Barley Bride of Christ

The ‘Three Harvests’ view of our redemption:

The harvest model for Christ’s gathering of His saints is the deep Biblical understanding. There must be more than one grain harvest of saints. God bless this Australian Brother in Christ, Wayne Fowler, who made this video in the middle of the night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmtffx1E27U It showed me how all the popular rapture timing scenarios are basically true! He’s made many other videos on this topic, and I’ve come to appreciate many of them. That just happens to be the one I saw first. Hallelujah! I was already on the verge of figuring it out, as I’d already written about the Daniel 12:2 resurrection, which Daniel called the ‘second part’ of the first resurrection. Thank you to Jesus; I must’ve just needed somebody to point it out. Now it seems obvious.

Even among the growing group of people who recognizes the three harvests of the body of Jesus Christ: barley, wheat and gleanings, or barley, wheat and grapes (not everyone has the exact same interpretations regarding them):

At first I leaned toward the barley, wheat, gleanings model – because it seems, by Rev. 14, that the grapes are the harvest of the wicked. https://ref.ly/Re14; But, now I embrace the barley, wheat and grapes model because there are two different grape harvests mentioned in
Rev. 14. I think one of them is the grapes of wrath but the one where Jesus Christ holds the sickle is the owner’s portion of the grape harvest of the Jews.

The fulfillment of the barley harvest comes in at Shavuot/Feast of Weeks/Pentecost, a 50 days count, using inclusive counting, from the First Fruits holy convocation.

It seems to be a highly likely time for Jesus to harvest His bride for many reasons. I wrote this page before I discovered a lot more supporting information, but the information here was very useful to me at that time. It covers basic things that I have not written about elsewhere in See the Glory of God – Beyond the Veil.

The wheat harvest that soon follows, is the main harvest of the Church of Christ, those who weren’t mature enough when Jesus Christ came to gather His bride among believers who were alive in the last days.

Links to some ‘three harvests views’: 1. Rapture Barley Wheat Grapes, Who goes and when? by Rennie Helder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BiPyW8x3c0 2. V139 Rapture of the Children Of The Bride chamber by Sue Keith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8LtJtarEE 3. – as above – Basics of the 3 Rapture/Harvests about to take place, by We are the Overcomers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmtffx1E27U 4.The Harvests – Barley & Wheat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-B0S2qebBc

And, a very nice and seemingly flawless teaching link, for beginners, about: The Barley Harvest: The Book of Ruth by Johannes Gerloff EN – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagQyPUOWBc

Pentecost along with the entire Torah calendar can be delayed for one month.

The delay of the month called Abib:

Experts in the Levitical priesthood and the government were assigned to determine if fresh, green heads of barley were starting to form by the end of the 12th month on God’s Calendar. When the early, green, barley heads were not forming, the priests and leaders of Judah would inter collate an additional month, just as they do in leap years, to delay the beginning of the coming year. (During the Babylonian Captivity, the 12th month was given the name ‘Adar,’ and the first month had a name change from Abib to Nisan.)

Here’s an excellent, sober teaching video on this. Torah Calendar Basics — Nazarene Israel. (It’s all about the Abib!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jGKMlSKpr4

The final decision for when to inter collate months, was made by the ‘Nasi’, the president of the Sanhedrin. It was his job to make this determination, which was usually influenced by the viewing the Spring equinox as a scientific tool to help orient how far off season they have slipped. Inter collation of a leap month was usually necessary about every third year in order to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread landing in the general vicinity of Spring, otherwise it’d slip into winter, because of the discrepancy between the lunar and solar calendars. When inter collation was done for the purposes of allowing more time for lagging barley maturation, the overall calendar would be balanced out in the following leap-year by refraining from adding the expected additional month.

Heavy Proof links:

1.What the Bible says about Abib https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/CGG/ID/22964/Abib.htm

2.The Jewish Leap Year Explained. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-jewish-leap-year-explained/

3.What’s the Big Deal About Abib Barley? It’s in the Bible, so you need to know! https://hoshanarabbah.org/blog/2013/12/29/about-abib-barley/

4.The harvest of the first fruits of barley began at the tail end of the sabbath day at twilight: https://blogs.bible.org/the-seven-feasts-of-israel-firstfruits/

First things first:

Shavuot/Feast of Weeks/Pentecost/Barley Harvest Fulfillment!

