Yes, Vis, I can see that too.
HF, I think that maybe we can bring it down to two as there are two firstfruits. Most only think of the firstfruits of passover time, the barley harvest, but there is also a firstfruit offering at Shavuot and this is the wheat harvest. This has something that Passover/firstfruits of Barley, didn't , leaven.
The first firstfruits is unleavened===== Yeshua
The second firstfruits has two loaves of leavened bread ===the people redeemed
Then Sukkot is the final harvest of everything else.
Now in Revelation we read about the angel being told to not harm the oil or the wine.
The Oil would be from the Olives and the wine from the grapes. Calling it oil and wine instead of Olives and Grapes shows that they have already been harvested and turned into Olive Oil and Wine.
In Deut 11 it says
In Revelation 6:6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say , Come and see . And I beheld , and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say , A measure of
wheat for a penny, and three measures of
barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the
oil and the
wine.
All these things you find together, mostly the wheat or sometimes translated as corn, with the oil and wine. The firstfruits of all these were brought to the temple. They were used for sacrifices.
The 'hurt' translated here means to damage.
Now the wheat and barley are very expensive so are in limited quantities, but there is oil and wine. Is this sometime between Sukkot and Shavuot?
Thank you so much for all of this, of course, I have been thinking of it all day.
When we start talking in terms of Revelation and wheat, and barley, so much information is relayed from just the thought of them, I'm sure you probably know what I mean.
I mean that I have so much in my mind about these things that I'm always afraid that I'm missing a view because of existing views.
When I think of the 3 main festivals and even all the 7, I think of one specific day that all of them happen together.
But we are told that at the end of the age, the wheat harvest will take place and God's wheat{us} will be gathered in his barn while the tares burn.
Then I have in my head the 3 parables.
The Sower-the barley harvest of Passover.
The wheat and tares-The wheat harvest of Pentecost.
The mustard seed- The covering of Sukkot.
I think of the barley harvest being the first harvest and see how few the barley are in a certain day in Revelation, and I see the wheat and think of Pentecost and the spirit given and the spirit being sent amongst gentiles.
In my mind, I see the Passover-Pentecost and Tabernacles as one, like an instruction to my Body, my soul, and my spirit.
But also I see 3 stages that a person walks through as he walks from the outer court, and then into the Holy place, and then to the Holy of Holies.
I could see the 3 parables like this.
That Jesus was sown into the ground on the barley harvest, and his spirit was given on the wheat harvest, but it had an evil seed mixed within it.
And I see the Mustard seed as a man who had lived his life and then to become a covering for everyone.
Then I see the parable of the Leaven as the explanation of the first 3 parables given.
Being that I see everything in 3's, I also see the seals, the trumpets and the bowls as One.
The Third seal
Revelation 6:5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, '' Come and see.'' And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scaled in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying,'' a quart6 of wheat for a denarius, and 3 quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.{something happened.}
The Third Trumpet
Revelation 8:10 Then the third trumpet sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers{we are rivers} and on the springs of water; and the name of the star is wormwood: and a third of the waters became wormwood., and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter{I believe this speaks of the water within us.}
The third Bowl
Revelation 16:4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.
I see the seals, the trumpets, the bowls as one and they are different views from different aspects.
But speaking of barley, of wheat, oil, wine, rivers, seas, trees, my mind does not go to the actual things themselves, but are symbolic for many things.
