ley to be available and what if it wasn’t? Yes, the barley is associated with the Passover and days of Unleavened Bread according to the Encyclopedia Judaica and other Jewish writings, especially concerning the second temple period. But we must ask the question, After the temple was destroyed and the people dispersed how could they determine whether the barley was ripe or not? The people had been dispersed throughout the world. Not until the middle to latter part of the 20th century have we had the travel or communication networks available to be able to determine whether there was ripe barley available in the Jerusalem area or not and then get that message out to others around the world. What about those hundreds and hundreds of years when it was impossible to travel to that area to make a determination and get the message back to the people as to when to begin the year and keep the feasts? Remember that travel was painstakingly slow and communication was only as fast as feet, oxen, horses and ships could move. There had to be another way to determine the beginning of the year and when to observe the festivals of Yahweh even though His people might have been very few and far between. The only way would have been to utilize the signs that Yahweh originally established, to wit; the sun, moon and stars. It truly appears that the sun, moon and equinox must be occurring in the same constellation in order to determine the beginning of the year. It is obvious that Yahweh put a time clock in the heavens and also in the plants. A little observance is all it takes to figure this out. There are certain wild flowers that spring forth, bud and bloom every year. They have a time clock that causes them to come forth at the same time each year. The same thing goes for the trees. Some trees are early bloomers, others are late. Some will have sprouted, budded, bloomed and leafed before the vernal equinox occurs. Others will take place around the time that the equinox is occurring and still others will not wake up, bud, bloom and leaf out until after the equinox. The same thing goes for the autumnal equinox. While a frost will make plants die or go to sleep quicker, the simple fact of the matter is that whether there is a frost or not, some trees will begin to lose their leaves and go dormant before the equinox, others around the equinox and still others after the equinox. The point of the matter is that these plants have a time clock which is in synchronization with the heavenly signs. Farmers can truly verify this. Of course, man has not left the grains that he raises for his food alone. He has bred and cross bred until it would probably be impossible to find a strain of barley that is directly descended from the grains of 2,000—
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