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