2) Some of the flowers have started; lupine, cyclamen, even crocuses, but the end of the dry season flower are still standing too. It’s so weird, lol. Obviously some plants of these are triggered more by the temperatures than by precipitation
3) even though the rains have not started the temperatures are much milder. What we are experiencing could even be compared to Autumn weather since there is no rain which modern Israel thinks of the rainy season as winter.
You gotta love the drama Elohim creates. No one can out do Him. I’m expecting and believe am seeing a lengthening of our transition into the next green season. I’m enjoying the cool weather without the usual rains that accompany it.
This year will go down in my book as the year of miracles. I pray every year going forward is as clearly delineated as this one has been.
When I look back at the situation I remember we were entering lockdown coming into the first of the biblical year. I remember יהוה showed up and supplied a beautiful field of wild barley the day before we entered into an extended time of not being allowed to leave the house if it was not ‘approved’ travel. And the miracle field was even in my legitimate line of travel. Just wow!
I remember how beautiful this one-time field that now no longer exists actually came to exist in our time of need; when we didn’t know we had a need! Frankly, it’s the most beautiful wild field of barley I’ve ever witnessed in Israel. Just wow!
The miracle field
To see Yah’s hand extended to us in a way and at a time, that we ALL were clueless it was possible to see wild barley so very early on the Gregorian calendar. How easy it would have been to miss the first flush of barley! Who knew? For sure we did not.
Or even that we should be already looking and expecting to see the ‘eseb’, the green grass of barley, above the earth. Just wow!
And then, let’s mention and remember, that after all these years of inspections of the wild barley fields, 20+ years by others, we were ALSO given a stunning wild field of wheat, heirloom wheat. The same type of wheat that was grown in Egypt when Jacob’s sons were there and the same type of wheat that was grown in the first century and offered in the tabernacle and temples. Just wow!
Beautiful heirloom wheat above the magnificent Sea of Galilee
I can hardly believe what I’m writing from our experiences this year. Our Yah is still a Yah of miracles.
John chapter nine is the story of a man who had been blind from birth, the Pharisees arrived on the scene to question everything about the miracle. There were those who didn’t accept the gift of early barley from our Yah; they questioned and rejected the timing and quantity. The first-century Pharisees rejected the blind man’s testimony because it didn’t seem possible that one blind from birth could be healed. Yeshua had messed up their sabbath by His miracle. This year’s preconceived sabbaths of the biblical calendar were interrupted by a miracle field. Some accepted some rejected. There were those who pointed to history and said, there’s not a premise for a biblical year to come this early. But Yah! He does His own will and pleasure. He’s the one that sends the rain to this land. He’s the one that causes the grains to sprout. Just wow!
Yeshua created new eyes for the blind man. Yeshua spat on the ground, made mud, and gave new eyes to a man who had never seen before. Praise Him! We were given eyes to see this year and to see what could have so easily been missed.
Now to mid-year, the grapes, and the figs. Spot on timing. Oh Abba, you are just wow!
Grapes 2021
And finally to the olives, which I know so little about. Did they harvest ripe olives to make oil for the temple? Or green olives? Ripe olives release more oil but it’s not as pure because the flesh disintegrates. Green olives make the most nutritious and cleanest oil. Note to self, dig into history and try to find out before next year. I was happy to see some of the olive turning ripe, a sure sign all of the olives would make oil for the temple.
Olive, photo taken on Aug 23, 2021
All of this is as new to me as it is to you. We are all on a very steeple learning curve about the seven firstfruits offerings. In 2019, it was just a whisper to my spirit I was beginning to hear. It’s His timing that He has chosen to restore this understanding to His Beloved. His treasures, aspects of His character, aspects of our character as we lay down more and more flesh and mimic Him.
I can’t think of a time in recorded history that it was not Yah reaching out to His people, to His prophets, His kings, His priest first to see if they would follow in obedience.
Now, Beloved of the Most High, you have certainly been equipped with enough proofs of Yah’s hand in the timing of the true biblical calendar this year. Your work is cut out for you. Be as the Bride (pomegranate) of the Beloved in the Song of Songs whose mind is only fixed to her Bridegroom . She only speaks about Him and her speech draws others to Her Beloved, they ask: why is her Love better than their love? Afterward, they are found seeking Him together!
Even though the firstfruits have been gathered there’s no time to rest. The fulfillment of the seventh month and the restoration of all things are on the horizon. Work while there are yet daylight hours to work. Speak of the miracle year and Yah’s provision of proof to His utterly perfect timing. His Biblical Calendar and His sabbaths of worship. Amen.
Beginning, mid, and end: Deu 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
The new moon of the seventh month was seen the evening of August 9th from Israel, included is a single sneak preview photo. Please see the newsletter for more detail
The first of the poms and dates are in the Supermarket and shuk (city market). This means when the next new moon is seen the final ingathering fruits will be ready to be presented at the final go-up-to Jerusalem feast which is Sukkot, or Feast of Tabernacles.
Flint sickle blades…..can your understanding of Aviv-barley survive a primitive harvest? This subject is so very important in determining when to harvest the fragile heirloom barley.
It’s exciting these sickle-blade relics were discovered on the Galilee at a point I pass by with great frequency. The excavation is called Ohalo. It’s part of a larger area called Tel Beit Yerach. Beit Yerach, House of the Moon, was a very ancient community that once sat on a new moon island where the Sea of Galilee opens to allow the Jordan River to continue its course south to the Dead Sea. The island has been bridged to the mainland over the years as when time filled in the portion of the river that had previously divided the island from the mainland.
What’s even MORE exciting to me is that this little island was the shape of a new crescent moon with the horns of the moon-shaped island facing east just as the moon in the sky does when it is in sickle on days one through four.
Since I frequent past this location, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Jordan sill maintains an underground water channel in the area of the landbridge. My clue is the eucalyptus trees. The trees still grow as majestic and tall where the river once flowed as they do where the Jordan can still be seen.