Shavuot means ‘weeks’ or ‘sevens’, and Feast of Weeks refers to a ‘week of weeks’ or 49 days plus one, because Shavuot is observed the day following the weekly Sabbath. Pentecost means ’50’. All those titles refer, generally, to the 50 days between the first fruits of a Biblical agricultural grain product to its fulfillment and perhaps even to other crops, – but more specifically and importantly to the ‘barley crop’. Again, it’s all about the harvest! Check out the wording . . .talking about the harvest of the first fruits . . . Deuteronomy 16: 9-10: “Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you.” See, this is independent of moons, equinoxes, etc.

You will hear other arguments, but there is only one Feast of Weeks/Shavuot in the O.T. that’s of high order, a specially appointed meeting with God day. Here’s the proof:

¹⁶ Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: ¹⁷ Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 16: 16-17

(That’s the reason why there was such a large company of people in Jerusalem who spoke foreign languages when the Holy Spirit came into the disciples of Jesus Christ, ten days after His ascension. I’m saying people and not ‘men’ because of what I’m reading in Deut. 16: 9-12: “Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain” (green barley – beware of translations that say ‘corn’ or translate all grains as ‘wheat’). “Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.  And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.  Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.” Complete Deuteronomy 16: https://ref.ly/Dt16

So you can see, regarding other harvests . . .

Just because there are other harvests from the land of Judah, besides the Barley Harvest, that may have first fruits presented to God at the temple, and probably even reach the conclusions of their harvests about 50 days later, doesn’t mean they’re also associated with the highest caliber of God’s Holy Convocations/Appointments with the Lord. Only the Barley Harvest has that special status!

Jesus Christ’s gathering of His bride is possibly Satan’s most dreaded event, and, whether it’s delayed or not, he’ll do anything to try to mislead saints into missing the Fulfillment of the Barley Harvest Rapture of the Bride of Jesus Christ at the one and only Shavuot/Feast of Weeks Holy Convocation that’s is also a pilgrimage where all men (sons of Jacob) must appear before God!

The first fruit of the first fruits!

Jesus Christ became the First Fruits from the Dead on the day of the First Fruits of the Barley Harvest. The barley harvest is also the first of all harvests in a year on God’s holy calendar. Then, after a 50 day count which, ends ends at the Holy Convocation of Feast of Weeks/Shavuot, the rest of the barley harvest comes in. That’s why ‘Shavuot’ is the Fulfillment of the Barley Harvest!

The ‘Bride of Jesus Christ’ seems to be a special category of the ‘Body of Jesus Christ’.

As I understand it, the ‘Bride’ is made up of saints modeled after the Church of Philadelphia Rev. 3: 8, 10: “I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth!”

Our Lord is the Head, the Bride is the part of the body that comes next (probably because they’re longing for His return more that anything in the world, are watching as they see the day approaching and are very careful to smash their olives in order to ensure extra oil for their lamps), the Main Body, (the vast majority of the saints,) will come in the ‘wheat harvest’ and then finally, by God’s super love and grace – the gleanings saints are finally resurrected as well, even though they come out of the first part of the God’s wrath. Another reason it makes sense that the Bride will be gathered at the time of the Fulfillment of the Barley Harvest, is because in this way the Bride of Christ will be made of the very same substance that Jesus our bridegroom was. This is reminiscent of Adam and Eve being of one flesh:

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 2: 23-24.

I hope to see you in the air – when pray tell?

Here are date calculations – not the very wrong dates given on the Chabad website, as traditional Judaism has resorted to ‘counting the omer’ (the 50 day promise of a full harvest) starting from the day after the Passover Seder meal!

Here’s a well done and very complete proof for Bereans who want to be sure, absolutely sure why Chabad is wrong and how to count the omer correctly! https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/PERSONAL/k/51/Countdown-Pentecost.htm

But, Torah commands the 50 day counting to begin on ‘First Fruits’, “from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain”. There seems to be something highly unusual happening here – in that the harvest seems to have begun at twilight, under a forth quarter moon, continuing through sunset and into the dark hours of the first day of the week! This is the only case of work being done on a Sabbath before Jesus’ time that I know of! Not surprising because it’s the exact hour in which He was rising from the dead as the First Fruits from the dead!

(Just to be clear, we’re talking about the weekly Sabbath immediately before the Appointed Day called First Fruits. It’s the first weekly Sabbath after the Passover Seder.)

9 “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.

