Note: _{I've heard it put this way....."stand right dab in the middle of your lentil field and protect it"}.............loey





When Shamah made a stand and said "NO" to those thieves - God showed up and defeated them. At another time, Eleazor (one of David's 3 mighty men) defended a field of Barley. The others had fled, but Eleazar said, "NO," when the Philistines came after the harvest. It says that the, "Lord saved them (the 3 mighty's) by a great deliverance." So, what are you going to do about your harvest? Are you going to allow some Philistines to rip you off? Or are you going to make a stand and defend your harvest? It's harvest time - its harvest time.

Beautiful barley field!
In 2 Samuel 23:11 it talks about Shamah. Shamah had just been with Eleazar and had defeated the Philistines in a battle. The rest of the Israelites fled from the Philistines. They had enough. But there was a piece of ground, a field full of lentils and the Philistines decided they wanted that harvest of Lentils.
The Philistines had a habit of reaping other people's harvest. Shamah didn't run away though, it says that he stood in the middle of the field and defended the field of Lentils. With a great army? No!, by himself. God gave him great victory. Well you and I both know that there is no way that one man can ward off a troop of Philistines.

So I take it, you or others do not know about the barley ? Lentiles are not barley. Lentiles are used in a soup or pottage

You seem to know about the wheat and the tares. I thought you might know about the barley.

This is one of those mysteries hidden within the Word of God.

I know what it means - hence my nic - Mystery Man

IN Christ - MM

So why don't ya tell us mysteryman

You mean you of little faith ? Please !

I told you about Jesus Christ being the Prophet Elijah, now you want me to tell you about the barley ?

When your ready to receive, then I will tell you !

Love IN Christ - MM

You're such a fox

Barley actually

IN Christ - MM

A little additional information on barley. From: http://www.michaelroodministries.com/month_of_the_aviv.html

The Month of the Aviv

The biblical year begins on the first new moon after the barley in the land of Israel reaches the stage in its development that the Bible calls Aviv. Only by checking the state of the barley crop can we fulfill the Biblical commandment to “Keep the Month of the Aviv”(Deut 16:1). Only by fixing the calendar in harmony with the barley crop can we fulfill the commandment to celebrate the Hag Ha-Matzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) “at the time of the month of the Aviv, because in the month of the Aviv you went out of Egypt.” (Exodus 34:18)
A commitment of Jewish Karaites throughout the generations was to observe the Biblical precept to “Keep the Month of the Aviv”. To this very day, every Karaite takes an oath at the time of their marriage “to keep the Holy Days of YHVH according to the observation of the Aviv in the Holy Land of Israel”. Throughout the Middle Ages, a great effort was made to send messengers to Israel to check on the state of the barley crop. It was not uncommon that Karaitic Jews celebrated the Holy Days one

The modern Jewish calendar was established by Hillel the Second in the middle of the fourth century. Yet, the two reasons for its introduction are no longer relevant. Today, there are both enough Jews residing in and around Jerusalem to sight new moons, and ample means to communicate the sightings. NASA claims to have improved on the amazingly precise lunar cycle of 29.53059 days used in the Jewish calendar. And even though the monthly moon cycle varies by as much as +/- 0.7 days per lunar cycle, it has never been adjusted.

month after the Rabbinic Jews. As late as 1641, we learn from a Crimean Karaite pilgrim that the Karaites of the Middle East still followed the Biblical calendar, and in 1641 they celebrated all the Holy Days one month after the “Rabbinites”.
The “19 year cycle” has been adopted by the majority of the Jewish people instead of fixing the first month according to the barley crop. This cycle was invented at a time when reliable reports of the barley crop in the land of Israel were difficult to obtain. It added the occasionally necessary 13th month (7 times every 19 years), which keeps Passover in the spring of the year in a logical, yet Biblically unauthorized pattern. The Rabbinites recognize that the state of the barley crop determines the date of Passover (Sanhedrin 11a). Yet, since our return to the land, observation of the barley crop has proven that the rabbinic cycle is often in error, and now obsolete. Several times over the past decade, several Israelites have investigated the state of the barley crop at the time that the modern Jewish calendar declared the month of Aviv (Nisan), but discovered that the barley was not Aviv. It is a common occurrence for Rabbinic, Messianic, and even Karaitic Jews to celebrate the Biblical Holy Days one month too early!

Please note the error in paragraph's. In the orig. text, a paragraph is inserted into the body of another paragraph. You can easily adjust your reading to fully understand.

sorry, i didn't fix it before posting.

