Torah Class: Day 45 - Spiritual Truth in the Second Diet: Grains and Lentils

 

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

The Foods Yahweh has Given Mankind to Eat (in Torah) all Reveal Powerful Spiritual Truths...

The second diet was “the plants of the field” – after the Fall

Genesis 3:18-19 

Plants of the Field: Genesis 3:18 explicitly states, "...you will eat the plants of the field".

Labor-Intensive Diet: This is a shift from the fruit of the Garden (Gen 2:16) to a diet gained through toil and farming, as the ground was cursed with thorns and thistles.

Contrasted with Pre-Fall: While the original diet in Genesis 1:29 included fruits and herbs, post-Fall, the sustenance came through painful work.

Nutritional density for a harsher world

Fruit alone is:

• High in sugars and micronutrients
• Lower in long-term caloric density (compared to grains)

Field plants (grains, legumes) provide:

Sustained energy (carbohydrates)

• Storage capability (important!)
• Ability to feed families over time

After the Fall, humanity needed:

• Storable food
• Higher caloric yield per labor unit

The addition of “plants of the field” represents:

A shift from:

Provision → Production

Receiving → Laboring

Garden → Ground

Immediate abundance → Delayed sustenance

Functionally, they provided:

Survival in a cursed environment

Caloric density and storage

Scalability for population growth

A foundation for civilization

Planting – burial / death before life

Threshing – separation – wheat from chaff (godly Character from carnal and the flesh – spiritual circumcision

Grinding – crushing / breaking

Fire – testing / transformation

“in the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread”

Grains – wheat, barley, etc…  Grains represent saved people

Chaff is ungodly characteristics – unrighteousness (chaff is blown away in the wind)

·  Angels holding back the “winds of strife” – but are told to let go at the near End of the World

· The wind “winds are strife, wars, planetary unpleasantness”

·  When the wind is let go – the final chaff blows away.

·  The wheat is not harmed by the wind

·  Matthew 3:12, Luke 3:17 – wheat has chaff – it must be separated…  when Yahshua returns, in divine Judgment, He will use His “fan” (winnowing fork) to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Tares – look like good grain while they are young – but are revealed as time goes on to be worthless (tares are burned)

In the time of the harvest, the wheat bows over and dies (complete submission, worship and surrender to Yahweh) – and the tares stand tall (stiff-necked, unwilling to submit, rebellion).

Lentils – Genesis 25:29-34

·       Abraham has the Covenant connection with Yahweh

·       The Covenant of Abraham is Salvation

·       Abraham’s Covenant is passed on – to his seed

o “to Abraham and his seed (those of his birthright) were the Promises made” Galatians 3:16

Genesis 17:7-9  “And I will establish My Covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an Everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.  And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.  And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep My Covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.” 

Exodus 2:23-25 “And it came to pass… that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God… And God remembered His Covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob...”

1 Chronicles 16:15-17  “Be ye mindful always of His Covenant; the word which He commanded to a thousand generations;  Even of the Covenant which He made with Abraham, and of His oath unto Isaac;  And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an Everlasting Covenant.”