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The Barley Firstfruits, Planted and Hearing – pt 2

In late December 2018, I had a dream in which I was walking along the corridor of a senior school. My mother and an old friend walked towards me and announced excitedly that a girl named Teresa had been promoted to a position of government in this secondary school after a long season of intercession. Then just before waking, I heard the word ‘navajo’.

The name ‘Teresa’ is generally believed to be derived from the Greek ‘therizein’ (to reap, to gather in) and thus takes the definition of “harvester.” So this dream indicates that the harvesters have been approved and raised to a position of government and the intercessors are celebrating. The high or senior school refers to students of the Word, those who have moved beyond the elementary teachings and are pressing toward perfection.

‘Navajo’ is the Spanish adaptation of the Tewa Pueblo word ‘navahu’u’, meaning ‘farm fields in the valley’. Early Spanish chroniclers referred to the Navajo as ‘Apaches de Nabajó’ (‘Apaches who farm in the valley’)

So ‘navajo’ is connected to the bar-ley grain sown in the valley by the hand of God and bearing fruit upwards. It is this barley firstfruits company who are the harvesters who are raised to positions of government at a senior level in the Spirit. In order to function in this position of delegated authority, we have to receive instruction in deep things that we have not known before.

1Co 2:9  according as it has been written, "Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard," nor has it risen up into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those that love Him. 1Co 2:10  But God revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 

In part one of this article, I spoke of the process of growth from the blade to the ear, to the full corn in the ear. The Spirit is emphasizing the ear and hearing the instruction of the Spirit. The barley firstfruits company are bondslaves to the Lamb. It is the ear that is pierced in the making of a bond slave. The instrument used was an awl as the ear lobe was held against the door frame.

Exo 21:6  his master shall bring him to God, and one shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. 

The Hebrew word for awl is ‘martsea’, spelled mem, resh, tsadi, ayin.

Mem depicts the revealed truth of God.

Resh depicts the head, or ruler or the mind of Christ.

Tsadi depicts righteousness and is connected to the Melchizedek order.

Ayin depicts the eye or a fountain.

So the action of the awl is opening the way for the revealed secrets and truth of the mind of Christ to be imparted to the righteous, causing them to see or understand and thereby making them a fountain of wisdom and truth.

Notice also that the one being inducted as a bondslave is ‘brought to the door’, in other words, to Jesus Who is the Door. It is He Who is made unto us wisdom of God. We must open our ear to His words and drink in the wisdom He shares with us. This will equip us to go forth as harvesters, governing and ruling in wisdom as we bring in the harvest for the Kingdom.

Isa 50:4  [The Servant of God says] The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who is taught].

During this time, The Lord will be waking and training us. Some of us have sleeping ears that need to be awakened so that we can hear intelligently and walk out what we have been taught. The words we hear must become flesh in us. Truth must be manifested within our earthen vessels; we cannot survive on head knowledge in the next season.

Isa 42:18  Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see! Isa 42:19  Who is blind but My servant [Israel]? Or deaf like My messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the one who is at peace with Me [who has been admitted to covenant relationship with Me]? Yes, who is blind like the Lord's servant? Isa 42:20  You have seen many things, but you do not observe or apprehend their true meaning. His ears are open, but he hears not! Isa 42:21  It was the Lord's pleasure for His righteousness' sake [in accordance with a steadfast and consistent purpose] to magnify instruction and revelation and glorify them.

In this season before Passover, God will be magnifying or enlarging the truths we need to see, so that we do not miss them. These pieces of revelation are vital puzzle pieces to bring the work of the Spirit in us to completion, in order for us to be ready to be sealed on our foreheads with His name, so that we can be certified as part of the firstfruits offering; part of the 144,000 seen on Mount Zion, that follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Sometimes God will open our ear while we sleep at night. Be prepared to receive important revelation and instruction in the night seasons between now and Passover:

Job 33:15  In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed; Job 33:16  then He opens the ear of men and seals their teaching,

There is another word translated ‘ear’ in KJV which also means ‘to plough or engrave’ in this passage concerning Saul:

1Sa 8:12  And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 

The ploughman engraves or cuts a mark or furrow with definite intention in the surface of the ground. In the same way, God declares that He engraves His word upon our hearts. He does not write haphazardly but in order to convey instruction and revelation truth – much in the same way as the ear of the bondslave is brought to the Door intentionally and very precisely in order to pierce or make an opening in the earlobe.

There is a very interesting verse in Amos concerning the harvesters. It has been preached on in the vein of blessings overtaking the saints but I believe there is a much deeper meaning to this passage;

Amo 9:13  Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt

The word ‘overtake’ is the Hebrew word meaning ‘to come near or bring near; euphemistically to lie with a woman; to cause to come up higher’. So we see that the one who ploughs or engraves causes the reaper/ harvester to come near for the purpose of writing upon the ground of their heart. The word indicates that closeness and intimacy is the atmosphere in which this engraving is carried out. Remember also that in the passage in Matthew where two women are in a field and one is ‘taken’ and one is left, the word ‘taken’ also means ‘to receive near, to associate with oneself’.

I believe this separation and choosing is on the basis of those who have ears to hear. Just as God is the initial and ultimate Engraver upon the heart, so too there will be a company of disciples who have grown to mature manhood and declared ready to take over their Father’s business of engraving upon the hearts of men. They will be sent out to ‘ear the ground’. Their tongues are the pens of ready writers. They are those who have an inner ear full of the nuggets of God’s truth; having reached the ‘full corn in the ear’ stage’ and therefore can be trusted to break bread with the rest of the Body; rightly dividing the Word of Truth. They have listened fully and have become clothed over and fully filled and prepared for the task ahead. They are part of the Melchizedek priesthood who bring forth bread and wine for the sons of Abraham.

 Mat 10:27  What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. 

 Once we as harvesters have clearly heard the voice of God with our inner ear, we are able to re-sound, or repeat what we have heard and the effect on our listeners in the harvest field will be life-changing:

 Joh 5:25  Truly, truly, I say to you that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones hearing will live. 

There is an amazing prophetic type depicted in an occurrence recorded in Matthew round the time of Passover:

Mat 12:1  At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the sabbath day. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the heads of grain and to eat.

Remember Passover is the feast in which the firstfruits barley is harvested as a wave offering. Those who are ‘aviv’, ready and first-ripe; those with ears full of instruction will feed the hungry disciples who are walking through the harvest fields. Note the disciples were fed without uprooting the barley firstfruits. They issued forth nourishment from their appointed place of planting.

Pray for ears to hear; for your inner ear to be fully awakened so that you can receive to the full what is appointed you in this season, whether it be at night in your dreams or in your daily times with the Lord. be one of those in the field whom he brings near for engraving.

Selah