• Welcome to Christianity Haven, thank you for visiting! If you have not already, we invite you to create an account and join in on the many discussions we have! 

    • Please be aware that when registering you must not register while using a VPN. Any registrations made using a VPN will be rejected.
    • Additionally, registration emails are not being sent out which is an issue that is being worked on. Your registration may go into an approval queue for admin approval. We work to send manual emails to the email on file, so please ensure the email you use is one you can readily access! 

Search results

  1. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    Since Yeshua gave His illustrations in John 4:35–38 at the time the fields were already white for harvest, He strongly implies that no one was in the fields doing any reaping. If all the fields were then ripe for harvest, this is a powerful suggestion that none of the fields were being harvested...
  2. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    Here is another clue. Yeshua said something that only makes sense in a Sabbatical year. John 4:37 And herein is this saying true, ‘One soweth and another reapeth.’ I send you to reap that which ye bestowed no labor. During Sabbatical Years no one could labor on the land. No sowing, plowing...
  3. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    There is also a second reason why they could be standing in a harvest field white [ripe] and no harvesters. The answer is simple if one remembers the agricultural legislation that Moses imposed on Jews and Samaritans living in the Holy land. There were agricultural rules that both groups...
  4. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    I do not think that Yeshua’s statement was 8 or 9 months after John’s first Passover because in verse 45 (given shortly after He returned to Galilee) his Galilean acquaintances recalled the signs He had recently accomplished at John’s first Passover. These were Galileans who had gone to the...
  5. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    Of course, we can just think that Yeshua was not spring boarding off what was happening around them in regards to the actual harvest times. In fact, it can be stated that Yeshua was simply stating a well-known proverb about some four month interval of time from sowing to harvest, and that no...
  6. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    Since Yeshua was speaking within a context of sowing and reaping, we can take a look at the two harvests each year. There is a spring harvest of barley and winter wheat and the fall harvest of all vegetables, fruit, and all grains including wheat. Farmers reaped the spring harvest between...
  7. visionary

    Four months til harvest...

    At the end of the chapter 3 of John’s Gospel Yeshua left Jerusalem after the first Passover. He started on His journey toward Galilee (John 4:3). His route necessitated traveling through Samaria. Upon His arrival at Jacob’s well, being weary from his journey, Yeshua talked to a Samaritan woman...
  8. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    The first year cannot refer to Yeshua's age as we know that He was baptized of John and began His ministry when he "began to be about thirty years of age" (Luke 3:23). All Jews who are interested in getting into the ministry, do not start until they are 30 years old. Yeshua was a lamb of the...
  9. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Day of Sabbaths [Feast of Weeks; Pentecost,] and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book...
  10. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Taking a look at from the prospective of how long and how far Yeshua traveled, it looks both short in time and short in distance. Examples - Bethsaida: 3.5 miles NE (Mk 6:45, Mk 8:22) - Gennesaret: 2-5 miles SW (Mk 6:53) - Dalmanutha: 5 miles SW (Mk 8:10)
  11. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Exod 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. Notice that...
  12. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Luke explicitly mentions 110 separate days, and Matthew explicitly mentions 100. This does not count all the days in periods that are referred to as “several days” or “after some time,” etc.
  13. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Regarding your statement.... "The Gospel according to saint John covers the years of the Lord Jesus Christ's ministry before saint John the Baptist was arrested." Feeding the 5000 maybe a key that helps tie this all together. This is the one story that is in all of the gospels and it is...
  14. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Yep.. just like he said.. one year.."the three evangelists recorded only the deeds done by the Saviour for one year"
  15. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Sanders, E. P. The historical figure of Jesus. Penguin, 1993. p. 13 Introduction. Funk, Robert W., Roy W. Hoover, and the Jesus Seminar. The five gospels. HarperSanFrancisco. 1993.
  16. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    "For it is evident that the three [synoptic] evangelists recorded only the deeds done by the Saviour for one year after the imprisonment of John the Baptist" Eusebius of Cesarea, 'History of the Church' (published c.316), III, 24, 8:
  17. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    The early church fathers who believed in the one year ministry of Yeshua.... Clement's, Tertullian, Lactantius, Filastrius, Gaudentius, Evagrius, Orosius and Ephraem.
  18. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    Yeshua goes to Jerusalem from Galilee for Passover in John 2. Yeshua leaves Jerusalem for Galilee in John 4. Yeshua returns to Jerusalem for 'a feast of the Jews' in John 5. Yshua leaves Jerusalem for Galilee in John 6. Another Passover is mentioned in John 6 which Yeshua does not attend...
  19. visionary

    Acceptable year of the Lord

    In Luke's account Yeshua proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luke 4:18-19) I believe it is in reference to the year of Jubilee when all sins are forgiven and all debts are remitted and all slaves are set free (Lev.25:39-54). Yeshua said that day (day of Jubilee) were fullfilled in their...
  20. visionary

    Jehovah is our God, Jehovah alone.

    The very first of the Ten Commandments fits with the Shema, saying that Yahweh alone is to be our God. The First Commandment is: “I am Yahweh your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. You must not have any other god but me” (Exod. 20:2, 3; NLT with Yahweh in...
Top Bottom