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Here is the subscription I believe is the most acurate TO KNOW  to being healthy; these from a Doctor I understand, are not to include direct scriptures or any know rationalization to scriptures.

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THINGS I do not OR did not know

1. WC Douglass, M.D. 
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• Why cancer docs are eager to operate
  Mon, 1/14/13 Inbox
  ... and zap ...
  ... cancer victims with as much radiation as they can stand despite knowing that many of these cancers would never pose any risk at all.
  
  They know as well as you and I that breast and prostate tumors in particular grow so slowly that you'll often die of something else long before that cancer ever turns dangerous.
  
  They know all that... but they operate anyway.
  
  ...
•   there are now 1.3 million women (and counting) who have been given breast cancer treatments they never needed. And millions of men are battling the emasculating side effects of prostate cancer treatments...
  ...
  A new survey finds these doctors are seven times more likely to report a bump in pay when they oversee patients' treatments than docs who are on salary and make the same income no matter how much (or how little) they do.
  
  Again, no big surprise there. Docs who do more, earn more -- in the best of all worlds, isn't that how it should be for everyone?
  
  Here in the world we actually live in, on the other hand, being paid per treatment means NOT being paid when you DON'T provide treatment -- and since you can't pay for a Porsche by letting money walk out the door, these docs find a way to treat everyone.
  
  And that's why docs now routinely hack off boobs, slice up prostates, and zap cancer victims with as much radiation as they can stand despite knowing that many of these cancers would never pose any risk at all.
  
  They know as well as you and I that breast and prostate tumors in particular grow so slowly that you'll often die of something else long before that cancer ever turns dangerous.
  
  They know all that... but they operate anyway.
  
  And so you get what we're seeing today. As I told you recently, there are now 1.3 million women (and counting) who have been given breast cancer treatments they never needed. And millions of men are battling the emasculating side effects of prostate cancer treatments they didn't need, either.

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• WC Douglass, M.D.  Is Astaxanthin a natural miracle? Mon, 4/29/13 Inbox
•  ...mammogram rates are steadily falling as women learn the truth: Breast screenings ruin far more lives than they ever save. Mammograms have led to a boom in toxic and disfiguring cancer treatments, but they've barely made a dent in the disease's death...
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•  WC Douglass, M.D.  Have you given up on great sex? Sat, 4/13/13 Inbox
•  ...spotlight for good. And once you've tried this incredible breakthrough, you'll feel why. View this special presentation. Breast cancer treatment can cause heart disease Congratulations, your cancer is cured. Oh, and by the way, you now have heart disease...
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•  WC Douglass, M.D.  Get 3 bottles of the fastest pain relief--on us! Fri, 4/12/13 Inbox
•  ...but you haven't heard about until now... Radiation for breast cancer can cause heart disease Congratulations, your cancer...problems can linger for as much as THREE YEARS after the cancer scare. That's not even a "scare" at that point. That...
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•    WC Douglass, M.D.  New video reveals The Lazarus Cure Tue, 3/5/13 Inbox
•  ...to deadly diseases. For example… Shortened telomeres increase your risk of dying from breast, prostate, colorectal, bladder, neck, lung and kidney cancer. Shortened telomeres increase your risk of dying from infectious disease. Shortened telomeres...
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• Read     WC Douglass, M.D.  Why cancer docs are eager to operate Mon, 1/14/13 Inbox
•  ...what we're seeing today. As I told you recently, there are now 1.3 million women (and counting) who have been given breast cancer treatments they never needed. And millions of men are battling the emasculating side effects of prostate cancer treatments...
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• WC Douglass, M.D.  Just ONE PILL and your prostate support is set! Sat, 12/22/12 Inbox
•  ...levels. Read the full story. Common imaging tests can lead to cancer If there's anything more striking than the rise in breast cancer rates, it's the rise in breast cancer rates among YOUNG patients. These aren't tumors caught early by the wonders of...
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•  WC Douglass, M.D.  Did you miss this? Wed, 12/19/12 Inbox
•  ...biggest health dangers. Common imaging tests can lead to cancer If there's anything more striking than the rise in breast cancer rates, it's the rise in breast cancer rates among YOUNG patients. These aren't tumors caught early by the wonders of...
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•  WC Douglass, M.D.  The "OTHER" CoQ10 most supplement makers won't dare tell you about... Sat, 12/15/12 Inbox
•  ...teetotalers. Read the full story. Breast screenings lead to over-treatment If mammograms really saved lives, then each breast cancer detected and treated now would lead to one less death down the road, right? Well, decades of mammograms have more than...
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•   WC Douglass, M.D.  Breast screenings lead to over-treatment Mon, 12/10/12 Inbox
•  ...years later! Click here for more . Breast screenings lead to over-treatment IF mammograms really saved lives, then each breast cancer detected and treated now would lead to one less death down the road, right? Well, we're WAAAAAAAY down that road now...
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A collective sense is a journey like that of the torch; on its passing through many hands all working together collectively to the equal chance or balance or best presentations, all to that opening cerimoniously...
On the Parallel, there was a world that came from fiction and truth and documentary, and humor and love, and all that Hollywood could present. The other Libra who passed away today; the Mouseketeers ...
ANNETTE PASSED AWAY TODAY TOO
Monday, April 8, 2013


