The Seed of Abraham, an Ancient grain of Barley

Dear Children,

I’ve had a picture floating around in my heads for a couple of weeks now, so I want to put it down in words and photos.  I’m going to be showing you the root word of ‘seed’ in Hebrew and how this word applies to mankind and the male species.  This is how I see things living in Israel.  I encourage you to studies these things for yourself and prove them.

Gen 3:15 ” And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”   

Gen 4:24 “And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For  Elohim, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.“

Gen 9:8 ” And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you;”

 Very early on we are given the illustration that a seed often represents offspring or children and by extension mankind.  We are also shown that women have seed and men have seed.  

H2233 זרע, zera is the Hebrew word for seed in Strong’s it says From H2232; seed, figuratively fruit, plant, sowing time, posterity: -X carnally, child, fruitful, seed (-time), sowing-time.  Both Lev 22:13 and 1Sa 1:11 use the word child in place of זרע.

The Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (EDBH) say .ז.ר.ע cast from a distance 1: spreading seed (Gn 1:11) 2: conceiving (Lv 12:2)  3: arm; limb that sets hand in motion (Gn 49:24)  4: the seed of legume (Dn 1.16).  In the third word that was built from our root .ז.ר.ע we can see that the word for arm was formed.  Gen 49.24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms זרועה of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 

Gen 6.6 ” Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Yehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an stretched out arm, and with great judgments. 

Already I am seeing a word picture of the ‘seed’ or the offspring of Yehovah that was to come.  Yes, there was a show of strength of the arm of Yehovah in Egypt when the plagues fell on the land.  And arm is also a show of power, force, ability and might.  But the prophetic shadow picture is the ‘seed’ of the Son of Man who was to come by whom the Father would reconcile and redeem men.

Isa 40.9 “O Zion, that brings good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain, O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your Elohim. 10 Behold Adonai Yehovah will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him, and his work before him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the ranks with his arm, and carry then in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are young.”

John 12.36 “While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.  These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.  37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:  That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, ‘Lord, who hath believed our report?  and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed’”.  

Arm and seed are from the same Hebrew root.

 John 7.42 “Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was born?”

Rom 4.13 “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the law (Gal 4), but through the righteousness of faith.  

Gal 3.16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.  He said not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”   

Heb 2.15 “For verily he took not on him the nature of angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham.”  

Now I’m moving the subject of barley.

 2 Ti 2.8 “Remember the Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.”

Joh 12.24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn (G2848 kernel of a seed) of wheat (G4621 Of uncertain derivation; grain, especially wheat) fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

Previously I thought that this passage was better translated as a ‘grain of barley’, because as we know Yeshua was The Head of the first fruits from the dead (Col 1.18), represented in the Wave Sheaf, which is commanded to be taken from the barley harvest.  However, as I’ve come to understand the scriptures better concerning the Feasts I believe that ‘wheat‘ it the intended term for this passage.  It’s wheat, that is the new lump (1 Cor 5:7-8); that represents being filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2).  The body that was, the old man, represented in the barley has become a new creation (2 Cor 5.17) of wheat with an earnest deposit (Eph 1.14) of the quickening power that raised Messiah from the dead (Rom 8.11).  That earnest we carry within our new creation tells us when we lay aside our Sukkah (2 Pet 2.14) we will take on immortality because the seed of Messiah (now wheat) remains in us (1 Jn 3.9).  It’s a picture of the Bride of Christ.

Wheat is correct because the Messiah would have been saying something that the people were familiar with.  He was referring to the seed of a man, or in this case men who died in FAITH AND OBEDIENCE who will make up part of His Bride.  Hebrews 11 gives us a list of men (and women) that are all written about in the Old Testament who were filled with the Holy Spirit and had the deeper understanding of the Law that only Holy Spirit can lead men into (1 Cor 2.10).  Joh 8.56  “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.”

1 Cor 15. 35 “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.” 1 Cor 15.52 “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.” 

When that earnest that has been deposited in these earthen vessels is presented for redemption, then what was corruptible will become immortal.  HalleluYah!

Nonetheless, the principle of seed dying and yielding fruit after is own kind (Gen 1.11) is at play in John 12.24.  If the Son of Man(kind) is represented in the Feast of the month of the Aviv, then barley is His mankind symbol (seed).  And so it would be the seed that was of Abraham, and the seed that was of David, and the seed that was of Noah, and the seed that was of the first Adam.  A barley seed.  What I am going to show you next are three photos.  I think of them as a teaching example for our generation.  For sure the patriarchs would not have had one of these visual examples to observe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the bottom right is a photo and diagram of human seed; the far left is a photo is of two single seeds or grains of barley.  The top right photo is a random grouping of barley.  The similarities are striking.

I believe we are looking a stunning spiritual symbol for the ‘seed זרע of man(kind)’, the Son of Man, who is Yeshua. The Seed who came through the men: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.  Who came as the strong-arm זרועה of Yehovah, the Son of God, the seed of God, to bring reconciliation to the earth.