PARABLE OF THE SOWER I believe this is the most important parable Yeshua ever spoke. He made its importance clear when He spoke the words: Do you not

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1 PARABLE OF THE SOWER I believe this is the most important parable Yeshua ever spoke. He made its importance clear when He spoke the words: Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables? Without understanding this parable, I believe the rest will never be revealed to their fullest. When reading parables always keep in mind in Hebrew the teaching is in the end of the parable. That concept applies to this parable also. There is only one true seed of the Word of Yah as revealed in the parable of the sower. In the bible the word seed and word mean the same thing (Luke 8:11 & John 1:1,14). The Word is Yeshua. Yeshua is the one good seed. One good seed, torah, the word, Yeshua, Abrahams seed in us. The good seed (agriculture, field, garden) is the word of Yah (words, linguistics), which became flesh (body, biology). The torah is an agricultural idea. Mark 4:3-9 (see also Matt. 13:1-9 & Luke 8:4) Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow; 4 and it came about that as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. 6 And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8 And other seeds fell into the good soil and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. 9 And He was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear. This is probably the most significant parable Yeshua taught. Without a proper understanding of it, the others will never be fully revealed. The seed referred to in this parable of the sower and the seed, was the only scriptures available at that time, the Torah scroll. Man is to work, tend to the Word of Yah which is His seed in the garden. Man is to sow the seed all over the place simply because you never know where there is good ground. Mark 4:11-14 And He was saying to them, To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God; but those who are outside get everything in parables, 12 in order that while seeing, they may see and not perceive; and while hearing, they may hear and not understand lest they return and be forgiven. And He said to them, Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 1

2 Yeshua is pointing out to His disciples that they need to understand the basic principal of the torah seed or they will not be able to understand the rest of the parables. It is a fundamental idea that is required to enable one to grasp the other parables. Keep in mind here that Yeshua is talking about the Word written long before any Renewed Testament existed. The Torah is the seed to be sown, is what He is saying, not the Renewed Testament, it never existed. There is only one good seed. Seed reproduces after its kind. Matt. 7:16 You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? Those who plant the living Word produce others of the same belief, who in turn have that seed within them, which enables them to produce the same seed. When someone sees our fruit and they come and pick from that fruit, they will in turn produce likewise fruit. They are figuratively speaking, ingesting that good food, and if it goes into good ground, they too will produce 30, 60 or even 100 fold. In verse eleven Yeshua is revealing the fact that this understanding is a mystery of the kingdom of Yah. He is making it very clear just how important it is that we grasp this basic principal or we will not understand the depths of the other parables He is about to tell them. Some seeds fall on the roadside and birds pick them up, some fall on stony ground and never grow, some fall among the thorns and get choked out, you just never know where the sown seed may take roots. Yeshua is revealing to them something that has previously been kept in the dark. Mark 4:21-22 And He was saying to them, A lamp is not brought to be put under a peckmeasure, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand? 22 For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it should come to light. Messiah is telling them to speak the truth of the word and let their light shine so that others can see it and come to them for guidance. This knowledge was previously under cover, and in it s time the light of the message was able to shine forth. Mark 4:8-9 And other seeds fell into the good soil and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred fold. 9 And He was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Yeshua is the good seed. Gal. 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, And to seeds, as referring to many, but rather to one, And to your seed, that is, Messiah. He does not say, And to seeds, as referring to many, but rather to one, And to your seed, that is, Messiah. Yeshua is the singular seed referred to here. He is the torah seed in the flesh. Keep in mind the entire idea of torah should be looked at from an agricultural point of view. Yeshua is the seed sown in our hearts if we are truly His people. If that is the case the fruit from that seed will produce the same fruit as Yeshua s seed did. Sowing barley does not produce apples. As you may recall when Paul talks about the fruit of the spirit in his writings, (Galatians), it is always referred to as singular. It is not the fruits of the spirit, but the fruit of the spirit. The fruit may have multiple manifestations (attributes), but it is singular because it comes from one seed, the Torah. If anyone produces fruit that is not of the torah, it is not the Living Word of the Almighty, but in fact, the counterfeit. 2