OMG, Who Art In Heaven, "A Dream Is A Wish Our Heart Makes"

How much of our world could be concidered His AutoBiography...

I dont know how long the OMG article will stay online...

... yet because we are only here for a moment...
http://oalhal.blogspot.com/2013/04/omg-who-art-in-heaven-dream-is-wish-our.html



Margeret ... ...she wrote a biography too ...
... and now, what is the only possibility we have at our disposal to overcome our inner blocks and to eliminate outgrown situations that have become inextricable ...
I can see her life and place or point of view of a harmony with a parallel in tune;
at some sence where of many topics, the individuals unite ina liberal peace and calm and comfort, or stand sturdy in conservative traditions and current trends pragmatic to the greater masses, mixed, or status quo, or care of basic needs from peasant dignitary or polititian; an either or, without the "or revolt". And I'm sure there is a world that has just opinions over all those occaisions by her position medium of the world powers...
Uranus represents individual freedom, originality, independence, marginality, avant guard inspiration, ultra modernism. Fire is its element, it is dry, and it rules Aquarius, is in exaltation with Scorpio and is in analogy with the brain and the nerves. ...
In Harmony with the Ascendant
Ascendant represents one's behaviour in the eyes of others, and also one's health. It corresponds to the way the individual acts in the world. It is the image of the personality seen by others and the person's visible behaviour expressed outwardly.

What does the world present to us????

TWO SENSE, WORTH; SHARE AND CARE

What Is a Half-Penny anyway?

Half a Penny?

That's better than  none; I guess.
Yet one small wonder, since discussions, at least in Washington's Executive Branch shares open talk of doing away with the U.S. Penny; is this wise decision at all; a wonder or a wisdom out of economic, financial, and political formulas; and of each, what purpose and need would  this fulfill , or subtract, from and to?

Of coarse we do not worship money.
Is it time to start throwing Nickels into the Share-A-Penny Jar?
Should the U.S.A. Mint's systematic production start cutting pennies in half,....
... the wonder would be to whether considerations had been made to double the economic physical work of working with one tenth of a tenth of a whole dollar; or...
..., if it is, that there is, of if there is a trickle going up ...
...or trickeling down or anywhere at all; that is again, or both...
..and of both those by the numbers, is it this that sustains a tenth of a tenth of the population using the denomination of this currency ?
Are there hidden common denominations far less than a penny that are attached to electronic billing systems that already round off to the nearest penny?
$1.00.5; no!, simply just .005 or after the .99 is the .00-and-a-half!
Allready-Every under 1 dollar is every 9 tenths and 9 pennys sgort 1 penny.
Every hundred of 9 1-Thousandths would be what?, a penny or a Dime, less than a whole dollar?

The Fiat Currency is a trend of trade that margins 8 dollars for credit issuance to  every 1 dollar; the abstracts of what that 1 dollar might be, I do not even know...
Every Printed Dollar?
Every Dollar entered into circulation? (iS that the same as ptinted?)
..Every Dollar Barrowed?
...Every Dollar in debt over 1 calendar year?
....What is a Penny really worth?
.....What's a Nickle anyway?

