It Was A Riddle Not A Command

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You Can Learn the Secret Meaning of:

No One Knows the Day of the Hour

 Why does no One Know When Jesus was born?

When Does the Thief in the Night Come?

Why Are the Foolish Virgins Rejected?

No One Knows The Day or The Hour is a Hebrew idiom or parable.

Jesus spoke in parables to conceal His message which He later explained to the Apostles.

No One Knows The Day or the Hour is telling you the very day He will come back on! 

The exact opposite to what you thought it said!

This is the very same day when He first came.

The Book of Revelation Tells you the very day and hour He was born.

You are given clues in Revelation about the thief that comes in the night, about being caught naked and ashamed. All of these clues tell you about the very day He is coming back.

Paul wrote to the Thessalonians telling them they had no need to write them about the Day of the Lord

FOR THEY KNEW FULL WELL THE MOEDIM!!!

Knowing the Moedim shows you the Day and Hour No Man Can Know.

We are also told about the Two Witnesses in the Book of Revelation…
What revelations do the Two Witnesses show you about the birth of Jesus?

There was a heavenly Host praising God when Jesus was born.
This, too, tells you the Day He was born.

Are you aware that the 5 Foolish Virgins did not understand what the Thief in the Night was?
Do You?

All these questions and so much more are explained in detail.
It was a Riddle for us to figure out.
It was not a command that we could not know.
We can KNOW.
YOU Can Know!

Thoroughly researched and profoundly significant!

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There just isn’t a better book on Christian prophecy than this! What an eye opener!

Of the many books and articles that I have read on prophecy in my personal search for truth, this is the only one that does not rely on old ideas that were developed hundreds of years ago when knowledge was minimal. So much more has been learned through historical and archeological research. The world has changed so much that before now no one could have clearly envisioned how prophecy might play out.

I think the average Christian doesn’t realize that recent developments in technology and huge increases in knowledge offer us a unique opportunity to raise the veil so that we might see clearly what was once hidden behind a dark glass.

After learning about these things and seriously considering the Bible, with a willingness to set aside my traditional beliefs about prophecy, I have come to the conclusion that this book is inspired by God. Mr. Dumond presents compelling information that overturns long held assumptions and unverified beliefs making the entire body of prophetic knowledge fully accessible. As a matter of fact I think that just about anyone with no previous knowledge of the Bible would understand things that scholars have devoted their lives to explaining.

I would like everyone to know what is being shown in the pages of this book. No serious truth seeker should pass up the opportunity to have their eyes opened through its revelations. I believe it is the most important book ever written,- next to the Bible itself.

Thank you Joseph Dumond.

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The Stones Cry Out Part 1 & Part 2

Do you want to know how to prove the Zadok Calendar, the Enoch Calendar, and the Book of Jubilee Calendar false?

Do you want to know how the calendar issue became so confusing?

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In The Stones Cry Out, I walk you through the history of each change and why those changes came about, starting with the Maccabean days. Yes, it all began around 164 B.C. When Yehshua was here, he was dealing with two schools of thought. The Sadducees were all but wiped out when the Temple fell in 70 C.E. This left only the Pharisees, who began to be persecuted after the failure of the Bar Kochbah Revolt in 134 C.E.

The truth began to become out of focus around 160 C.E. when Rabbi Jose wrote the Seder Olam. This work originally was written to proof Simon Bar Kochbah was the Messiah. When that did not pan out the history was later revived and then redacted as the truth into the Mishneh Torah by Rabbi Judah ha Nasi in 180 C.E. After this the Jerusalem Talmud begins to debate these issues. It was then during this time as the Jerusalem Talmudist are forced to flee and the Babylonian Talmudist continue to grow until the 6th century that Hillel came up with a solution to help them keep the Holy Days at the proper time while they were out of the land of Israel. He did this in 358 C.E. This work was then modified and adjusted over the next 800 years with additions added and other rejected. Until it was finally redacted once again in 1177 by Rambam. And with that we now have the modern Hillel calendar which includes the errors passed on during each redaction. These errors included the time of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years.

