I’ve been having a brain tickle the last two days. This little thought kept popping into my head. Today I’m ready to share it with you. It affects the way I see the biblical calendar now for sure.
Before I believed that we were to parch or roast the barley only because it needs to be a bit green to be a viable harvest without the loss of grains due to sickle violence. But now, there’s a pattern that I can add to this scripture: Lev 2:14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits **green ears of corn dried by the fire, **even corn beaten out of full ears* (carmel, red barley under stress).*
Throughout the scriptures, we are told to ‘remember’ Ex13:3; Deut 5:15; Deut 15:15; Deut 16:3; Deut 16:12….and many other verses. I believe the reason that we are given a positive command to roast the green ears is not only to *dry* the grains to make flour but also because of the model that we are given in Egypt.
In the seventh plague of hail we are told something very specific:
Exo 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, **and the fire ran along upon the ground**; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Another very curious thing is that even though part or a portion of this harvest was parched and yes, destroyed due to the fire….can you imagine trying to collect those grains that are now separated laying apart individually from the ground? Oy, that would be horrific. NOT ALL of it was affected…..in other words as it was a type of firstfruits that were consumed. Let’s look at what is said in chapter 10
Exo 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exo 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and **they did eat every herb of the land**, *(this is the same wording that was used to announce the hail plague) and* all the fruit of the trees **which the hail had left**: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Now the rest of it had been harvested AFTER an initial harvest. We are given a very clear pattern from the very beginning….
I believe there is a verse that states the Elohim took the firstfruits of Egypt in the Psalms somewhere, when I find it I will add it here. So if you think to you might check back.
Psa 105:32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. :33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. :34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, :35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. :36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.Updated Mar 28, 2021, 9:32 AM