3 CONCEPTION In Hebrew the word for seed (sperm) is zera, it is in the masculine genre. Yada in Hebrew means to know, intimate relationship, or intimate knowledge. Anyone familiar with the most well known comedy series of all time back in the 1980 s; Seinfield, may remember several episodes where Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine discussed how many weird uses there are for the words yada, yada, yada. They made a comical routine about strange uses for the Jewish word yada. Although it was of course done in a comical manner, there was a great amount of truth in their strange use of the word. In its biblical usage it has a very important meaning, yet in the worldy use it simply meant I know, I know I know. Emuna is the Hebrew word for faith in a feminine gender. When the seed, the Word (sperm), meets the faith (egg) of a person they have an intimate relationship. When Yeshua said I never knew you. He was referring to that yada concept. The Word without faith (trust) means nothing. The sperm without the egg will not create life. On the other hand, faith without the seed of the Word produces NOTHING. The masculine gender zera (sperm) must come in contact with the feminine emuna to create life. This is an example of the incredible beauty seen in Yah s Hebrew tongue, far too deep for most of us to every really understand fully. That s the picture of Yah s Words creating life, just as Yah s Words created everything else in the Universe. We see threw a glass darkly (1Cor. 13:12), but Yah sees everything (including the end), in the beginning and reveals it to us through His Hebrew tongue. There is only one true seed. The seed is the Word. The Word is the Messiah. Luke 8:11 (see also Mark 4:1) Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. 12 And those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved. According to John 1:1 Yeshua is the Word of Yah, Yeshua is the Living Torah, so that simply means Yeshua is the seed, or the Torah is the seed, however you want to look at it. SPERM AND EGG Rom. 9:7 neither are they all children because they are Abraham s descendants, but: through Isaac your descendants will be named. We are talking about Isaac and Ishmael. Isaac was born as the result of faith. Ishmael was the result of not trusting Yah. The seed is faith, the Word of Yah. Abraham trusted in Yah s Word and to him was born a son of the seed, faith, who s name was Isaac. The seed never had anything to do with sperm. Yah only uses sperm as a physical example of a spiritual reality. If one can properly grasp the physical he will grasp the spiritual, and vice versa. Man produces the sperm and the woman produces the egg. Many get confused and say the seed from Abraham was his sperm, given only to his biological descendants, Israel. That only Abraham s offspring are the true seed. It does not say that anywhere in scripture. Think about it, the grandmother of Abraham whom many call the Father of the Jews (Rebecca), was a gentile. The grandmother of the twelve tribes of Israel was a goyim. When did the seed of the woman come into play? Gen. 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the 3

4 heel. The roots, the flowers, and the fruits all exist so that seeds can be produced. We are to sow the seed to perpetuate the seed. The seeds can t just fall straight to the ground or the new plants would suffocate themselves. The seeds are scattered by the wind. Yeshua said He wanted the disciples to scatter to many parts of the world to sow the seed. The wind is the holy spirit who scatters the seeds throughout the world. Isa. 11:1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. Yeshua is the seed, the branch, from the stem of Jesse. Yeshua says those who receive Him will become children of Yah. Those who receive His seed as the Living Word, and are obedient, are His children. FRUIT OF THE SEED Isn t it interesting that all things come from a seed and they reproduce themselves of like kind. In the human body cells reproduce after themselves, that s how we grow, survive. Why is this?. Because there is life in the cells. There are zillions of cells in the human body. Each one of these cells is made up of chromosomes. Each cell has 46 chromosomes that reproduce to form life. Life is not possible in a cell without 46 chromosomes. Let me repeat that, without reproduction of the chromosomes in the cells there would be no life. The sperm of the man and the egg of the women each have 23 chromosomes. They collectively create life. Yah designed man and woman to come together in unity (as one) to form life. The sperm by itself does not have life, neither does the egg. Only when those two become one is life created. Isa. 27:6 In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout; And they will fill the whole world with fruit. Isa. 4:1 In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel. Ps. 92:12-15 The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.13 Planted in the house of the LORD, They will flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They will still yield fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and very green, 15 To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. When we eat a fruit, it contains the seed of that fruit. If the fruit is the word of Yah it will grow inside of you. When you eat that fruit you receive what that fruit contains. The three foundational laws introduced to us in Genesis1:1-11 are: 1) The seed is used to express what starts all things, and it reproduces all things. 4