Noted and noticed - thank you

IN Christ - Christ IN -- MM

Sorry, MM, I put lentils in your barley soup!


_{... as he opened his mouth and spoke, a red laser light of fire came out of his mouth. It was fire, but it looked like a laser pointer. The Lord then said, "It is My Plumbline." He then said to me, "It’s Amos 7:7, 8."
Amos 7:
7Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. 8And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I am setting a plumb line as a standard in the midst of My people Israel. I will not pass by and spare them any more [the door of mercy is shut].}


TARES IN THE WHEAT




Galatians 6:9
9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
It is important to see the plan of the Father who is bringing other people into our lives. We are always being molded by each other. It is easy to stay with the certain and comfortable friendships, but there is a new order being laid out and new friends are coming. These new friends will add to us as God uses us to add to them. We will soon discover that our eyes are being opened to new ideas and styles. This new alignment and networking will produce great revelation and insight. We'll see God teaching us something about His love in a new way. That we might know the length and depth and breadth of His love!

Deuteronomy 8: 1-2
1 "Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

The process has been completed in those who have stood for years and under great pressure. A people who have allowed God to groom them for this place and didn't run away. The years of refining fire have produced vessels that He can entrust much to.

God is a rewarder of faith and diligent seekers. It is time. Time for seeing things that have been prophesied and hoped for.

Deuteronomy 8: 7-9
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8
a land of wheat and

barley,
of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

Isaiah 28:
16Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a Stone, a tested Stone, a precious Cornerstone of sure foundation; he who believes (trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone) will not be ashamed or give way or hasten away [in sudden panic]. 17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the hiding place (the shelter). 18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol (the place of the dead) shall not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you will be trodden down by it. 19As often as it passes through, it [the enemy's scourge] will take you; for morning by morning will it pass through, by day and by night. And it will be utter terror merely to hear and comprehend the report and the message of it [but only hard treatment and dispersion will make you understand God's instruction]. 20For [they will find that] the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself on and the covering too narrow for him to wrap himself in. [All their sources of confidence will fail them.] 21For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim, He will be wrathful as in the Valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work, and bring to pass His act, His strange act. 22Now therefore do not be scoffers, lest the bands which bind you be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land and the whole earth. 23Give ear and hear my [Isaiah's] voice; listen and hear my words. 24Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continue to plow and harrow the ground after it is smooth? 25When he has leveled its surface, does he not cast abroad [the seed of] dill or fennel and scatter cummin [a seasoning], and put the wheat in rows, and barley in its intended place, and spelt [an inferior kind of wheat] as the border? 26[And he trains each of them correctly] for his God instructs him correctly and teaches him. 27For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten off with a staff, and cummin with a rod [by hand]. 28Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it continuously. But when he has driven his cartwheel and his horses over it, he scatters it [tossing it up to the wind] without having crushed it. 29This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel [and] excellent in wisdom and effectual working.

Remember: Isaiah 28:17 I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet;

The Scales of Justice have fully tipped. God is now responding to the cry for Justice, and He is swiftly moving!

The Season of Separation we have now fully entered into, and the Deeper Purging that has begun will indeed prepare the way for the Pure Seeds of Truth to again be planted in the Hearts of men who will embrace Him in this fiery season. And it will be established for

a Harvest of Righteousness and Holiness to be produced inwardly within them
and then outwardly and only then can it be reproduced and demonstrated, but remember, it will be only by those who fully embrace this fiery season of the Lord and let Him thoroughly remove all that is darkness and sin from within them. But woe to those who reject His Plumbline in this season for they will be cut off and will find themselves dwelling fully in that darkness and they will be without His grace.

What or who are the wheat and the barley ? I know you know who the tares are. Now do you know who or what the wheat is, and what or who is the barley ?

Can be an interesting study. But it might not be for all to see.

Love IN Christ - MM

Barley
The righteous nations.

Mat 25:32 and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats;
Mat 25:33 and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.


I think Adullam went into this on one of his topics
http://www.christian-forum.net/index.php?s...st&p=170072

But I could be wrong. Lol.

... speaking of Adullam ... I miss him

maybe ... another one called out...

hmmmm...

Barley Green: On the Medicinal Benefits
of Barley Grass Powder
from “Barley Grass”, by Betsy Block, NATURAL HEALTH Magazine - Oct 1999 pg. 44

This Nutrient-packed "Green Food" May Fight Several Types Of Cancer, Clear Up Skin Problems, And Heal Ulcers.

