Day 13: I Shall Eat My Bread to the Full and Dwell in My Land Safely – All Because of Jesus!

Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Leviticus 26:5

The harvest period of ancient Israel can be divided based on its major crops (grain, grape and olive) to the spring grain harvest, the summer grape harvest and the autumn olive harvest.

A bountiful year of grain harvest is marked with the overlap of the threshing of harvested grain and grape-picking. This happens when a good amount of rain has watered the fields causing abundance of grain from barley and/or wheat and possibly early ripening of grapes. This means the grain harvest is so plentiful that it takes longer to finish the threshing that it goes on until grape-picking season starts.

A bountiful year of grape harvest is also marked with the overlap of the picking of grapes into the season for sowing. This means the grape harvest is so plentiful that it takes longer to consume what grapes have been harvested.

Such a year means one will never go hungry and in fact will be satiated in every meal. This is why it says you shall eat your bread to the full.

In the old covenant, this promise of God is dependent on man’s religious observance of the law but in the new covenant, this is already guaranteed for everyone who believes and receives Jesus because all of God’s promises are Yes in Jesus and Amen in Christ to the glory of God. [2 Corinthians 1:20]