Is a decision of the matter a political one of economic sound?
Is this a  psychological creation that is meant to elate the feelings...
.. of working with higher dollar totals? (I meant Nickel totals)?

In all, denominations; we share.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Is there still a Political Prayer Team?

Today’s Prayer - From the Prayer Wall

Heavenly Father, I pray for Your blessing on all those who seek Your face for our nation. Grant them insight. May their prayers ascend to Your presence as a sweet aroma. Forgive us for believing the lie that our nation is doomed. We come to You trusting the power of Your Word which says You will save our land if we humble ourselves and pray. Our people may be disciplined, but You will heal our land. I also stand before You on behalf of our president. Take what he has done that is bad and turn it around for good. Turn him around for the sake of righteousness.  In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

I liked what i saw on the presidentialprayerteam.org
We must offer prayers unto God that are “powerful and effective” (James 5:16) on behalf of this wonderful country we are blessed to call home, and we need to pray for the President and those who represent us in leadership (I Timothy 2:1-2), that we might experience peace in our land.

We must not fail to pray!
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/ppt-sign-up.asp 

Acts 2:8 - Online Parallel Bible
bible.cc/acts/2-8.htm - SimilarNT Apostles: Acts 2:8 How do we hear
everyone in our ... (Acts of the Apostles Ac) Christian Bible Study 
Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools ...

http://www.bennyhinn.org/articles/8666/good-morning-holy-spirit-march-5-9-2012

  

Half cent (United States coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The half cent is the smallest denomination of United States coin ever minted. First authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792 on April 2, 1792, the coin was produced ...

What is a half-penny worth today?



We probably dont need a team for every branch.

2012 - 2013 ; Jesus ; Zenithal ; View Trying ; 1, 3, 5, 10, 12... ; from 2012, to 13.

Looking Up; From 2012, to 2013.
New Year's Eve 2012 to New Year's Day 2013
Many things to cover here and only a few hours left this year.
Jesus; of whom, how I wonder things look here, from above? 2013. The eclipses ?
Astrology? Is Tibeth "Our Lighthouse" of 2013 ?
"Our Lighthouse Of 2013"

While some of this I had gathered to post,
The majority of this I wondered...
.... Can I search the right keywords to gather results?
 Enough of those to put together anything of interest?

Searching for meanings and purposes ...

Here it goes, as I note what I can.

THE 2012 CALENDAR,
(continueing the calendar)
(and starting the new year)
(and what about the Maya Calendar?)
Iin view of predictions and prophecy's, and humanity's expactations, and the year as recorded in history; "about" now, it is December 31, 2012, and what are we looking forward to, and, what were our focuses on in the midst of all the legends and expectations?
What things were so important and what sort of topics were we drawn to(or away from) (or turned on or off about) ?


The 2012 Posts
Numerically
On this blog, the posts turned out to be in the numerical, title or order, to the Gregorian Calendar month's of 1, 3, 5, 10 , and 12.
12fth, again now as a finale and wonder to how e will look back on this year and the conciderations that are recognizable to us now; all that, from now to years to come, 2013 only hours away here.
| 2013, "to 013". There is no "Zero" month. The Rainbow Eagle Warior Medicine Man...? 88 more years to a sequencial 01/01/01 (the year 2101)
Numerically 2011 13
2011 there were 13 posts
The 13 posts

JUST NOW -
With my internet opened to Yahoo! Main Page, the displayed article suggested was in essense "see your horoscope for 2013" (  http://shine.yahoo.com/horoscope/yearly-horoscope/
That link will change description every new year)
My first thoughts were of Jesus (what He thinks about it all)(and what true view would be similar to G-d's Will and to how we will historically view it.

Saturn in Scorpio ~via~ Libra since late 2009
Libra
2013 brings you nothing short of a total rebirth...
Uranus and Pluto 90 degrees; close; apart; 90 of the 360; and the 270 degrees between; behind; the same;
2012-2013 Astrologically, did the Earth just go through something?

that we can relate to understanding? 