WHAT IT IS - Barley grass (Hordeum vulgare) is the seedling of the barley plant. It is usually harvested about 200 days after germination, when the shoots are less than a foot tall.

NUTRITIONAL VALUE - A concentrated source of nearly three dozen vitamins and minerals, barley grass is particularly rich in vitamins A, C, B1, B2, folic acid, and B12; calcium; iron; potassium; and chlorophyll. Unlike most plants, barley grass provides all nine essential amino acids (those which your body can't produce).

HEALING CLAIMS - Barley grass is a powerful antioxidant that is believed to help the body kill cancer cells and overcome a variety of ailments, including acne and ulcers.

HOW IT WORKS - An antioxidant called alpha-tocopherol succinate - a potent relative of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) may be responsible for much of the plant's anti-tumor action, according to Allan L. Goldstein, Ph.D., head of the biochemistry department at George Washington University's School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., who has studied barley grass. Though its mechanism is unknown, alpha-tocopherol succinate seems to inhibit several types of cancer, including leukemia, brain tumors, and prostate cancer.

According to Yoshihide Hagiwara, M.D., a researcher in Japan and author of the book "Green Barley Essence" (Keats, 1985), barley grass helps cure skin diseases and ulcers by promoting the growth of new cells. It is not known exactly how this happens, although barley grass is high in chlorophyll, an antibacterial green pigment.

THE EVIDENCE - There have been no clinical trials of barley grass. In an experiment at George Washington University, Goldstein and his colleagues exposed leukemic cancer cells to dehydrated barley grass extract. The extract killed virtually all of them. Encouraged, the researchers then subjected brain cancer cells to the extract. It eradicated 30 to 50 percent of these cells. In a third trial, the extract inhibited the growth of three types of prostate cancer cells by 90 to 100 percent.
Compare Curing Massive Cancer With Green Barley Pills.

In Japan, where barley grass extract is popular, there is anecdotal evidence that it helps the body heal from many illnesses. In one informal study, a Japanese dermatologist observed a group of 7.5 patients with skin diseases ranging from melanosis (darkening of the skin) to eczema. The patients who took barley grass extract healed faster than did those who did not. They also noticed improvements in appetite and bowel regularity.

HOW TO TAKE - Barley grass is widely available in powder or pill form and is best taken on an empty stomach, 30 minutes before or two hours after a meal.

For disease prevention, Hagiwara advises taking 2 to 6 g of powder - dissolved in water or juice - two or three times a day. To treat skin or stomach ailments, you may need to take up to 12 g of powder two or three times a day. Expect improvements within three months.

CAVEATS - People with eczema or acne may notice some skin aggravation when they first take barley grass. Also, barley grass may initially cause nausea, diarrhea, or constipation. If any of these symptoms occur, you may want to cut back to 1/2 g twice a day, then slowly increase your dosage until your body adjusts.

Betsy Block is a freelance writer living in the Boston area.

NUTRIENT PROFILE

BY WEIGHT, dehydrated barley grass has 11 times the calcium of cow's milk, 5 times the iron of spinach, and more protein than sirloin steak. About 2 teaspoons (6 g) of barley grass powder contains the following*;

CALORIES 17
PROTEIN 1.4g
CALCIUM 30mg
IRON 3mg
POTASSIUM 170mg
VITAMIN A 3,120 IU
VITAMIN B1 15 mcg
VITAMIN B2 140 mcg
FOLIC ACID 52 mcg
VITAMIN B12 1.7 mcg
VITAMIN C 19 mg
CHLOROPHYLL 32.6 mg

*NUTRIENT VALUES VARY DEPENDING ON HARVESTING AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES.

I choose Barley ! LOL

IN Christ - MM

Predestined To Succeed
We Are His Workmanship,We Will Succeed
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Ephesians 2:10
10For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship),[a]recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

God the Father created us for Him by His workmanship, what is that? It is giving attention to every detail as He made us and formed us in his image.Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

So God takes this man that He recreated and predestines him to operate in God's greatness and His goodness, but do we see ourselves this way or has the enemy tried every possible way to distort our idea of who we are? As I minister from place to place I find that so many have not realized who they really are in Christ and so are hindered from operating in God's greatness which He before ordained us to walk into. And so what He has predestined us to walk in is hindered, but can never be stopped.
Our purpose is to be a
portrait of Him
operating in His awesome greatness and establishing His Kingdom this is our destiny.

