Parable Of The Farmer

Hi! and happy good Thursday to all of us, GUYS.  Our "food for the soul" today:

THE GOOD NEWS (01 December 2016)

"Listen to my words, pay attention and understand what I say.

Does the plowman do nothing but plow, loosen the earth, pulverize the clods with a harrow?

After leveling the soil, does he not begin to sow caraway and scatter cumin, wheat and barley and put spelt as the border?  For his GOD instructs him on what to do, HE gives him guidance and discretion, too.

For caraway is not threshed nor cumin crushed, but caraway is beaten with a stick and cumin with a rod.

Is the wheat milled on the threshing floor?  Is it threshed without end?  They put in movement chariot and horses but do not grind it.

All comes from YAHWEH SABAOTH whose advice is excellent, whose wisdom is wonderful." - Isaiah 28:23-29 

(Several oracles pronounced during the crisis of 701. 

It is difficult for us to understand this parable of the farmer unless we remember that all ancient peoples considered that GOD, or the gods, taught them the secrets of agriculture.  Isaiah says: see how YAHWEH has taught the secrets of the earth, to plant at the right time so that the harvest will follow in due time.  Know then that YAHWEH 's word is the sure means of sowing in history and guiding politics in such a way that there may be fruit to harvest at a given time.) 

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