Crusts and Crumbs: Some Kool and Freaky Things.

Many times we skip over words or phrases because we don’t know what is meant and there is no explanation because to those writing, reading or listening; it was commonly understood without a need for explanation.

Here are a few insights into foods of Middle Eastern culture as related to scripture.

In Genesis 25:29-34 we read of Esau giving his birthright for a mess of pottage.

29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

We have here the bargain made between Jacob and Esau about the birthright, which was Esau’s by birth, but Jacob’s by promise. It was for a spiritual privilege; and we see Jacob’s desire of the birth-right and he saw his opportunity when his brother desired what he had.

What exactly is pottage?

nā·zîḏ  נָזִ֑יד

Genesis 25:29
HEB: וַיָּ֥זֶד יַעֲקֹ֖ב נָזִ֑יד וַיָּבֹ֥א עֵשָׂ֛ו
NAS: When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came
KJV: And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came
INT: had cooked Jacob stew came Esau

Pottage is a very common dish in the Middle East and the people call it

kool!

It is much like gruel or hummus and is made of various kinds of grains, which have been beaten in a paste. The red pottage is made of kurakan and other grains, and it was for this that Esau sold his birthright!

Other common uses of the term were for example: When land was sold for an insignificant sum, other people would comment, the man sold his land for pottage. If parents gave their daughter in marriage to man of lower standing in the community people may say, they have given her for pottage. If an intelligent individual acted in a manner less than what was expected of him, it may be said of him: He has fallen into the pottage-pot.


Wheat and Tares

“While Men Slept, the Enemy Sowed Tares”

Matthew 13:25.

“Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”

wheat  וְחִטִּ֥ים

chittah: wheat

Strong’s Hebrew: 2406.

חִטִּים (chittah) — wheat

Original Word: חִטָּה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: chittah
Phonetic Spelling: (khit-taw’)
Definition: wheat

Strong’s Hebrew: 2591. חִנְטִין (chinta’) — wheat

Original Word: חִנְטָא
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: chinta’
Phonetic Spelling: (khint-taw’)
Definition: wheat

2 Samuel 17:28
HEB: וּכְלִ֣י יוֹצֵ֔ר וְחִטִּ֥ים וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְקֶ֣מַח
NAS: basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour,
KJV: vessels, and wheat, and barley,
INT: pottery and earthen wheat barley flour

The tare or darnel grows plentifully all over the Middle East, and is a huge problem to farmers. The grain is small and is lies along the upper part of the stalk, which stands perfectly erect.

The taste of the grain is bitter and if mixed with wheat in bread causes dizziness, and often acts as a violent emetic.

An emetic is a medicine or potion that makes you vomit, which you might be given if you’ve taken poison or some other harmful substance.

It is a poison and must be carefully winnowed and picked out of the wheat or the flour is not fit for food. The tares can hardly be distinguished from the wheat until the heads appear at harvest time, — even the farmer cannot tell them apart.

As harvest approaches the wheat grows heavy and bends over more and more, but the tares or darnel are so light-headed they stand very straight. This is the opposite of wheat which bows over gracefully, indicative of the humility of the believer in the presence of the Lord; whereas the tares stand up with heads held high in a posture of pride and arrogance. Tares are bitter and cause dizziness and are poisonous so this is a clear picture showing the traits of those who are not true believers.

Greek 2215. zizanion — zizanium (a kind of darnel resembling wheat)
zizanium (a kind of darnel resembling wheat). Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: zizanion Phonetic Spelling: (dziz-an’-ee-on) Short Definition

Darnel (9 Occurrences)
(n.) Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel),
the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Darnel

At harvest time the farmer cuts the heads off the tares and puts them in a pile until he has harvested the wheat; then the tares are burned. Notice the order, the tares are gathered first!


Bread lechem לֶ֣חֶם

Strongs# 3899

lechem: bread, food

Original Word: לֶחֶם
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: lechem
Phonetic Spelling: (lekh’-em)
Definition: bread, food

John 6:35 I am the bread of life

.lechem ha-chayim לֶחֶם הַחַיִּים the Bread of Life

Messiah often referred to Himself as the Bread of Life and these words were full of meaning to the crowds who were listening to Him.

