenario He describes. It is above our pay grade so to speak.

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However, the next three are very important to our understanding of the agricultural and Biblical principles and patterns we use in determining what is acceptable and what is not acceptable; not only for a harvest, but for a Wavesheaf to start that harvest.

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Let’s review this parable and our Saviors answers so the details are all fresh in our mind for how they apply to the barley crops evaluation. For my Jewish friends reading this, bear with my folly in your eyes for a bit until we get to what you are looking for. Thank you.

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Matthew 13  “Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: Behold, a Sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them (didn’t even germinate). Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of soil. But when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they withered away (did not come to an acceptable harvest ready condition. This is what we call Goat Grass). And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them (this has, and is happening to some who started in the awareness of the growth cycle of the Abib Calendar, but have been deceived by false witnesses). But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty (they came to an acceptable harvest condition with some good ground being more nutritious than others, but the key is a successful harvest ready condition). He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

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Now to the spiritual realities of this instruction from Christ/Messiah:

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“Therefore, hear the parable of the Sower: when anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand, then the wicked comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

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“He answered and said to them, because it has been given to you to know the mysteries (hidden truths) of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Therefore, I speak to them (who is them?) in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:

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Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with eyes and hear with ears, lest they should understand with hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.

But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous desired to see what you see, and did not see, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”

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So please do not lose any sleep over those who do not understand the hidden truths of the scriptural patterns. When I have spoken to these things in the past there were some who considered themselves as being part of the Body of Christ/Messiah who stopped listening, and in some cases even vilified me for using spiritual realities tied to physical undertakings. What a badge of honor to wear in the Household of Father.

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I believe that Christ/Messiah is not only my Sacrificial Lamb of Fathers Household, but also my Wavesheaf Offering of Fathers Household. He was beaten and threshed on my behalf for I am a Gentile who is grafted into Native Israel. Thus, He is my Wavesheaf. The harvest of the Second Marriage Covenant starts with Him. It must be a Holy Harvest of unblemished grain. Thus, He instructs us the grain growing in anemic ground is anemic and blemished and will not be considered as harvest ready in the Biblical reality of it even if it does make it to a form of maturity. So why would we use it to declare it acceptable as a wavesheaf to start the year? That is Biblically insane.

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So, let us deal with the Goat Grass which is growing in stony soils. Scriptures instruct me that I am not to use this wild barley growing in stony ground because of its many shortcomings as well as it being acceptable for coming to a harvest.

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Why?

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Because the ground does not hold the right amount of nourishment and certainly not the right amount of moisture to sustain it when the weather turns to warm and dry. Those are the instructions of our Savior, not mine. That speaks to the strength of the relationship between our Savior and ourselves as delivered by our use of the spirit of the Elohim. The true nourishment of one bound to Them both. The Father and the Son. The good soil to ensure strong sustained growth in favor and acceptance and knowledge of our Lord and Savior. Leave Him out of the equation and you will come up short in your understanding, application, or the timing of the Abib Calendar.

We have shown this classification of ground and the effects it has on the wild barley for many, many years now. You can view them in the historical records of our abib inspections on the website. Unfortunately, there are some inspectors in the Land who do not agree with that, nor do they understand why not. I do not have a problem with that. I emptied myself of that emotional condition associated with it back in 2005 and now just address the factual failures of using this blemished barley and their use of it.

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What has been good to read this year is that some (probably only one) who use this wild barley from unacceptable stony ground, only use it as an indicator for the timing of the real harvest of acceptable barley. I know this method well myself as do some others.

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It is an established fact, and recorded in our historical reports, that this anemic barley can be used to ascertain the previous meteorological growing conditions in its life cycle to date in different areas. That is important for it is those conditions which regulate the speed and success of growth in acceptable grains from good ground. You can read about that once again in our past reports.

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No doubt you have been seeing pictures and videos of this anemic wild barley growing in anemic stony soils. If the rains are good it is sustained for a longer time than if they were not. Stony and sandy soils shed moisture very quickly in Israel so they need a sustained amount of rain to keep them alive. That has happened for the most part this Biblical year in the Land. Thus, you can see some nice stands of maturing anemic wild barley. But the moment the rains stop it will force itself to grow up faster than it is supposed to in stony soils. That usually manifests itself in the head with only a few seeds out of many maturing to physiological maturity which is the definition of aviv. Those few seeds are always located in the center of the head leading to it easily shattering out of its actual time cycle. Thus, a blemished anemic plant unacceptable to be deemed harvestable by our Saviors standards.

