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----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine
Borrowman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:50 AM
Subject: Chritianity, the Passover & Barley
firstfruits Blaine writes: I recently
posted concerning the FARMS announcement in 1984 that barley
was discovered to have been a domesticated crop grown in the Americas prior to
Columbus, and pointed out also that the BoM mentions barley as a Nephite
crop. What is the significance of barley to Mormon
Christians, and other Christians as well?
The first Jewish holiday/Sabbath of
the year, held on 15 Nisan in the early springtime each year, is the
Passover. As near as we can tell, the Saviour was crucufied on Friday, 14
Nisan, the day before this feast was to be eaten. He lay in the tomb over
the Passover Sabbath (15 Nisan), then arose the first day of the week,
Sunday--or the "morrow of the Passover Sabbath." (Lev 23:10-14) This
would have been 16 Nisan, the day the Jews were commanded to offer their wave
offering of a sheaf of newly ripened (green) barley, called the "firstfruits" of
the harvest. Since barley ripens about three
weeks before wheat, it was used in this offering rather than wheat, and
therefore assumed a central role in forming the system of symbolism
inherant in the Law of Moses, which was to "bring us to Christ." It represented the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the firstfruits of the
resurrection. For Lehi and his family to have gone to
the New World without taking barley seeds with them would have been
unthinkable. In the BoM it says Lehi took "seeds of all kinds." We can
now be assured that he had barley seeds with him, along with his
"seeds of all kinds.".
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