Epistle of Barnabas 9-10 - Hidden Meaning of Seeds and Ears / Hidden Mystery

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Barnabas 9:1
Furthermore He saith concerning the ears, how that it is our heart
which He circumcised. The Lord saith in the prophet; With the
hearing of the ears they listened to Me. And again He saith;
They that are afar off shall hear with their ears, and shall
perceive what I have done. And; Be ye circumcised in your
hearts, saith the Lord.

---Ears are not simply the ears we hear with. They are the ears of grain that open when a new plant grows. Opening ears in this sense has a similar meaning to opening the eyes / ears, and having an ear to hear and an eye to see. Circumcision of the heart is connected to this deeply. Sin is what God cuts away, but the process is not easy to take.

Barnabas 9:2
And again He saith; Hear, O Israel, for thus saith the Lord thy
God. Who is he that desireth to live forever, let him hear with his
ears the voice of My servant.

And again He saith; Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth, for the
Lord hath spoken these things for a testimony. And again He saith;
Hear the words of the Lord, ye rulers of this people. And again He
saith; Hear, O my children, the voice of one crying in the
wilderness. Therefore He circumcised our ears, that hearing the
word we might believe.

---Going back to John 6:65, God must prepare a person before coming to Christ--part of this is cutting away of our pride, which stops up the ears and eyes. Once faith arrives, the eyes and ears are opened, but not before pride is exchanged for humility in the heart.

Barnabas 9:3
But moreover the circumcision, in which they have confidence, is
abolished; for He hath said that a circumcision not of the flesh
should be practiced. But they transgressed, for an evil angel taught
them cleverness.

---Compare this to Paul on the subject of circumcision and Barnabas in relation.

Barnabas 9:4
He saith unto them; Thus saith the Lord your God (so I find the
commandment); sow not upon thorns, be ye circumcised in to your
Lord. And what saith He? Be ye circumcised in the hardness of
your heart; and then ye will not harden your neck. Take this
again; Behold, sayith the Lord, all the Gentiles are uncircumcised
in their foreskin, but this people is uncircumcised in their
hearts.

---Here, we have the ears again of seed being compared to circumcision and God opening those ears to listen. A stiff necked people do not follow what they are taught. He is comparing Israel, being circumcised, not having the sin cut from their hearts. This is then ironic compared to the Gentiles who are uncircumcised, but made righteous in their hearts by Christ.

Barnabas 9:5
But thou wilt say; In truth the people hath been circumcised for a
seal. Nay, but so likewise is every Syrian and Arabian and all the
priests of the idols. Do all those then too belong to their
covenant? Moreover the Egyptians also are included among the
circumcised.

---What makes the difference? Christ. Faith. Salvation. The marking of the Holy Spirit.

Barnabas 9:6
Learn therefore, children of love, concerning all things abundantly,
that Abraham, who first appointed circumcision, looked forward in the
spirit unto Jesus, when he circumcised having received the ordinances
of three letters.

---Moses knew the symbolism and what it meant. All of these ordinances, such as baptism and circumcision, are there to point us to the true meaning. Partaking of the bread and wine signify the fact that our baptism is in the body of Christ. As 1 Corinthians 10 states, "we, who are many, are one loaf." What is a loaf of bread made from? Seed (Ears of Grain). When Christ opens our ears, we are engaged into life through baptism into the water and soil.

Barnabas 9:7
For the scripture saith; And Abraham circumcised of his household
eighteen males and three hundred. What then was the knowledge
given unto him? Understand ye that He saith the eighteen first,
and then after an interval three hundred In the eighteen 'I'
stands for ten, 'H' for eight. Here thou hast JESUS (IHSOYS). And
because the cross in the 'T' was to have grace, He saith also three
hundred. So He revealeth Jesus in the two letters, and in the
remaining one the cross.