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With this all said, and to which much more could be added, we look for wild barley growing in good ground. We also want to see it growing in or adjacent to domestic barley fields. Good soils are ones that can be tilled using the instruments of the day in which Christ/Messiah walked the earth in the flesh.

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Please listen to this agricultural fact. Wild barley growing in good ground/soil, in or adjacent to domestic barley that had been planted before the winter rains start will both mature at the same rate in Zadok’s growth cycle in Israel. They are both subject to the exact same meteorological conditions and timings of germination, etc. Our Elohim oversee the meteorological conditions as they have promised in scripture; from the very beginning to the very end of the yearly cycle. (Deut. 11:10-12)

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We have posted many pictures and detailed explanations of this happening during our inspections over the years. It is very important to being accurate about the timing of the year changing from winter to summer, and thus, a new Biblical Year for counting when we are to keep the annual appointed times of rehearsal with our Elohim.

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No Goat Grass allowed as a determining factor, just an indicator to use in evaluating. And then only when acceptable samples of “harvestable” grain can be seen growing and evaluated as to their potential timing through the use of Zadok’s Scale.

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Just a small digression:

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Do you think it is a coincidence that there is a scale for judging barley growth throughout its cycle being called Zadoks here at the end of the age?

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The only family that remained loyal to our Elohim under the terms and conditions of the First Marriage Covenant was the household of Zadok as scripture instruct us. If you want the short version of this Biblical fact and its future outcome, please read Ezekiel 44:10-16. This is our Elohim speaking and their sense of humor being directed at all the self-proclaimed and self-indulgent proclaimed Levites of our time. In those instructions He also tells us all other Levites will be janitors in the Temple.

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So, all you self-proclaimed levites of this day who insist on telling me and others you set the criteria for determinations of times and seasons, take a hike. Practice on the humility of floor scrubbing skills around the sacrificial altar and service to others instead of wanting to have the chief seat among us. That role is already filled by our Head, our Savior. Now back to the barley.

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Many are curious of how I look at the relationship between the wild barley and the domestic barley? Once again this is primarily for the new folks but also useful to others.

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The answer is simple agriculturally and Biblically: they are sisters who witness to us. Yes, 2 witnesses. However, there are rules associated with their testimony. I will get to them shortly. Let’s review their genetic construction.

Both have 14 chromosomes, seven pairs of two each equaling 14. That is special because that continuity does not exist in their cousins, the wheat. Only Einkorn wheat has 14 chromosomes (2 sets of 7 chromosomes). It even looks a lot like wild and 2 row domestic barley. Its sisters have a minimum of 28 chromosomes, with modern wheat toping it all off with 42. Lots to think about their, eh!

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Both wild (Hordeum Spontaneum) and domestic (Hordeum Vulgare) may be sisters, but there is a big difference which speaks to many things including which can actually sustain a harvest, and which cannot sustain a harvest.

The domestic grain has what is referred to as a gene mutation, which is really not a mutation, but an enhancement with a spiritual reality likened to it. It is labeled BT1- BT2. (It has been in play for millennia if not from the beginning.) This is very important in agricultural and Biblical terms and to our understanding of the 7 weeks of harvesting times allotted for the first harvest, the barley harvest.

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Simply put, this domestic barley difference allows the domestic head with the grain in it to stay intact for many weeks after it has reached physiological maturity, which in fact takes place somewhere between Zadoks 8.5 and 8.7 as we have demonstrated often in the past which you can see the results of our experimenting with it on the website. That physiological timing of being able to reproduce itself in its seeds applies to both wild and domestic.

On the other hand, wild barley, even growing amongst the domestic barley is not able to withstand the beating of a harvest.

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Why?

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Because wild barley will always fall apart in the head after it has reached physiological maturity. You try to cut it and the head breaks up falling to the ground. Or, if in your hand falling apart there. We have demonstrated this often but some newer folks may not understand this or even be aware of this difference between the 2 barley sisters.

