Statement: “ask any farmer – even Jesus referenced the ‘fields being white.'”
Did you know when the barley first exits the boot that the heads that will hold the grains are very light pale yellow-green? The awns will be green, but if you look past the awns at the body of the head you will see the head presents itself with a very pale light color.
Did you also know for a few brief days each stalk of barley will be white with blooms and still have a light whitish appearance?
If you don’t have access to the heirloom wild barley 12 months out of the year it’s likely you will not have witnessed the aspect of the barley’s development.
In the quote above the thought is that only pale tan golden barley that would be ready to shatter is what is acceptable as a harvest and it is this condition being referenced in Yeshua’s words. Here’s the verse.
(Joh 4:35) 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**.
Consider that it should say *’white even now near to (G4314 pros) the harvest’*
Yeshua was speaking of the Samaritans. If this verse meant that these people were an acceptable firstfruits offering because they were “a shattering harvest” shouldn’t they have become a type of firstfruits at this moment? Or if this harvest is a tan ready to drop presentation and the harvest was *near *but not *now* wouldn’t the harvest have been lost instead of gathered?
If we read the next few scriptures:
(Joh 4:36) And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. :37) And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 4:38) I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Yeshua is speaking of the work that He Himself was working in this ‘field of Samaritans’. We can see in Acts 8:27 that Peter is still working in the ‘field of Samaritans’:
Act 8:25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and **preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans**.
We have to be careful to look at the whole picture for context and not just content.
On the top right of the photo is a single white barley head with newly exited from the boot or body. But if you will observe, even the flowering barley is still very light/white in appearance.Updated Mar 21, 2021, 4:29 AM