Author: Becca

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Opening barley heads and checking grains

Not doughy, not yet, almost there! But I think I can narrow my attention to this single field. The south end has the most barley at the end of the squished worm stage.  Shoshana was with me today.

The last time I was in the field the south end had bloomed. Now the rest of the field has bloomed or is blooming. It’s the south end that’s the furthest advanced. I also noticed a secondary field on the other side of the olive trees as I was leaving. I didn’t have time today but I do want to go back and see that area just to see what I can see. It looked to be in a very similar condition
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Mandrake fruit

Gen 30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found **mandrakes** in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
 
Right on schedule. The green fruit of the mandrake will ripen as the black wheat ripens and approaches Shavuot
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Fields that are white unto harvest

There’s a very common misconception about this verse:
Joh 4:35 KJV Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
 
Did you know the wheat of the first century turns black as it ripens?
 
Did you also know that white stalks of ripe barley will no longer have seeds heads attached? They would have long ago shattered and dropped their seeds to the earth.
 
So, what and how is a grain crop ‘white unto harvest’?
 
When the barley first exits the body of the plant its lacking a bit of chlorophyll. It comes out a very very light lime green.
Why is this color important? In the middle east, linen was widely worn being warm in the rainy season and bring cool in the dry season. Linen is made from a green plant. Natural linen has a green tinge to the color of the fabric. Every time the linen is washed it becomes lighter but also keeps a slightly green tinge.
 
To this day, the Samaritan priests still wear linen tunics.
In the photo below, is a new head of barley before it has obtained photosynthesis. And photo of new natural raw linen threads.
White unto harvest are plants that have everything to bring forth fruit but does not yet contain  a grain/ a harvest.
 
The Samaritan still only acknowledge the books of Moses and reject the knowledge of Yeshua Messiah.