In those days, bread was the staple of their diet being their main food. Back then it was not unusual for someone to stop and pick up a bit of bread that had fallen in the road, they would touch their forehead with it as a token of respect, and carefully place it in a small crack of a wall or a nearby rock, so that it would not be trodden on by other feet walking by. Local bread is normally a round, flat cake, about a quarter of an inch to an inch thick.

Leavened bread wasn’t common among country folk. Women cook the fresh bread for each meal and the oven is often just a small, slightly convex sheet of iron; placed on three stones with a fire underneath.

A very thin, large piece of unleavened dough is placed on the oven and when it’s cooked, it is similar to a huge pancake or tortilla.

Sarah baked her bread on hot stones on the hearth in her tent, having built a fire in a hole in the floor of her tent and filled the hole with small stones, then the bread was placed on the hot pebbles.


What is a Parched Pulse?

In Hebrew the word for parched is

קָלִי qali

qâlîy kaw-lee

or קָלִיא qâlîy

from H7033   קָלָה

roasted ears of grain:—parched corn

2Samuel 17:28

The word pulse is found in Daniel 1:12, 16.

haz·zê·rō·‘îm

Daniel 1:12 
HEB: לָ֜נוּ מִן־ הַזֵּרֹעִ֛ים וְנֹאכְלָ֖ה וּמַ֥יִם

KJV: and let them give us pulse to eat,

This is found in abundance in the Middle east and is very popular. Pulse looks something like very large peas and when the whole plant has been roasted, it’s sold in small bunches on the street.

Filled with concentrated nutrients, it enables Bedouin travellers to go for a several days’ journey with only a handful of pulse for food.

When King David fled from Absalom to Mahanaim, the people gave him as a present,

 

“parched corn, beans, lentils, and parched pulse”

2 Samuel 17:28.

2 Samuel 17:28
HEB: וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְקֶ֣מַח וְקָלִ֑י וּפ֥וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֖ים
NAS: flour, parched [grain], beans,
KJV: and flour, and parched [corn], and beans,
INT: barley flour parched beans lentils

7039 qali: parched (grain)

Original Word: קָלִי
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qali
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-lee’)
Definition: parched (grain)

Word Origin
from qalah
Definition
parched (grain)
NASB Translation
parched (2), roasted grain (4).

Daniel 1:12 says, “Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”.

הַזֵּרֹעִ֛ים pulses hazzeroim

Daniel 1:12
HEB: לָ֜נוּ מִן־ הַזֵּרֹעִ֛ים וְנֹאכְלָ֖ה וּמַ֥יִם
NAS: some vegetables to eat
KJV: and let them give us pulse to eat,

 Ruth gleaning for parching?

“Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Ruth 2:5.

This could easily be seen even today by the country people of Bethlehem.

The greetings are the same between the owner and his servants, “The Lord be with you” is merely the “Allah m’akum,” heard every day, and the reply, “The Lord bless thee.”

Some of the workers had a tendency to be rude towards defenseless women, this is why Boaz commanded them to treat Ruth with respect. The reapers came from all parts of the country, and largely from the lower class and because they were far from home they threw off all restraint and often behaved badly.

The meals too, are very much the same today; the dipping of the morsel in vinegar, and the parched corn. This parched corn is not like corn or maize in the west, it is more like wheat or barley. They pluck a small bunch with the stalks attached, and tie them into small bundles, the corn heads are held in a blazing fire until the chaff is burned away. After roasting, the kernels are rubbed out in the hand and eaten. This was a very popular food and the gathering of this corn for parching was never considered stealing.

Parched corn is often referred to in scripture. It was not unusual to see people pluck off some corn, rub the heads in their hands, and eat the grains unroasted, as they passed by the wheat fields, just as the apostles did.