 

1. 
   Chinese Zodiac History - Chinese Zodiac Story
   Legends and mythology are a big part of Chinese culture, especially in relation to the Chinese Zodiac. The 12 animals that appear on the Chinese Zodiac calendar ...
   www.chinesezodiac.com/​chinesezodiachistory.php
   
2. Chinese New Year - Zodiac Story - Topmarks Education ...
   Chinese Zodiac. There are several legends about how the animals were chosen for the Chinese zodiac. This is one of them. The Jade Emperor is the name of the Emperor ...www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/​ZodiacStory.asp

Looking Up

in general ...

Zenith

The point at which a perpendicular from any given location on the Earth's surface intersects the celestial sphere. This point is located directly above the observer. Although in poetical language it is possible to say "the Sun stood at its zenith", this is not actually (physically) possible in the middle latitudes.

The nadir is the point opposite the zenith. In astrology, the zenith is often mistakenly thought to be equivalent to the Medium Coeli.

Imum Coeli

Abbrevation: IC

The Northerly point of culmination of a sign of the zodiac for a particular time as viewed from a particular location. The literal translation of Medium Coeli (abbreviation: MC) is "bottom of the sky". The Imum Coeli lies opposite the Medium Coeli.

Astronomy

The Imum Coeli, the midnight point, represents the lower point of intersection between the meridian and the ecliptic. It should not be confused with the nadir. As is the case with the other axes, all the signs of the zodiac cross the Imum Coeli in the course of one day.

Interpretaton

As the lowest point in the horoscope, the Imum Coeli symbolises the area of life in which an individual is all alone. It is the place of greatest intimacy but also of greatest vulnerability. Here are the roots of the personality in both the literal (family) and figurative sense (soul) and the archetypal pattern. This is the point at which one can best allow oneself to fall or let go?.

The ideas symbolised by the Imum Coeli often remain unconscious because they have been so familiar to us since early childhood. It stands for the past, in contrast to the Medium Coeli which symbolises the future.

The sign of the zodiac on the Imum Coeli indicates an individual's true nature deep down inside and the quality of their innermost needs and feelings.

In Quadrant House Systems the Imum Coeli marks the beginning of the fourth house, and is associated with the Moon as its Natural House Ruler in modern astrology.

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Rainbow Eagle: Recommended Reading and Study Titles
www.rainboweagle.com/learnctrrecbks.html
He describes his vision quests and his becoming a medicine man. ... It was honored by the Greenpeace organization naming their ship, Rainbow Warrior.

Black Elk's Vision - Rainbow Family of Living Light www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/BlackElk.html
Then I looked up at the clouds, and two men were coming there, headfirst like ... we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys .... Then the eagle soared above my head and fluttered there; and suddenly the ..... was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

Don't Pay to Pray List of Frauds
www.geocities.ws/dont_pay_to_pray/list.html
Medicine Eagle, Brook aka Brooke Edwards TRIBAL WARNING .... Ed McGaa ( aka Eagle Man): Rainbow Tribe, Mother Earth, Spirituality Native Wisdom Eagle ... The Hopi Survival Kit, Native American Pathways, Mystic Warriors of the Plains ...

Wheels of Light: Chakras, Auras, and the Healing Energy of the Body - Page 37 - Google Books Result
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Rosalyn Bruyere - 1994 - Body, Mind & Spirit The sun set, although the warrior never really saw it set because the sky was ... It proceeded to fly underneath the rainbow on the valley floor, and then up over it. ... The eagle continued its ascent and flew through yet another layer, revealing ... Proudly he picked up his knife and went down the trail to find the medicine man.

Rainbow Bird Tribes - 2012 onnection
www.birdtribes.net/rainbowfamilybirdtribes.htm
Is there a connection between the Rainbow Warrior prophecies and the Return of the Bird .... Hunbatz Men, hereditary keeper of the Mayan tradition. e ... Brooke Medicine Eagle Daughter of the Rainbow, Crow and Lakota medicine woman. 9 ...

