Understanding the Bible

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Understanding the Bible
Land of the Bible Agriculture and Rainfall
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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead
Joseph like a flock! (Psalms 801a ESV) He will
tend his flock like a shepherd he will gather
the lambs in his arms he will carry them in his
bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
(Isaiah 4011 ESV) The LORD is my shepherd I
shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures he leadeth me beside the still
waters. (?)
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"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not
enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by
another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of
the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The
sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep
by name and leads them out. When he has brought
out all his own, he goes before them, and the
sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A
stranger they will not follow, but they will flee
from him, for they do not know the voice of
strangers." This figure of speech Jesus used
with them, but they did not understand what he
was saying to them. So Jesus again said to
them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the
door of the sheep. All who came before me are
thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen
to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me,
he will be saved and will go in and out and find
pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill
and destroy. I came that they may have life and
have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The
good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who
does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and
leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches
them and scatters them. He flees because he is a
hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own
know me, just as the Father knows me and I know
the Father and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And I have other sheep that are not of this
fold. I must bring them also, and they will
listen to my voice. So there will be one flock,
one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves
me, because I lay down my life that I may take it
up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it
down of my own accord. I have authority to lay
it down, and I have authority to take it up
again. This charge I have received from my
Father." (John 101-18 ESV) So he told them
this parable "What man of you, having a hundred
sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave
the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after
the one that is lost, until he finds it? And
when he has found it, he lays it on his
shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he
calls together his friends and his neighbours,
saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have
found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell
you, there will be more joy in heaven over one
sinner who repents than over ninety-nine
righteous persons who need no repentance. (Luke
153-7 ESV)
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• the LORD your God will bless the fruit of
  your ground, your grain and your wine and your
  oil in the land that he swore to your fathers
  to give you. (Deuteronomy 713 ESV)
• and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make
  his face shine and bread to strengthen man's
  heart. (Psalms 10415 ESV)
• The LORD answered and said to his people,
  "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and
  oil, and you will be satisfied (Joel 219a ESV)
  
• And she did not know that it was I who gave her
  the grain, the wine, and the oil, (Hosea 28a
  ESV)
• It shall come to pass in the latter days that
  they shall sit every man under his vine and under
  his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid,
  (Micah 44 ESV)

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For the Father makes his sun rise on the evil
and on the good, and sends rain on the just and
on the unjust. (?) Like snow in summer or rain
in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool.
(Proverbs 261 ESV) Now therefore stand still
and see this great thing that the LORD will do
before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest today?
I will call upon the LORD, that he may send
thunder and rain. And you shall know and see
that your wickedness is great, which you have
done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for
yourselves a king." So Samuel called upon the
LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that
day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD
and Samuel. (1 Samuel 1216-18 ESV) Therefore
they shall be like the morning mist or like the
dew that goes early away, (Hosea133a ESV)
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And the heavens over your head shall be bronze,
and the earth under you shall be iron.
(Deuteronomy 2823 ESV) And everyone who hears
these words of mine and does not do them will be
like a foolish man who built his house on the
sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat against that house,
and it fell, and great was the fall of it."
(Matthew 726, 27 ESV) Jesus said to him, "No
one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back
is fit for the kingdom of God." (Luke 962
ESV)
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Palestinians still use old methods of reaping.
A woman uses a sickle to gather
crops.
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Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
(Joel 313 ESV) Do you not say, 'There are yet
four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I
tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the
fields are white for harvest. (John 435
ESV) The wicked are not so, but are like chaff
that the wind drives away. (Psalms 14
ESV) Christs winnowing fork is in his hand,
to clear his threshing floor and to gather the
wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn
with unquenchable fire." (Luke 317 ESV)
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"And if you will indeed obey my commandments that
I command you today, to love the LORD your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul, he will give the rain for your land in
its season, the early rain and the later rain,
that you may gather in your grain and your wine
and your oil. (Deuteronomy 1114 ESV) Be
patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of
the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the
precious fruit of the earth, being patient about
it, until it receives the early and the late
rains. (James 57 ESV) You visit the earth and
water it you greatly enrich it the river of God
is full of water you provide their grain, for so
you have prepared it. You water its furrows
abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it
with showers, and blessing its growth. You crown
the year with your bounty your wagon tracks
overflow with abundance. The pastures of the
wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves
with joy, the meadows clothe themselves with
flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain,
they shout and sing together for joy. (Psalms
659-13 ESV)
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Understanding the Bible
Land of the Bible Agriculture and Rainfall