Ruth 2:14;

קָלִיא. qali

parched (grain)

Original Word: קָלִי
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qali
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-lee’)
Definition: parched (grain)

Ruth 2:14
HEB: וַיִּצְבָּט־ לָ֣הּ קָלִ֔י וַתֹּ֥אכַל וַתִּשְׂבַּ֖ע
NAS: and he served her roasted grain, and she ate
KJV: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat,

2 Samuel 17:28
HEB: וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְקֶ֣מַח וְקָלִ֑י וּפ֥וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֖ים
NAS: flour, parched [grain], beans,
KJV: and flour, and parched [corn], and beans,
INT: barley flour parched beans lentils

7039 qali: parched (grain)

Original Word: קָלִי
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qali
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-lee’)
Definition: parched (grain)

Leviticus 23:14
HEB: וְלֶחֶם֩ וְקָלִ֨י וְכַרְמֶ֜ל לֹ֣א
NAS: nor roasted grain nor
KJV: neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears,
INT: bread roasted new neither

lentils וַעֲדָשִׁ֖ים

2 Samuel 17:28
HEB: וְקָלִ֑י וּפ֥וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֖ים וְקָלִֽי׃
NAS: [grain], beans, lentils, parched
KJV: [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and parched
INT: parched beans lentils parched

5742 adashah: a lentil

Original Word: עָדָשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: adashah
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-dawsh’)
Definition: a lentil

In the summer the owners often sleep on threshing floors, just as Boaz was doing when Ruth came to him. It was understood that a woman should not sleep on these floors, and to do so would give the same bad impression which Boaz was concerned about, yet it was not unusual for the whole family to camp on the threshing-floor to protect the crop until the harvest was over.

Boaz knew Ruths character and that she was guided in her actions by her mother-in-law, who taught her that she had a right to Boaz for her husband, and that the law of God said she could not marry anyone else. Boaz says to Ruth,

“When thou art athirst, go unto the vessels and drink, .. . At meal time . . . eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar . . . and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat.”

A common sight in Israel is that water is always available in large jars. Local people are mostly satisfied with bread, a few olives or an onion. At harvest time they eat a better meal. This consisted of tomatoes, cut up with oil to dip and moisten their bread morsel in, or leban, which is a sour, clabbered milk.

Clabber is a type of soured milk. It is produced by allowing unpasteurized milk to turn sour (ferment) at a specific humidity and temperature. Over time, the milk thickens or curdles into a yogurt -like consistency with a strong, sour flavor. We would call it kefir or yogurt.

Folks sit on the ground around a common bowl and dip in. During barley harvest the wheat is still in the milk, and

freaky”

(meaning rubbed wheat),

is made extensively.

This freaky

is the parched corn of the scriptures, and in Hebrew:

qali  קָלִיא Strongs # 7039

The green wheat is cut and mixed with a pile of dry barley straw, which when set on fire, is hot enough to roast the green wheat. The ears of wheat are then rubbed together in their hands to winnow out the dross.

Even today some reapers still make parched corn a part of their meal. It has for centuries been a very common sight to see travelers stopping along the road, to cut a handful of wheat from someone’s field, and making a little parched corn for a meal, or even just rubbing out the green ears in the hand to eat the soft kernels.

Deuteronomy 23:25: “When thou comest to the standing corn of thy neighbor, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand, but thou mayest not move a sickle in thy neighbor’s standing corn.”

“Messiah went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.”

It was a common practice and not a crime; the Pharisees were simply finding something to complain about His disciples.


Olive

2132 zayith: olive tree, olive

Original Word: זַיִת
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: zayith
Phonetic Spelling: (zay’-yith)
Definition: olive tree, olive

Olives

זיתים

“They Shall Still Bring Forth Fruit in Old Age;

They Shall Be Fat and Flourishing”

Psalm 92:14.

The olive tree, mentioned some 40 times in the Old Testament, is one of the very first trees named in the Bible.

An olive leaf was brought to Noah’s ark in Genesis 8:11.

The olive is the most common cultivated tree in Israel, producing abundant fruit and oil. One tree often gives from 10 to 15 gallons of oil.