Native American Prophecy :: Abha Haven
www.b-a-h-a.org/category/native-american-prophecy
 .. rs of the Rainbow – talk at 2011 Rainbow Gathering .... Black Elk – Oglala Sioux Warrior and Medicine Man, was born in 1863. He was ..... But they say, “ When the eagle flies it's highest in the night, that will be the first light of a new day .

Knowledge Center - Kachina Dolls - Types of ... - alltribes.com
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› Knowledge Center › Kachina Dolls
Oct 19, 2012 – Eagle Kachina Doll; Hoop Dancer Kachina Doll; Hemis Kachina Doll; Wolf ... Antelope; Mudhead Kachina; Paralyzed; Medicine Man; Butterfly; Rainbow ... Warriors sometimes painted their faces with marks resembling bear claw ... Shamans or medicine men from many different groups frequently dressed ...

AMERICAN INDIAN POEMS AND QUOTES
beccas-corner.tripod.com/id22.html
They let us starve in winter, and put many warriors to rest. They walk around ... She came upon the earth, to unite the rainbow love. ... then silence, as the medicine man chants long into the night. ... who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks ...

The New Children – Prophecies of the Rainbow Warriors 2012 ...2012
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 2012 Rainbow Warriors Prophecy
For centuries the peoples of the Americas have expected ... They knew that the eagle's claw of European civilisation would inflict terrible ... but one that many accepted as part of the process of man's journey. ..... I am in awe of the medicine wheel drawing at the beginning of your article with ... list of Indian words - welcome to frontier land -

Tripodkayitah.tripod.com/page2.html 
ciye - my brother (a man's brother) ... pejula wacasa - medicine man ... wanbli galeshka - spotted eagle ... wickmunke - rainbow, or trap, or end of the rainbow ...

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Mesquite Tree Bean; The Roots To The Water; The Bread and The Wine; The Body and The Blood; Of Water And Spirit

What Did Jesus Mean When He Said, "I Never Knew You"?

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22jesus%22+%22my+body%22+%22my+blood%22+presbyterian+%22what+did+jesus+mean%22&oq=%22jesus%22+%22my+body%22+%22my+blood%22+presbyterian+%22what+did+jesus+mean%22&gs_l=hp.3...24552.33080.2.33377.22.22.0.0.0.0.250.3606.3j13j6.22.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.TicS9z6GjE0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=2bb5397ebef42a7a&bpcl=35440803&biw=792&bih=420

What did Jesus mean when he said, “This is my body and blood”?
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22jesus%22+%22my+body%22+%22my+blood%22+presbyterian&oq=%22jesus%22+%22my+body%22+%22my+blood%22+presbyterian&gs_l=hp.3...12182.17352.1.17633.13.13.0.0.0.0.281.2123.0j12j1.13.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.sMAEzTKDIHQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=2bb5397ebef42a7a&bpcl=35440803&biw=792&bih=420

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/mesquitebean.asp


Just as this post is not a post of critique on "any", or "the", "watchtower" or any comparitive of religions or denominations, nore a hub of thought statement "to start our thinking straight" or 'to guide our focus", that THIS ONE SEARCH RESULT SIMPLY STARTS BY SHARING SOME "SIMILARITY".
So, I pulled that one result and paste it here just for an ""i.e."" (that it may be a good start to relate what I've compared by the KEYWORDS OF THIS POST TITLE)
SO this is the ""GOOGLE DESCRIPTION"" found as described by wiki.answers.
THAT Wiki.answers.com page is just one, of who knows how many may be; just that, of an interesting result; hyperlinked :

wiki.answers.com › ... › Comparative Religions and DenominationsCached - Similar

 

Wine signifies blood, and blood signifies life "the life is in the blood" (Lev 17:14) ... spiritual food, "I am the bread from heaven" (John 6:51), or the body of Christ. ... As He teaches in John 2 "man is first born of water and then spirit" signified by ...
The update here today is the conclusion lede to this conclusion statement; "this drift" is of my focus is now  full of enough detail to move "from draft" to "published post".
 