---Connect this together now. Ears are for hearing. Hearing brings wisdom and cuts pride from the heart. Once this is accomplished, knowledge is imparted. T is Tav. Tav is the last Hebrew letter representing the cross and salvation. Grace and mercy is the cross. Here, the scriptures were revealing Christ as encoded from the beginning.

Barnabas 9:8
He who placed within us the innate gift of His covenant knoweth; no
man hath ever learnt from me a more genuine word; but I know that ye
are worthy.

---What do we know today about information encoded into Word? What do we know today about seed?

Father in Hebrew is Aleph (Strength) Bet (House). The Alphabet writes the Word. What is the Word? Christ. Son in Hebrew is Bet (House) Nun (Seed). We, who are many, are one loaf of bread. This means that we are all from the same seed, which is the Son of God. For us, the letters of creation represents DNA and DNA, as we know, is the strong house of information that creates our own house here in reality. The body is the temple of God.

Colossians 1

15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

---Baptism is immersion into the water. Mother in Hebrew is Aleph Mem (water). She is the strong waters of life. The catalyst for letter of DNA and Word is the water. If you go back through my many threads, all you see is evidence for the story we know. Love God and love others. Open your ears to a new life.

AMN in Hebrew is TRUE. We know this as AMEN

AMN in Greek and Latin (Gentile Version) is LAMB

AMNi is river of life

AMNio is the bowl catching the sacrifice of the Lamb

AMNion is the sac covering the baby in the womb

AMNiotic Fluid is the water of the womb

AMNesia is the condition in the water / when you forget

AMNesty is when God forgets

dAMNation is when God does not forget.

How does God forget? When He sees the Son manifest in your life.

Barnabas 10:1
But forasmuch as Moses said; Ye shall not eat seine nor eagle nor
falcon nor crow nor any fish which hath no scale upon it, he
received in his understanding three ordinances.

---Again, ordinances are there to point you to the higher truth. No truth can be gained apart from the right ears. Ears are seed and seed comes when the heart (Soil) is prepared.

Barnabas 10:2
Yea and further He saith unto them in Deuteronomy; And I will lay
as a covenant upon this people My ordinances. So then it is not a
commandment of God that they should not bite with their teeth, but
Moses spake it in spirit.

---Teeth is the hebrew letter SHIN. Food is knowledge and knowing requires being pressed with pressure. Once a seed is pressed, it bursts open and a new thing is created. Again, having ears is necessary. Ears are representative of seed and grain. Grain is used to produce bread. Literally, our opened ears will allow us to be reborn into the waters and eventually into the new Spirit we inherit.

Barnabas 10:3
Accordingly he mentioned the swine with this intent. Thou shalt not
cleave, saith he, to such men who are like unto swine; that is, when
they are in luxury they forget the Lord, but when they are in want
they recognize the Lord, just as the swine when it eateth knoweth not
his lord, but when it is hungry it crieth out, and when it has
received food again it is silent.

---Food is knowledge. When do you cry to the Lord? When you need assistance. The point is well taken here if you get what he is saying. Love the Lord as you love others. Love others as you love the Lord. Do not be duplicitous or double minded. Do it for the right reason. Good is its own reward.

Barnabas 10:4
Neither shalt thou eat eagle nor falcon nor kite nor crow. Thou
shalt not, He saith, cleave unto, or be likened to, such men who now
not how to provide food for themselves by toil and sweat, but in
their lawlessness seize what belongeth to others, and as if they were
walking in guilelessness watch and search about for some one to rob
in their rapacity, just as these birds alone do not provide food for
themselves, but sit idle and seek how they may eat the meat that
belongeth to others, being pestilent in their evil-doings.

---Have you ever wondered what it means to eat crow? Should have listened I suppose. Pride makes us open our mouth apart from knowledge. What was the downfall of the 'experts' in the law? They took knowledge for selfish purpose and manipulated the law. What of the moneychangers today? What of the High Priests in Rome today? What of the Builders (Masons) of today? Our world today reflects the thieves in charge. God has put them there for one purpose. Opportunity to repent. Light reveals what it hits.