Olives and bread constitute a large part of the food and Olive oil was and is today used very much for lighting. In the tabernacle service, besides being used for light, it was also one of the ingredients of the “Holy anointing oil” as noted in Exodus 25:6; 30:24.

shemen: fat, oil

Original Word: שֶׁמֶן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: shemen
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh’-men)
Definition: fat, oil

Exodus 27:20
HEB: וְיִקְח֨וּ אֵלֶ֜יךָ שֶׁ֣מֶן זַ֥יִת זָ֛ךְ
NAS: you clear oil of beaten
KJV: thee pure oil olive
INT: bring about oil olives clear

Olive oil was used in treating wounds, Luke 10:34. It was used for the head, Psalm 23:5, as an act of courtesy in Luke 7:46; as well as to anoint priests, kings, and prophets for service.

Leviticus 8:12; I Samuel 16:13; I Kings 19:16.

Many references in Leviticus show how much use was made of oil in connection with offerings.

Leviticus 8:2
HEB: הַבְּגָדִ֔ים וְאֵ֖ת שֶׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָ֑ה וְאֵ֣ת ׀
NAS: and the anointing oil and the bull
KJV: and the anointing oil, and a bullock
INT: for and the garments oil and the anointing and the bull

The olive tree has small white flowers in May, Job 15:33..

The fruit is gathered by beating Deuteronomy 24:20.

Or shaking the tree Isaiah 17:6.

An olive tree grows slowly, very often lives to a very, very great age, and bears fruit till the last, even when the trunk is nothing but a shell. Some of the olive trees in Gethsemane are believed to be approx.. 2000 years old.

“The righteous shall still bring forth fruit in old age.”


Hyssop  בְאֵז֣וֹב  zufa

Psalm 51:7

ezob: hyssop

Original Word: אֵזוֹב
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: ezob
Phonetic Spelling: (ay-zobe’)
Definition: hyssop

Purge me with hyssop

(with zufa as in the original)

and I shall be clean wash me  And I shall be whiter than snow.

Zufa: Aromatic herbs and spices contain essential oils and are recognized by their considerable antimicrobial activity. One of the natural mouthwashes in traditional Iranian medicine is Zufa.

Zufa or Hyssop is a famous medicinal herb that is also a member of the mint plantfamily. It is closely related to plants like rosemary.Its smell is very pleasant, and taste is spicy with astringency and a bitter end [3]. About its habitat,Zoufa has grown in ancient Rome [5], Jerusalem and Cairo and Iran

Hyssop is used as a spice and also for its medicinal oil. But to the prophets it represented meekness and modesty.

They contrasted the hyssop with the cedars of Lebanon, the symbol of exaltation and pride. 2Kings 14:9

Hyssop is a very effectual purge for internal cleansing and zufa is also a potent bleach for external cleansing.

So now when we read the Psalm, Purge me with Hyssop and I shall be clean; wash me with zufa and I shall be whiter then snow; we will have a clearer picture that

we are to be cleansed both inside and out.

The Blood of the sacrificial lamb was applied to the doorposts and the lintel with Hyssop before the Passover.

Spiritually let us apply the Blood of Messiah with hyssop/ zufa.

Now we know

what is kool

and freaky!

Everything in the Word of God has a deeper meaning than just surface reading and we are encouraged to dig deeper for that treasure, those pearls of great price.

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם‎,

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Peace to friends and family.

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

Not sure ..you can be…

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,

SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.

Fishers and Hunters

Jeremiah 16:16-17

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.”

 I will send for many fishers . . .

The words refer to the threat, not to the promise.

The fishers,

as in Amos 4:2Habakkuk 1:15,

are the invading nations, surrounding Judah and Jerusalem

as with a drag-net, and allowing none to escape.

לְדַוָּגִ֥ים

דַּיָּג, dayyāg 

a fisherman

Biblical Pronunciation: da-YAWɡ

Transliteration: dayyāg

hunters

צַיָּדִ֔ים

צַיָּד,

ṣayyād

A huntsman

Biblical Pronunciation: tsa-YAWD

Transliteration: ṣayyād

Hunters – sayyadim

צַיָּדִ֔ים

is another aspect of the same thought so far as can be traced, it points to the distinction between them, “to the work of the irregular skirmisher as the former image did to that of the main body of the army: men might take refuge, as hunted beasts might do, in the caves of the rocks, but they should be driven forth even from these.”

It is common with the sacred writers to represent

enemies and oppressors

under the metaphors of 

fishers and hunters, 

because they use all the methods of

open force and

secret stratagem

to make men their prey.