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Operating In His Greatness Is Our Destiny
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The Father knows everything even before it happens and goes before us to prepare the way. I have spoken on this subject and God the Father has told me that even when we mess up, He goes before us to make it less messy otherwise it would possibly be a catastrophe. Our victories are so much greater because He is there even before it takes place. This is how awesome our God is in our lives.

The Father has prepared our paths so where we walk God has already been there and done that, He has pre-arranged your destiny so when you think you are the one who has accomplished the task, it was and has already been done by Him through you.

We face trials and see ourselves having so many troubles not realizing that our Father has prepared a place of rest and resolve for all our problems. That's why He tells us in the word of God to cast all of our cares on Him for He cares for our every need. 1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

God has predestined our lives and our future. This world thinks it dictates to us, but in all reality we dictate to the world, because God has called us and placed us in a place of authority to do so. What we see going on around us is real in the natural, but our God does not, nor is in any way restricted by the actions of the world.

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Desperate Lepers
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2 Kings 6:24-33
24Afterward, Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered his whole army and went up and besieged Samaria,

25And a great famine came to Samaria. They besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung [a wild vegetable] for five shekels of silver.

26As the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried to him, Help, my lord, O king!

27He said, [For] if he does not help you [No, let the Lord help you!], from where can I get you help? Out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?

(A Deception takes place)

28And the king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

29So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, Give your son so we may eat him, but she had hidden her son.

30When the king heard the woman's words, he rent his clothes. As he went on upon the wall, the people looked, and behold, he wore sackcloth inside on his flesh.

31Then he said, May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day!

32Now Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him. And the king sent a man from before him [to behead Elisha]. But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, See how this son of [Jezebel] a murderer is sending to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet [just] behind him?

33And while Elisha was talking with them, behold, [the messenger] came to him [and then the king came also]. And [the relenting king] said, This evil is from the Lord! Why should I any longer wait [expecting Him to withdraw His punishment? What, Elisha, can be done now]?

2 Kings 7

1THEN ELISHA said, Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will sell for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria!

2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, If the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be? But Elisha said, You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.

(This Captain had no Faith in what the Lord had already put in motion and would never partake of God's provision.)

3Now four men who were lepers were at the entrance of the city's gate; and they said to one another, Why do we sit here until we die?

4If we say, We will enter the city--then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the army of the Syrians. If they spare us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

5So they arose in the twilight and went to the Syrian camp. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no man was there.

6For the Lord had made the Syrian army hear a noise of chariots and horses, the noise of a great army. They had said to one another, The king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to come upon us.

Here we see the Spirit of God going before the four Lepers, placing fear in their hearts causing the whole army to vacate their camp leaving all possession's behind, God did this here and will do this now for us because He is the same today as He was then.

7So the Syrians arose and fled in the twilight and left their tents, horses, donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.

8And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them [in the darkness]. Then they entered another tent and carried from there also and went and hid it.

9Then they said one to another, We are not doing right. This is a day of [glad] good news and we are silent and do not speak up! If we wait until daylight, some punishment will come upon us [for not reporting at once]. So now come, let us go and tell the king's household.

10So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was neither sight nor sound of man there--only the horses and donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.

11Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told to the king's household within.

12And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.

13One of his servants said, Let some men take five of the remaining horses; [if they are caught and killed] they will be no worse off than all the multitude of Israel left in the city to be consumed. Let us send and see.

14So they took two chariot horses, and the king sent them after the Syrian army, saying, Go and see.

15They went after them to the Jordan. All the way was strewn with clothing and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their flight. And the messengers returned and told the king.

16Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had spoken [through Elisha].(A)

17The king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate, and the [starving] people trampled him in the gate [as they struggled to get through for food], and he died, as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to him.

18When the man of God had told the king, Two measures of barley shall sell for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria,

19The captain had told the man of God, If the Lord should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be? And he said, You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.(

20And so it was fulfilled to him, for the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died.

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A Solution Has Already Been Predestined!
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This story in God's word reminds me of our situations right now in the world. There are men that desire to attack us, and men that would desire to deprive us of things that are needful for everyday life. The price of everything is going up and the enemy would desire to place in us the Spirit of Fear, but God has gone before us, He has given us His word and His Spirit. An answer and a solution has already been predestined, our Father will use the most unlikely ways to solve the most difficult circumstances and some of the most unlikely people as His servants to do so, but when all is over and done what is will be no more and what was will again be the norm. Don't let your Hope be deferred, have Faith in God the author and the finisher of our Faith. Let God be true, proclaim those things that be as not as though they were. And That's the Fathersheart
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Deuteronomy 8: 7-9
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8
a land of wheat and

barley,
of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.