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Vangie:
Wow Joyce, Joe and Beloved--thanks for the wonderful symbolic studies.  Joyce, that wasn't long at all-very, very interesting thread here.  Please keep going with this one.  It's amazing to see these OT types unfold; I totally get what you are explaining--thank you...I'm a sponge soaking all this in, and I'm sure there are lots of others here like me, starting to grasp these wonderful analogies and truths being brought to light.

Love in Christ,
Vangie

EKnight:
Wow, I am totally blinded here.  I don't get any of this.

Eileen

joyful1:

:D Hi Vangie-- thanks for the encouragement...just so that we are on the same page though...I'm not trying to teach anything here, I'm not even sure if what I am "seeing" is completely in sinc with the rest of scripture--that's why I'm asking if anyone else can help me out with this...it just started making a picture for me of the elect and I wondered if anyone else has been looking at it from the same angle?

:D Hi Eileen!
Just like the elect, Gideon's army was:
-- few
-- chosen by God
-- used to save the rest of the camp

Gideon's army was represented in a dream as a loaf of barley bread. My question to you and everyone else is: can the barley bread be symbolic of God's elect? Hope this helps?
Joyce :)

joyful1:
Hi guys! Hoping that you will correct me if I start to wander off course here....what do you see in this?

Firstfruits marks the beginning of the cereal grain harvests in Israel. Of the crops sown in winter, barley is the first grain to ripen. For the Feast of Firstfruits, a sheaf  (a bundle of stalks tied together) of barley is harvested and brought to the Temple as a thanksgiving offering to the Lord. It represents the entire barley harvest and serves as a pledge that the rest of the harvest will be brought in.

Christ was crucified on Passover 14th day of Nisan;
He was in the tomb on Unleavened Bread 15th day of Nisan
He was resurrected on Firstfruits the 16th day of Nisan...

So Christ is easily identified as the firstfruits

I Cor. 15:20-22
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man [Adam], the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man [Jesus]. For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Can the barley flour, ground from the firstfruits (Barley) symbolize the elect?
In the firstfruits ritual, after the wave sheaf of barley (Christ) is presented, the barley is MILLED INTO FLOUR which is offered the very next DAY mixed with a small amount of olive oil. In other words:

Can the elect be identified with the barley harvest, the firstfruits WITH Christ?

Gal 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
 
Also note: barley flour can also be made into bread. But it will be unleavened bread, because barley bread resists leavening! Apparently, you have to MIX barley flour with WHEAT flour to obtain a decent loaf of bread. The wheat can then be leavened easily with yeast and produce the nicely puffed up product we all enjoy so much. Pure barley bread is tough, hard, flat, unleavened, but resists spoilage and can be sold in the open markets for a longer period of time, placed in the backpack of the marching soldier, etc.
Joyce :)

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