The scattering of the people is to be like that of

hunted animals,

of which but few escape.

The ancient method of hunting being to enclose a large space with beaters and nets, and so drive everything within it to some place where it was destroyed.

The destruction of the whole male population was one of the horrible customs of ancient warfare, and

in Herodotus

the process is called 

sweeping the country with a

drag-net.

(and allowing none to escape)

The same authority tells us that this method could only be effectually carried out on an island.

Literally, understood, the fishers are the main armies who, in the towns and fortresses, capture the people in crowds as in a net, while the hunters are the light-armed troops, who pursue the fugitives over the whole country, and drive them out of their hiding places as hunters track out their game.

The application of the words either,

to the gathering of the people after their dispersion

or

to the later work of the preachers of the Gospel

has its source in Jesus/Yeshua’s words recorded in 

Matthew 4:19.

I will make you fishers of men.

It is possible that those words may have been suggested by those of Jeremiah, the same image being used, as in the parable of Matthew 13:47,

to describe the blessing

which had previously presented its darker aspect

of punishment.

Looking a little closer at verse 19.

I will make you fishers of men.

This statement of Jeremiah seems to be very prophetic as regards this new testament scripture.

The fishers/fishermen

catch the fish

in nets

or

with a baited hook.

but neither

the net

nor the hook

kill the fish.

They are caught alive.

This is certainly a picture of the Fathers

grace and mercy

…though we the fish

are dead spiritually in our sins…

we are caught alive

by a fisherman of the Lord.

Somebody told us about the saving power of God through Yeshua,

and that as Jesus/Yeshua said

you must be born again.

We were fished

by those who were made into

fishers of men themselves.

Then in turn, as like begets like,

we are the fishers, who in turn make fishers.

These fishers catch mens souls but unlike Nimrod

they point the WAY

to salvation

through the blood sacrifice of Yeshua/Jesus,

the Master fisher of men.

This is how we follow Him.

Preaching and teaching that the spiritual kingdom of God is here.

WHY?

Because He brought it with Him.

He said

It is at hand,

meaning: it is here – now.

It is within us because He is within us

and so, we also carry the kingdom with us.

Next Jeremiah prophesies that:

later I shall send for many hunters.

Hunters are different from fishermen

in that whatever prey they pursue they kill.

Hunters lay in wait, they stalk,

they lay traps and set snares;

to disable, maim and kill the focus of their hunt.

Using camouflage to deceive and trick.

Sounds like the adversary, the tactics of the devil.

They have no intention to take them alive but God sends these.

Why?

Because His eyes are upon all our ways and they are not hidden from Him and He will pay back their iniquity and their sin Double because they defiled the land and made gods for themselves.

Chp 17:5 the warning which cannot be separated from the previous verses;

(The chapter distinction should not be a stopping place, it is not so in the original scrolls as there is no punctuation as we know it.)

Verse 5 this is part of why He sends the hunters, those who made flesh their arm and their trust is in man.

Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is the arm of the Lord,

we are to trust in God through Jesus/Yeshua His Messiah

17:7 The one who trusts in the Lord this one is blessed.

The first hunter was Nimrod.

נִמְרוֹד

Phonetic Spelling: nim-rode’

Strong’s Hebrew: 5248. נִמְרוֹד (Nimrod) 

He was a descendant of Cain who was inclined to depend on himself and his own efforts; and became the first to kill in a downward spiral of jealousy, leading to hate and eventually murder.

Nimrod is described in

Genesis 10:8–12 as

the first on earth to be a mighty man.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

Nimrod established a great kingdom that included 

Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

A mighty hunter before the Lord:

It means

against the Lord/ in opposition to..

and he hunted mens souls.

In coming against the Lord, he built the famed tower of babel

which was the reason YeHoVeH came down and confused their languages to stop the progress of their plans.

ציד

Tsayid  hunter venison , hunter , victuals , provision , hunting , catch , food , hunting

Tsayad – hunter.

Other scriptures with hunter:

Ps. 91:3 he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.

Prov. 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Lam. 1:6 ו Vav All her splendor has vanished from Daughter Zion. Her leaders are like stags that find no pasture; they walk away exhausted before the hunter.

