Ex 9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
A lot of people are teaching that in Ex 9:31 the barley was ‘destroyed’. I want to ask you to consider this against the barley as a typology of the Messiah. If the barley is a typology of the Messiah then the barley was not destroyed as some would have you to believe.
It was Yeshua’s human body (barley) that was raised from the grave. Was it smitten or struck? Yes. Did it fall down? Yes. Was it destroyed? No. His human body (barley) was raised from the dead. He told Mary not to touch him. Then told Thomas to touch him. Touch what? His human body. His hands and his side. He ate fish and honey with his disciple on the shores of the Galilee after His resurrection. He was in his human form.
Barley represents all humanity. The only difference between types of barleys are the people that become unleavened barley loaves as Messiah was unleavened.
We saw last year that the winds blew down the tall barley in our Aviv field. That barley though laying on the ground was able to finish developing its grain. It would have been an increase in the amount of labor but the barley could have been lifted and still harvested. Though it was smitten by the wind, in this case, it was not destroyed when it was knocked to the earth.
Messiah says “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12:24 The seed falls to the ground and dies, but it doesn’t mean the body of it was destroyed. The seed was not shattered.
Yeshua was referring to himself when he said a grain of wheat. As the Son of Man he was the rosh habikkrim of BARLEY (mankind); and as the Son of Elohim He carried the puff of the Spirit of Elohim so He was also WHEAT, He was eternal, He was the first wheat loaf with the leaven (puff) of the Holy Spirit of Elohim. Because just as Elohim had puffed the puff of life into the first Adam, so the second Adam came to us in His eternal (puff of life) form as well.
That barley or human body of Yeshua was not destroyed it was raised to life. Later His corruptible body (barley) was changed in a moment to an incorruptible body (wheat), just as the scripture says, that is how we know these things to be true:
1 Cor 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, ***but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,*** at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
The dead will be raised in their incorruptible bodies. Those in human (barley) bodies will BE CHANGED! Just as happened with our beloved Messiah.
The barley in Egypt was smitten, it was knocked to the earth, but the plant was not destroyed. It represents what the Messiah was coming to do.
The word smitten in the Strong’s Concordance says this word means:
H5221
to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill
(Niphal) to be stricken or smitten
(Pual) to be stricken or smitten
(Hiphil)
to smite, strike, beat, scourge, clap, applaud, give a thrust
to smite, kill, slay (man or beast)
to smite, attack, attack and destroy, conquer, subjugate, ravage
to smite, chastise, send judgment upon, punish, destroy
(Hophal) to be smitten
to receive a blow
to be wounded
to be beaten
to be (fatally) smitten, be killed, be slain
to be attacked and captured
to be smitten (with disease)
to be blighted (of plants)
Strong’s leaves room for the barley to have been destroyed. I strongly disagree with James Strong here and in a few other places in his concordance.
Here is what the Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew says:
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Disable; strike blow.
The usage in Exodus 9:30 is a prime root meaning exactly the definition as given.
From this root the following words are formed: 1) striking 2) suffering 3) disabling 4) crippled 5) excluding
No destruction is mentioned.Updated Mar 8, 2018, 8:06 PM