5 2) Like kind produces like kind (law of entropy). Apples don t produce tomatoes. There goes evolution. 3) The seed is in the fruit. Matt. 7:17-23 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will know them by their fruits. 21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? 23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. That GOOD FRUIT is your WORKS. If Torah is in the seed and everyone has the seed in them, than those who think they can be saved by re-seeding the already planted seed in us (doing Torah for salvation), are simply wrong. This seed is simply a gift from Yah, planted in all of us, waiting to be watered and worked. Yah is waiting for us to water and work the soil in our spiritual garden so the seed can come forth and produce fruit. Yah gives us that water, faith. We cannot earn it. It will produce as per the law of entropy, like kind after like kind, which is a basic law of physics. This is what Paul was referring to in Rom. 1:20-21 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Both trees grew from seeds. One seed is planted in the garden and it grows into the tree of life. Somehow another seed is sown in the garden, the seed of wisdom and knowledge. Could Satan have found this seed elsewhere and moved it or did Yah plant it? Yah commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of the counterfeit tree and because they broke His commandment their spiritual lives were seriously diminished, which is what we call the fall of man. Because Adam was always eating from the tree of life; he was always producing life. When they ate of the tree of knowledge their pure knowledge of good and evil already in their conscience, was infiltrated by the counterfeit, causing confusion. Their fall has affected mankind ever since. From that moment on spiritual warfare became the battleground of life. The kind of warfare few realize affects everything in their lives and the lives of their families under them. This is the battle today, not a battle of swords and spears, but a battle of spiritual power and authority in the name of Yahveh, or in the name of His arch enemy. THE FAMILY UNIT In the same way Adam was to work and guard the garden in the beginning, it is the job of a man to work and look out for his family. He needs to focus on providing them with the necessities of life. Too often men become overly involved in their work and they forget to GUARD the ground of their family. This is why it is not good for man to be alone. Yah made a helpmate for man in the form of a women because they are his opposite. They are in fact there to oppose him. They are not to oppose just for the sake of opposing or to 5

6 assume the man s position. Women are not to try to lord over their husband, but to point things out to him from a different perspective. Her purpose is to help the man be what he is supposed to be, and the man s purpose is to love her as Messiah loves us. She should respect and love her man and her man should love and respect her. The proper couple should walk side by side, not one behind the other. They compliment each other when they are working together in echad (unity) and they and their family are blessed accordingly. Yah took a rib from the side of the man and formed a woman. From the side of the man that woman should always be, because they are spiritually one in the flesh. Women and men think differently, that is not by chance. They do so because when working together as a unit, all directions are covered. They are working from opposite directions, coming together at the hub. As the wheel goes around the two come together at the hub and things roll smoothly through life. The tree of life is symbolic of the words of ones father and mother. When parents tell a child to not touch the hot stove it is the same analogy of the torah, tree of life. Parents have the best interests of their child in mind when they tell them not to touch the stove. Parents want their children to live their adolescent lives based on their trust in them. Parents don t want their children to base their lives upon their own personal experience. Children only have their own personal interests in mind, whereas a true parent has everyone's interest in mind. They don t want their children's hands burned in order to figure out that stoves are hot and dangerous. Both experiences come to the same conclusion; the stove is hot and it burns those who touch it, but the parents don t want their children to find this out the hard way. One way results in a burned hand and one results in continuing to be whole and complete. In this same way Yah wants us to trust Him when He says keep My commandments, stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the hot stove. Abide by the tree of life, the wise words of your mother and father. They have a child's best interests in mind because they love them and want to protect them. This is the exact same scenario Yah has for His children. Yah wants you to listen to Him because of an intimate relationship you have with Him as your Father. His seed is in you and that s what makes you His child. THE GOVERNMENT In most governments today the basic concept of the opposition party is fundamental to the ruling of the Nation. The political group in power is ruling, and theoretically the opposition is supposed to be showing alternative ways of meeting the bigger goal of the Nation. As we all know, in almost all cases, this is simply not the way it is. The opposition parties oppose everything the party in power does just to try and get the party in power, out. Opposition has now become another well used tool of witchcraft. It s all about power, domination, and manipulation in politics. It matters not whether it is the party in power doing this or the opposition, the fact is, they both use their crafts to manipulate each other instead of trying to work together for the good of the country. THE COUNTERFEIT SPIRIT Anyone who has been in any typical SUNday type so-called church has had the 30, 60 and 100 fold concept preached to them time and time again. This concept is used regularly by preachers trying to get your money. The CEO S (pastors) try to convince their deceived members that the more money they sow into their pagan palace, the more 6