There are hunters who hunt for meat for food;

there are those who hunt for sport and

those who hunt for mens souls.

As Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun…

the same is true today; as predatory individuals stalk, hunt, trap and snare others, especially the most vulnerable, for their own ungodly lusts and desires.

There is not much anywhere in the scriptures that supports or applauds hunters.

Along with Nimrod there was another famous hunter, Esau.

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents

His story does not end well either!

But are there for our education and as warnings, to beware of the things of the flesh life that can cause us to fall away from our Heavenly Father; and their inevitable consequences.

Fishers are not as aggressive in their active pursuit of prey and many will return their prize to the waters they came from. Releasing them if they are not fishing for food to sustain self and family.

Mentioned in

Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Hooks catch ones,

nets catch many

at one casting.

The analogy that Jesus/Yeshua uses is for both as in:

leave the 99 and seek the ONE. 

Matthew 18:12 & Luke 15:4

Also the 2 instances of the

casting of the net

and

catching the fish.

One was at the start of His ministry

when calling the disciples to become

fishers of men

and the

2nd was after His resurrection.

Both times the nets were filled to over capacity.

The First Disciples

Luke 5:4-7
3Jesus got into the boat belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore. And sitting down, He taught the people from the boat. 4 WhenJesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” 5“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”…

Jesus Appears by the Sea of Tiberias

after His Resurrection

5 So He called out to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” “No,” they answered. 6 He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish. 7Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea.…

Fishers of men were what He called them to become and as they were obedient to His instructions the results were miraculous.

This shows us that as we too are obedient to His instructions we will see Him work miracles through us.

Mark 16:20. “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”

Humanity is flailing around in the oceans of life,

tossed to and fro by winds of doctrine.

Tossed about like a wave “by every wind of doctrine”. It is “doctrines“, in great part, which have broken up unity. By the sleight of men. Their tricks. Cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. Craft and cunning, employed by teachers of false doctrine in order to deceive. Ephesians 4:14

 

The seas of the worlds systems have them caught in tides of both confusion and controlled directions.

We must be ready to fish with both hooks and nets,

to haul in the harvest of souls

before the predators hunting them get to them first.

 

The call of God to each of His children never changes, it is to make disciples of all nations. Being a fisher of those disciples begins with casting the net in faith and obedience

and baiting the hook

with the bread of life

of which also the crumbs

are sufficient to bring deliverance

and salvation…

the sweet smelling savor to those perishing. 

The one whose

hope is in the Lord…

this one is like the tree planted by the waters.

Yeshua/Jesus the Tree of Life and

the life giving water source.

He is the fountain of living waters…

fish live in water;

not on the mountains, hills, or holes in the rocks.

We are fish and the symbol was used back then and still is today.

WE are the fish thriving in the living waters.

Pulled from the sea of humanity and from the fast flowing rivers of the worlds ways… we are not of those who hide ourselves in the mountains and in the holes of the rocks.

We are not the hunters, the predators.

We are the fish

and the

fishers of men.

We need to continually remind ourselves that all Jesus/Yeshua quoted from, was the Torah and Prophets and Writings. The New Testament writings did not exist at that time, nor in the apostles days. Yes, we need to study what we call the Old Testament or none of the New makes sense.

Yeshua/Jesus’ message echoed the call of the prophets

to repent and turn to the lord.

We swim upstream against the flowing tide

of iniquity, sin and ungodliness;

which carries the multitudes

towards an eternity

without our Heavenly Fathers presence.

We are to reach out

snatching them from the fires of judgment.

Jude 1:23

Today is the day of salvation,

together let’s cast that net

lets be the fisher we were called to be

and that fisherman/disciple He promised to make us into.

2 Timothy 4:2 KJV: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

Acts 1:6 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Speak that word in season,

give that tract.

Cast the net

and be part of

gathering His harvest.

May His true Shalom/Peace

rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa Mish-pa-KHa

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?

YOU CAN BE..

Say the following and mean it from your heart…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He came in the flesh and He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life.

Because your word is truth, I say that I am now forgiven and born again in my spirit and by faith I am washed clean with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.