Deuteronomy 16: 9-10

(When Torah was written the days of the week were numbered, not named, with the exception of Sabbath, the seventh day. But many English Bible teachers call the first day ‘Sunday’ and the seventh day ‘Saturday’ for convenience, with the understanding that Torah days started at sunset not midnight, and noting that sunsets fall at different hours throughout the year.)

In 2024, if Shavuot/Feast of Weeks were correctly observed according the the Torah, it would have been, from sunset to sunset June 16 to June 17 Jerusalem time. That’s assuming a sufficiently maturing barley crop (Bride of Christ). I believe Jesus Christ is tarrying right now. Only He knows why, but I think, perhaps there are many whom He loves who are coming into maturity momentarily and that He’s waiting for them. Maybe they’re the Barley Gleanings. Or, perhaps all or most of us are a little bit under mature and through our meeting with each other, in truth, (online or otherwise) we can support each other to reach maturity.

An easily missed, yet important point:

Even though it’s true that Shavuot is also the moed in which the first fruits of the ‘wheat harvest’ were presented by Levite priests to YHWH at His Temple (the waving of leavened loaves) don’t confuse the first fruits of the ‘wheat harvest’ with the wheat harvest itself, which will take place about 50 days later; or with the first fruits of the ‘barley harvest, which had been presented to YHWH exactly 49 days prior (the waving of the sheaves).

When to start the omer count?

Rabbis still ‘count the omer’ even though they have no temple, as they’ve made many adaptations. But in 2024, if it had been done correctly, and there was a temple, and the crops were not delayed and they were grown according to the specific rules, (such as using no fertilizer) – the First Fruits of the Barley Harvest (the day the sheath of a barley wave offering is commanded to be presented) would’ve been on Sunday, April 28th. That’s because the First Fruits of the Barley Harvest is commanded in Torah to be observed on the day following the first weekly Sabbath after the Passover Seder, on the first day of the week!

¹⁵ “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. ¹⁶ Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

Leviticus 23: 15-16

Counting the omer . . .

Here’s a good video by God a Minute – that explains some of the counting. Rainbow Visual Feast Of Weeks June 16th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7hCahIMlYM His teaching helped lead me in the right direction of how to correct my counting of the omer by using an inclusive type of count. (When he uses the word Sunday he means the ‘first day’ sunset to sunset.)

This part can be a little confusing so I’m editing it, on June 23 ’24:

To get the count right, one way to understand it, as mentioned above, that the actual physical harvest of the first fruits part of the barley crop, was started at the very tail end of the preceding Sabbath, which is why on First Fruits, the count attributes the ‘number 1 ‘or ‘one day’ to ‘First Fruits’ itself. (Normally when a count is done, we wouldn’t attribute the number ‘one’ until a day has passed from the starting point of counting!)

‘The Parable The 10 Bridesmaids,’ Jesus, the bridegroom, implied He might tarry.

Jesus gave us this warning in the parable – don’t t run out of oil should He tarry. It occurred to me that there might be a few barley harvest gleanings who our Lord would like to include as His Bride – at the last minute – to His glory! Or perhaps He tarries because His Barley Bride is not quite mature enough! How wonderful! Jesus said, “I’m the Lord of the Sabbath”; So, is He also the Lord of the Moedim (the Appointed Days). In fact, Jesus Christ is the First Fruits of everything, everything good!

Just a reminder – even with a month delayed leap year type beginning of God’s Calendar of Appointed Days which would’ve pushed forward Passover, First Fruits and Pentecost/Shavuot, the expected date window for the harvest of souls this year – Jesus could still be tarrying, on top of that one month extension, in order to gather the barley gleanings at the same time. This is especially possible with the Barley Bride of Christ scenario.

We know we’re in the last seven years of God’s 6,000 year plan, divided into 4,000 yrs. before the cross (Adam to Abraham then Abraham to Jesus) and 2,000 yrs. after the cross, to the final Victory of our Savior Armageddon.. In addition to all that, there are the huge end times prophetic events unrolling faster than we can write about them. I’m trying, in fact, that makes up the bulk of this ‘active document.’ But, if you haven’t seen Messiah 2030 and similar presentations yet, it/they will be very helpful. For the Messiah 3030 link click https://wordpress.com/post/veilofrandomness.wordpress.com/3150 then scroll to the bottom of that post.

Recap . . . and more about . . .Why the bride?

That’s another reason why I think Shavuot/Pentecost is the most likely moed/Appointed Day upon which Jesus Christ will resurrect/rapture His Bride. Bride and marriage go together! First covenant and second covenant also!