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!
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!
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!
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.
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.