Barnabas 10:5
And thou shalt not eat, saith He, lamprey nor polypus nor cuttle
fish . Thou shalt not, He meaneth, become like unto such men, who
are desperately wicked, and are already condemned to death, just as
these fishes alone are accursed and swim in the depths, not swimming
on the surface like the rest, but dwell on the ground beneath the
deep sea.

---In most cases in the Bible, the animals are comparative of archetypes of man. Do you remember, earlier, when he was speaking of the company we keep? We are all fish in the waters of baptism. Some feed off the bottom (what is dropped or lost from the top) and some near the surface and light of the sun.

Barnabas 10:6
Moreover thou shalt not eat the hare. Why so? Thou shalt not be
found a corrupter of boys, nor shalt thou become like such persons;
for the hare gaineth one passage in the body every year; for
according to the number of years it lives it has just so many
orifices.

---Here, he compares the hare to the child molester, which was a common thing in Greek culture. To this day, it is a plague in the Roman Catholic Church.

Barnabas 10:7
Again, neither shalt thou eat the hyena; thou shalt not, saith He,
become an adulterer or a fornicator, neither shalt thou resemble such
persons. Why so? Because this animal changeth its nature year by
year, and becometh at one time male and at another female.

---The scavenger of a leftover caucus and a gender that is changeable. The comparison here should be obvious. The symbolism is the removal of the beast within. Compare to 2 Timothy 3:

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

---18 items. Mark This! 6+6+6

6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

Barnabas 10:8
Moreover He hath hated the weasel also and with good reason. Thou
shalt not, saith He, become such as those men of whom we hear as
working iniquity with their mouth for uncleanness, neither shalt thou
cleave unto impure women who work iniquity with their mouth. For
this animal conceiveth with its mouth.

---Liars will be trapped in their deceit. Do we know any liars today?

Barnabas 10:9
Concerning meats then Moses received three decrees to this effect and
uttered them in a spiritual sense; but they accepted them according
to the lust of the flesh, as though they referred to eating.

---Not all food is good. Remember, food is knowledge and our seed is information. This seed produces in the soil we develop in the waters of life.

Barnabas 10:10
And David also receiveth knowledge of the same three decrees, and
saith; Blessed is the man who hath not gone in the council of the
ungodly--even as the fishes go in darkness into the depths; and
hath not stood in the path of sinners--just as they who pretend to
fear the Lord sin like swine; and hath not sat on the seat of the
destroyers--as the birds that are seated for prey. Ye have now the
complete lesson concerning eating.

---Again, comparison here is to the bottom feeders of this life. Eating is what we ingest into the body. What comes out of the body is what matters.

Matthew 15: 17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.

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Barnabas 10:11
Again Moses saith; Ye shall everything that divideth the hoof and
cheweth the cud. What meaneth he? He that receiveth the food
knoweth Him that giveth him the food, and being refreshed appeareth
to rejoice in him. Well said he, having regard to the commandment.
What then meaneth he? Cleave unto those that fear the Lord, with
those who meditate in their heart on the distinction of the word
which they have received, with those who tell of the ordinances of
the Lord and keep them, with those who know that meditation is a work
of gladness and who chew the cud of the word of the Lord. But why
that which divideth the hoof? Because the righteous man both walketh
in this world, and at the same time looketh for the holy world to
come. Ye see how wise a lawgiver Moses was.

---Again, choose the right company to keep. Amazing knowledge if you can see and hear.

Barnabas 10:12
But whence should they perceive or understand these things? Howbeit
we having justly perceived the commandments tell them as the Lord
willed. To this end He circumcised our ears and hearts, that we
might understand these things.

---Can you hear what he is saying to you? What kind of soil is your heart made of? Do you want to improve this situation? Simply pray for faith to come. That's it. one small seed of faith and the rest is God's work in and through you.

God Bless. AMEN!