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A Year in “the Good Land”




IN 1908 an exciting discovery was made at the site of the Biblical city of Gezer, which lies toward the coastal plain west of Jerusalem: a small limestone plaque, or tablet, believed to be from the tenth century B.C.E. On it, in ancient Hebrew script, was found what is thought to be a simplified version of an agricultural year, or cycle, with its various operations. This tablet has come to be known as the Gezer Calendar.



The tablet bears a signature: Abijah. Though not all archaeologists agree, many consider it to be a schoolboy’s exercise set in verse.* Would you like to see the passing of seasons through the eyes of a boy who lived back then? Doing so might help you to recall some Bible events.



Two Months of Ingathering



The writer of this ancient calendar began with the general ingathering. While it was listed first in this calendar, you can understand why the Israelites considered this ingathering to be the climax, or the end, of the major part of the agricultural year. The month of Ethanim (later called Tishri) corresponds to September/October on our present calendar. With the bulk of the harvesting finished, this was a particularly festive time that would have involved young Abijah. Imagine his excitement while helping his father make the booth that would become their home for a week as they joyfully thanked Jehovah for the fruitage of their fields!—Deuteronomy 16:13-15.



About this time, the olives were nearly ready for Abijah’s family to harvest them by beating the tree branches, a job that may have been too hard for young Abijah but fun to watch. (Deuteronomy 24:20) They would then pick up the olives and take them to the nearest stone press to make oil. Or a family might obtain some oil by a simpler method—that of placing beaten or cracked olives in water and scooping up any oil that floated to the surface. In any case, this precious liquid provided more than food. It was also used as fuel for lamps and to treat bruises and wounds, such as a lad like Abijah might get while playing.



Two Months of Sowing



When the early rains began, Abijah might have been happy to feel the cool shower on his skin. His father probably told him how important rain is for the land. (Deuteronomy 11:14) The soil, baked hard for months by the sun, would soften and become ready for plowing. The ancient plowman skillfully guided a wooden plow, perhaps one having a metal tip, as an animal pulled it along. The goal was to make straight furrows in the soil. The land was precious, so Israelite farmers even made use of small plots, including slopes. But there they might have to use handheld implements.



Once the softened soil was plowed, wheat and barley could be sown. Interestingly, the next entry in the Gezer Calendar refers to two months of such planting. The sower might carry the grain in a fold in his clothes and spread the seed with a wide sweeping movement of his arm.



Two Months of Late Sowing



“The good land” never ceased producing food. (Deuteronomy 3:25) During December, the rainfall reached its peak and the land became green. It was the time for a late sowing of legumes, such as peas and chickpeas, as well as other vegetables. (Amos 7:1, 2) On the tablet, Abijah called this the “spring pasture” or, according to another rendering, the “late planting,” a time of delicious dishes made with many vegetables from this period.



As the somewhat cold season warmed up, the almond tree, a harbinger of spring, blossomed with white and pink flowers. This could start at the slightest warming, as early as January.—Jeremiah 1:11, 12.



One Month of Cutting Flax



Abijah next mentioned flax. That might call to your mind an episode that happened centuries before Abijah’s time on the east side of the Judean hills. In the city of Jericho, Rahab hid two spies “among stalks of flax laid in rows” that had been put out to dry on her roof. (Joshua 2:6) Flax played an important part in the Israelites’ lives. To release the flax fibers, the plant material first had to rot. This would take place slowly with the dew or more rapidly by placing the flax in a pond or a stream. Once separated, the flax fibers were used to produce linen, which was then made into sails, tents, and clothes. Flax was also used for lamp wicks.



Some object to the idea that flax was grown in the Gezer area, where water was somewhat scarce. Others maintain that flax was grown only later in the year. That is why some hold that in the Gezer Calendar, the word “flax” was a synonym for fodder “grass.”



One Month of Barley Harvest



Each year, close to the spring equinox, Abijah observed the green ears of barley, the crop he mentioned next on his calendar. The corresponding month in Hebrew is Abib, meaning “Green Ears,” possibly referring to the stage when the ears are ripe but still soft. Jehovah commanded: “Let there be an observing of the month of Abib, and you must celebrate the passover to Jehovah.” (Deuteronomy 16:1) Abib (later called Nisan) corresponds to parts of today’s March and April. The time of the ripening of barley may have played a role in determining the start of this month. Even today, Karaite Jews observe this ripening to establish their new year. In any case, barley firstfruits had to be waved before Jehovah on the 16th of Abib.—Leviticus 23:10, 11.