7 money will be returned to them. The seed the church is talking about is MONEY which is NOT the Word of Yah!!! The fruit that is produced from the true seed is called the sons of Yah. The seed, Word of Yah, is planted in fertile ground and we become the sons of Yah. The only way this seed produces is by us WORKING THE GROUND, faith without works is dead. It s not the hearers of the Word (law) that are justified, it is the DOERS of the law. By the way, that was written by both Paul and James, the brother of Yeshua (James 2:17). Most of these counterfeit churches are worshipping another deity that promotes mammon (prosperity preaching). The old Latin cliché; caveat emptor, (let the buyer beware) clearly applies to the people buying this teaching of the false holy spirit alive and active in those so-called churches. THE WATCHMAN TODAY What I have revealed so far all relates to us in this age, while supposed men of God sleep, the enemy has come into the garden and sown weeds. This describes the proclaimed christian church to a tee. The guards of the Word (so-called preachers) have been sleeping ever since 325 AD and the serpent has come in and sown weeds (paganism) all over the garden. The midst of the garden is supposed to be where Yah is to come down and commune with man, but this has not been the case for many many years. The tree of life in the garden is symbolic of Yah s Word and it has been neglected. Obviously the garden is a holy place and the preachers that have come in and sown weeds are just like the serpent of old who deceived Adam and Eve with their charisma, cunning words, their craftiness (witchcraft), lawlessness, wicked ways, and evil doings. The men who are supposed to be working the garden are in fact sowing the serpents seeds throughout. They are not there to guard it like real holy men are supposed to. These men have come in with their lies and deception and have sown seeds that have overtaken the garden. The true sons of Yah have to work the ground and guard it. They must push out the liars and deceivers claiming to be holy, and take back the garden so that fruit can once again grow in the fertile soil. What they have done is the same type of abomination that Antiochus of Epiphanies' did when he desecrated the Temple in days of old. These serpents, church CEO S (supposed pastors), must be overcome by the Word of Yah and the Power of His Word. This is called spiritual warfare. The true bondservants of Yah are in a spiritual battle and part of their job is to expose the serpents and the seeds planted in SUNday type churches all over the world. Like the Judah Maccabees back in the days of Mattathias, it is time the true Israelites (Israelite means over comers of Yah), reveal these tares among the people. Those with their hands in others pockets. Yah s watchman have to come forward, expose the evil and do the works of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We must plant the seed, work the soil and have the plants produce fruit. When this fruit is given out, others taste of it and it attracts them to this nourishing Word of the Most High. We must however be diligent to guard that garden of truth, for the snake is always 7

8 watching, looking for any opportunity to spread his lies (tares) among the wheat. Hasatan has been spreading his lies and deception in the pro-claimed christian churches for long enough. It time Yah s warriors, His remnant, rose up and put them in their place. SUMMARY Acts 3:19-21 Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; 20 and that He may send Yeshua, the Messiah appointed for you, 21 whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. Hebrew was one of the first languages and it is now being restored. Peter says to be holy. He doesn t explain how to be holy, the assumption is you know how to be holy because you understand what is written in the bible about holiness. 1Pet. 1:15-16 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all {your} behavior; because it is written, YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY. Here Peter is referring to the dietary laws in the torah. He is referencing Lev. 11:45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; thus you shall be holy for I am holy. John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. The word, seed gives life. Ps. 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. 7 Thou, O LORD, wilt keep them; Thou wilt preserve him from this generation forever. Gen. 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel. The moment that seed met with the first act of faith a body began to grow. Entropy is the law of physics that says all things wind down. All things corrupt over time. This was part of Einstein's theory of relativity. All material things (mass) eventually corrupt, but not spiritual things. This does not apply to spiritual things, that s why they are forever. The law of thermodynamics are the laws of heat. Everything that you see is composed of energy. The last form of energy is heat. Then heat dissipates into the universe, it never turns to nothing, it just dissipates. Science knows nothing really ever goes away. Eccl. 1:9-10 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So, there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one might say, See this, it is new? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us. Science also knows that things given in and of themselves, left alone, will corrupt and rot away. A simple example is as follows. If you took a brand new wooden house and left it out in the open sun for 300 years what would happen to it? You would have little left other than a big pile of rubble. It will by nature corrupt into a pile of dust given enough time. If we took that same house and looked after it, painted it, repaired it, kept it up, it would last much much longer. That is because something or someone greater than the subject in question (house) took care of it, the house would be sustained indefinitely. That is the truth that Yah has put into science that we see all around us with our eyes. This is first stated in Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. All things later created were created out of the things spoken of in verse 8

9 one. There is nothing created after that until we get to verse twenty one. Technically it s incorrect to say the first six days, were the days of creation. There is forming, making, calling and letting be in the first six days but only of the things created in verse one. Then more creative acts take place in verse twenty one. Col. 1:16-17 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created by Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Who is the Him referred to in this verse? It is Yah who is the seed. The Word of Yah, summed up in His Ten Commandments, is what holds this world, creation, together. We are in a sense, when we follow His commandments, co-participants in the survival of the earth. When the word is removed from earth it will turn into a Lake Of Fire. The Word has no mass so it is not subject to the law of entropy. The Word of Yah is as powerful today as it was in the beginning because it is not subject to entropy. The Word of Yah sustains all things spiritual. I conclude by saying this teaching is going to be difficult for many people to absorb because this is swimming in the deep end of the pool. I hope your a good swimmer. (Mar 23/16) Jerry Hennig 9