A Study On The Vine (Original Work)
Good Morning Friday.......
Father Thank You for this NEW Day. Please grant us TRUTH, WISDOM, DISCERNMENT, UNDERSTANDING, and KNOWLEDGE. Father we ask this so that we will not be conformed to this world, but TRANSFORMED by the renewing of our MINDS. In YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST'S Name. Amen.
A big Thank You to Brother Jeremy Monroe for his research on this devotion. "Iron sharpens iron" and I can't thank Our Father In Heaven Above Enough for giving me a Brother and Friend who sharpens me everyday. God Bless You Brother and Thank You for the Revelation!
- A Study On The Vine
Had an Awesome short, but powerful study yesterday. Had my Brother "shoot" me some info about grape vines after yesterday's devotion and just knew I had to Share. Our Father Never Ceases To Amaze. His Parables In His Word Are So Profound and Have So Much More Than What Is On The Surface. Let's take another look at "The Vine Parable," or rather let's take a look at a literal grape vine and see if we can uncover a little more meaning than what we might have gotten at our first look.
Today, we will take a look at how grape vines are harvested and then a Bible Verse which could possibly point to the exact Teaching Our Father and Yeshua (Jesus) Has Given Us In His Word Through The Beauty and Genius of His Creation. Here we go.
Did you know?:
- The first year grape vines are just to grow. Growing strong on their way to producing fruit.
"It can grow relatively quickly in the first year, developing a thick trunk and side canes that require training along a trellis, fence or wire system." - Shala Munroe
““When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.”
Deuteronomy 24:5
The Vinedresser (Our Father) has training for us on His Fence (Earth/Our Home). He has us (The Branches) grow in The Vine (Yeshua, Jesus Christ) for a year training us in His Ways along His Fence (The earth)! Just like the disciples! Wow!
And could the year old grape branches also point to this:
“And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD.”
Leviticus 23:12
“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year.”
Exodus 12:5
The grape vine is "established" in the second year continuing to grow and might produce some fruit.
"In the second spring, the plant is still getting established, although a few tiny bunches of grapes might appear. These are unlikely to be the lush, full bunches of grapes you want, but some might be edible." - Shala Munroe
This could point to our second year after being "Reborn" in Christ. We may produce some edible fruit, some tiny bunches, but we are not quite mature enough yet to produce lush full branches of grapes. Also, In the second year of growing the married couple goes back to their regular lives after having grown strong and begin to produce fruit outside their marriage or home.
- In the third year the grape vines are now mature, ready to produce fruit and more "shoots" or branches! The new branches grown will not produce fruit yet, but have to grow being watered and cared for.
"Then the third spring arrives, and with it should come a much larger yield of sweet, tasty grapes on the now-mature plant." - Shala Munroe
Think about that. Yeshua (Jesus The Vine) had three years of ministry with his disciples and then, after Pentecost, the branches (disciples) were producing fruit! He even cut off the branch that didn't produce fruit, Judas. It takes 3 years to produce fruit (Yeshua's Ministry), but then we have continuous growth and fruit after Him! So we see a continuous growth with the "new shoots (new believers)" being grown, not yet ready to produce fruit, and the mature branches (disciples) producing fruit, and all after The Vine was growing for 3 years. Amazing! But wait there's more!
Look at This:
““This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come.”
Numbers 19:2
The Red Heifer was to never have had a yoke on it or never have produced in the field. The Red Heifer had to be perfect without blemish (Yeshua, Jesus!!!) and was sacrificed in it's third year! Then in the third year abundant fruit was produced through the apostles and The Spirit of God... Because of The Vine, Our Savior!
- The Vine may produce many shoots, but you only pick the best of them for the next year. Two to the right and two to the left. Out of many only two stay. On the third year Vine you don't remove the shoots, you can leave them on the trellis and from them you grow new shoots. Each year cutting away the branches and keeping the one year old vines for production. This continues in a cycle so you always have new shoots coming in and fruit going out.
““For many are called, but few are chosen.””
Matthew 22:14
The vine produces many shoots, but only the best are picked. And... the shoots that are produced from the third year Vine (Yeshua, Jesus) are kept! The disciples were the new shoots on the third year Vine!
Does this also point to one man and one woman for marriage on The Vine (In Christ)? Many men and women, but only two can be in marriage... one woman, one man.
Does this also point to mature believers with the shoots being able to be used permanently now? Disciples becoming apostles in The Word?
- Finally, most vineyards grow their vines up to 5 or 6 feet tall in the first year. Running a cable/fence (God The Vinedressers Establishment/Earth) 3 foot off the ground and another 6 foot off the ground. Then you allow the shoots to go out each direction on each cable. 4 canes total. Two to the right and two to the left. Stating it a little more clearly for Biblical Application... Two by Two! (see photographed attached for illustration)
“And He called the twelve to Himself, and began to send them out TWO BY TWO, and gave them power over unclean spirits. He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts— but to wear sandals, and not to put on two tunics.”
Mark 6:7-9
“After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them TWO BY TWO before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
Luke 10:1-2
Pretty cool, right? Two by two, just like He sent out the disciples! I have a feeling that those "shoots" Yeshua (Jesus) sent out two by two may have produced just a bit more fruit than the usual first or second year branches. What do you think?
Two by two also brings to mind:
-Two Testaments (New and Old)
-Two Houses (Israel and Judah)
-Two Olive Trees
-Two Appearances -Yeshua Jesus's First and Second Coming
-Two Witnesses
-Two Realms - Heaven and Earth
-Two Lamp Stands
And there are so many more! Today, for sake of time, we won't even get into the Vines Branches being 3 and 6 feet tall and how this points to Creation and the third and sixth day...but wow! Also, the pruning practice, soil use, and ripening are highly prophetic if you care to have a look. If you find something new and exciting, please don't hesitate to share. With this devotion, I can't help but be reminded of these four verses:
“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”
Proverbs 25:2
“Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.””
John 13:7
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Romans 1:20
““But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”
Job 12:7-10
What True Glory and Blessing Our Father has given us, to be able to search out and marvel at the profound lessons, in His Amazing Creation. The lessons, insights, and profoundness seems to be infinite. There is a lesson, story, parable for each and every situation we could possibly face in this life, and as Our Father's Word Tells Us... "it is the honour of kings" to search it out!
May we all study His Word and His Creation so that we may discover His Truth... Always. This we ask Father, in The Name Above All Names Yeshua, Jesus Christ. Amen!
God Bless Everybody and have a Wonderful God-Blessed Day!
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