Barley had a very important place in the everyday life of most Israelites. Cheaper than wheat, barley was often preferred for making bread, particularly by the poor.—Ezekiel 4:12.



One Month of Harvest and Measure



If you think back to Abijah’s time, you can imagine that early one morning he might have noticed the heavy clouds dissipating—no more rain for a while. The plants of the good land were now dependent on the dew. (Genesis 27:28; Zechariah 8:12) Israelite farmers were aware that many crops harvested during the sunniest months of the year needed a subtle balance of winds until Pentecost. The cold, wet wind coming from the north might have benefited developing cereals, but such were damaging to fruit trees once they blossomed. The hot, dry wind from the south helped the blossoms to open and pollinate.—Proverbs 25:23; Song of Solomon 4:16.



Jehovah, the Master of the elements, had set in motion a finely tuned ecological system. In Abijah’s day, Israel was really “a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil olives and honey.” (Deuteronomy 8:8) Abijah’s grandfather may have told him about the extraordinary period of abundance under wise King Solomon’s rule—clear evidence of Jehovah’s blessing.—1 Kings 4:20.



After mentioning harvesting, the calendar contained a word that some take to mean “measuring.” That might refer to measuring the harvest to give portions to the owners of the field and to the workers or even to pay as a tax. However, other scholars understand the Hebrew word to be “feasting” and see in this an allusion to the Festival of Weeks, which fell in the month of Sivan (May/June).—Exodus 34:22.



Two Months of Leaf Plucking



Abijah next wrote about two months of tending vines. Might he have helped to pluck the abundant foliage off the vines to allow the sun to reach the grapes? (Isaiah 18:5) Then came the time to gather the grapes, an exciting period for a youth back then. How delicious the first ripe grapes were! Abijah had likely heard about the 12 spies sent into the Promised Land by Moses. They went in the days of the first ripe fruits of the grapes to see how good the land was. On that occasion, one bunch of grapes was so large that it took two men to carry it!—Numbers 13:20, 23.



One Month of Summer Fruit



The last entry on Abijah’s calendar referred to summer fruit. In the ancient Middle East, summer was the part of the agricultural year that focused on fruit. After Abijah’s time, Jehovah used the expression “a basket of summer fruit” to illustrate that ‘the end had come to his people Israel,’ using a wordplay with “summer fruit” and “end” in Hebrew. (Amos 8:2) This should have reminded unfaithful Israel that it had reached its end and that Jehovah’s judgment was due. Figs were no doubt among the summer fruits that Abijah was referring to. Summer figs might be pressed into cakes to eat or used as a poultice for boils.—2 Kings 20:7.



The Gezer Calendar and You



Young Abijah was likely in direct contact with the agricultural life of the country. Farm activities were widespread among the Israelites in those days. Even if you are not in close contact with agricultural activities, the references in this tablet from Gezer can help to bring your Bible reading to life, making it more understandable and meaningful.



[Footnote]



There is not full agreement about the correspondency between the list on the Gezer Calendar and the months generally followed in the Bible. Furthermore, some agricultural operations could take place at slightly different times in the various areas of the Promised Land.



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A POSSIBLE RENDERING OF THE GEZER CALENDAR TEXT:



“Months of vintage and olive harvest;



months of sowing;



months of spring pasture;



month of flax pulling;



month of barley harvest;



month of wheat harvest and measuring;



months of pruning;



month of summer fruit.”



[signed:] Abijah*



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Based on Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions, Volume 1, by John C. L. Gibson, 1971.



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NISAN (ABIB)



March—April



IYYAR (ZIV)



April—May



SIVAN



May—June



TAMMUZ



June—July



AB



July—August



ELUL



August—September



TISHRI (ETHANIM)



September—October



HESHVAN (BUL)



October—November



CHISLEV



November—December



TEBETH



December—January



SHEBAT



January—February



ADAR



February—March



VEADAR



March



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