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The Grain Harvest
From Sowing to Storage
…they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the
harvest…Isaiah 9:3
2The Grain Harvest
The Festivals relate to agriculture
• Pesach - beginning of harvest
• Shavuot - end of grain harvest
• Succot - end of fruit, olive and wine harvest
3Ploughing
“You soften it with showers” Psalm 65:10
• Hard dry ground - first rains needed
• Rocky ground
4 Ploughing
The Plough
• light• one handle
5Ploughing
The Plough
“No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God” Luke 9:62
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7Ploughing
“…I have broken the bands of your yoke, and enabled you to walk with heads held high” Leviticus 26:13
The Yoke placed over the
neck pulls head down
My yoke is easy and my burden is light” Matthew 11:30
8Ploughing
“It is hard for you to kick against the goad” Acts 26:14
The Goad has point one end, small shovel other
end
9Sowing
The Seed sown in furrows or broadcast
The Parable of Luke 8:5-8• Path• Rock• Thorns• Good soil
10Sowing
Psalm 126:5-6
“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He that goes forth and weeps bearing precious seed,
shall come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves”
11Reaping
Barley
• Spring• Pesach
12Reaping
“Bring the sheaf of the first fruit of your harvest to the priest, he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD on the day after the Sabbath… and you shall eat neither bread nor grain … until this day.”
Leviticus 23:10, 11, 14
• Pesach 15 Aviv (Nisan)
• Wave offering 16 Aviv
• Controls start of Hebrew year
13LUNAR CALENDAR
• Each month – 29 1/2
• 12 months – 354 days
Extra month – Adar II, ensures barley is ripe for wave offering and delays Pesach.
14Reaping• Fine weather assured
Samuel prayed.
“Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD that He may send thunder and rain
and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great…” 1 Samuel 12:17