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One of our past apprentices in inspections has convinced a bunch of people that when Israel entered the Land the only barley that was there to harvest was wild barley. That would have been a frustrating hoot to watch for those folks coming into the Promised Land of milk and honey. They would want to turn around to the easy pickings of manna. You could not in any way bundle physiologically mature wild barley into sheaf's to stand in the field to dry. The heads would fall apart in almost every instance at first contact. Then you would be facing a forever gleaning project ahead.

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So, when you hear us talking about wild barley in terms of harvesting a wavesheaf etc., we are talking about the timing of its ability to be mature enough for it to reproduce itself after the pattern of Genesis. And you will only ever hear us making this claim for wild barley which comes from good ground; not stony ground, and for that matter not from locations which are choked out by weeds after the example Christ/Messiah gave us earlier, or from locations defiled by sheep and goats meandering through them eating and defecating on them.

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Please remember the rules of Leviticus apply to all of this regardless of which Covenant scriptures you are looking at. Both shoes, as an old friend of mine used to say. However, he only wanted me to use one and that is all I actually needed to his dismay. You may want to brush up on the rules associated with a Holy Grain Offering.

Once again, wild barley has never been used as the actual harvestable crop. We can use the anemic wild barley growing in stony ground to establish what the growing season has been like to that point, and with years of experience watching the varying patterns to it, establish a base timeline to maturity of acceptable grains. This is just one of the many benefits of being involved with the entire growth process like a good farmer does from beginning to end.

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Farming is hard work. Remember Isaiah 28: 23-26 clearly defines the rules of harvestable grain crops as to their environments they are found in and the work put into it.

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“Give ear and hear my voice, listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? For He instructs him in right judgment, his God/Elohim teaches him.”

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Barley is planted in its appointed place which has been plowed, broken down and leveled, thus prepared for planting. That is not wild barley in stony ground folks. Either we believe the scriptures, or we do not. Thus, we do not use anemic wild barley from stony ground in our final analysis. It has its purpose at times, it is not the decision maker.

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We use wild and domestic barley growing in good soil, either together or side by side with each other. Two witnesses. But, one has to be aware of when the domestic barley was planted. If it was long after the rains of winter starting (because that can happen with the technologies used today in farming) it will be maturing much later than the wild barley growing in it and around it due to a later germination. Thus it could not be used that year for its timing was manipulated outside of our Elohim. In that case we would use the wild barley without the domestic in our evaluation. But there must be no shortcomings in assessing a large number of areas to see what the norm was in that particular year as has happened to us twice in the past.

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And then we have the other 9 witnesses placed in creation and recorded as to their purpose in the determination process in scripture, in determining the Biblical start of the year; it’s changing from winter to summer in the Promised Land, the place where our Elohim has His focus on, from the very beginning of the year to the very end of the year. If a majority of them are not present with the to support a sketchy barley growth cycle at the end of the 12th Biblical Month then our Elohim has different plans and the current year is extended.

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Something of interest to some of you may be the fact that the drought resistant gene in wild barley has been identified and is being added to the domestic barley in some experiments in Israel. Mankind just keeps trying to improve what God/Elohim has put in place. To date there had never been this type of manipulation to the barley. Both the wild and the domestic had not been genetically altered.

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In spiritual realities associated with the barley sisters I look at the domestic barley in some characteristic respects as the body of Christ/Messiah. The head is not easily broken and all the seeds hold tightly together when trouble arises and violence ensues through the strength of the head. The wild barley does its best, but without the gene “mutation” it will fall apart before its time. But giving credit where credit is due, the wild barley growing in good soils is very well equipped to survive drought conditions. The domestic is as well, but nowhere near the ability of her wild sister. That is an admirable, as well as a desirable characteristic in spiritual terms.

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For those of you who do not look to Christ/Messiah in your belief structures, or in your understanding of the grain harvest with respect to spiritual realities in Israel, please, just use the other stuff spoken of here by me in your understandings.

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I hope that can help answer the questions of some as to what my understanding of the abib inspection process is based on, utilizing the wild and domestic barley.

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Lots more information to come in the days ahead God/Elohim willing.

 

Our Peace we give to you.