Once the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E., the Jews recorded time by counting from the time It was destroyed. This is why the 40 tombstones of Zoar, which record this information, are crucial to understand.

When you understand why the Postponement rules were first created so that the crescent moon would not be seen in another part of the world before it was seen in Israel then you can understand how they were still trying to follow the crescent moon to begin the month. The Tombstones show us this exact thing. The tombstones also show us when the Jews changed from a crescent moon to a Conjunction moon to begin the month. They also show us when the Jews changed the year from the month of Aviv to the Tishri to begin the year.

I really want you to understand these things so you know why you do what you do as far as following a calendar to keep Yehovah’s moedim.
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I would like to add this recent comment to encourage you all to get this book and learn these truths. And the Book is FREE. You have no reason not to get it.

Most people assume that Hillel created the calendar in 358 C.E. They then assume that because it was a Sanhedrin, they are not allowed to change in order to obey Yehovah. The Hillel calendar has been changed many times since 358 C.E. up until 1177 C.E. Few people talk about these changes but we do in our latest Book The Stones Cry Out Part 1 which is free on our website. The Hillel calendar was changed on many occasions and many sought to make other changes during this time. They never needed a Bet Din to approve those changes. They just did them. So this excuse that we do not have the right to obey Yehovah because the Bet Din has not approved it is a crock of crap.
You have the obligation to obey Yehovah. You have the duty to prove which calendar you are to go by. You must prove it beyond all doubt. Yehshua never followed the Hillel calendar. Nor did any of the Apostles.
The reason no man can know the day or the hour is because it refers to a crescent moon to begin the 7th month. That is the day He was born on and the day He comes to judge on. At a day and hour no one can know. Using the Hillel calendar predicts Yom Teruah years in advance so every one knows when to keep it. But even in the Hillel calendar they keep two days of Yom Teruah reckoning back to the sighted moon. Also in the postponement rules developed long after Hillel, they again state that if the conjunction is at a certain time then the day begins at such and such, in order that the moon will not be seen in another part of the world before it is seen in Israel. That was rule number 2.
Everyone has to choose. You have the right to be wrong. But if you choose to be wrong then you also must live with the consequences that come with sin. And that is the death penalty for not keeping the Holy Days, these Sabbath at the proper time. It is your choice.
Just because you write in to me to justify your position does mean it is right. It just means your sounding off.

Allow me to share this endorsement of our latest book again. If you have read our books, please share your thoughts about them with us in the comments below or email me.

And yes, many observe the Equinox.  There are many who are deceived, improperly educated.  And this is why Joe puts out a newsletter every week, why he writes books, why the SightedMoon Zoom Shabbat service started, why he travels to places like England and the Philippines to share this message and why were are going to the NRB in February.  The calendar is always a divisive issue in social circles because the details are many, that’s why there are so many books Joe has written.  I’m not looking to put Joe on a pedestal here.  This is not about Joe worship.  But Joe has tenaciously studied out the calendar from every angle, not to prove himself right, to to seek to find and share what Yehovah is telling us about His Calendar.

In The Stones Cry Out, Joe has shared the history of all the different groups within Israel, and the beliefs they had about the scriptures and the feast days and the calendar.  When you line it all up, you can see for yourself the how and why these misunderstandings and arguments about how and where and why  they came about.

This is my new favourite book and I’m only 60-70 pages in.  And I encourage you to read the footnotes in this one.  Sometimes there’s more footnote on the page than Joe’s words.

Sombra Wilson

When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?

The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.

You can know; it is not a mystery.

As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.

Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.

The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been in use since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.

Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.

We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:

Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.

Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:

1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.

We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.

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There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.

What are we doing and why do we teach this way?

We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.

The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.

Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and you and I are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.

Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.

Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.

We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.

We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s, Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.

Jas 1:5  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.

We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.

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Why Search For the Barley?

First Barley Report From Israel

We compiled a video of various barley search sites this first day.  We want you to join us on this exploration and investigation so that you know what we are looking for and why after the first day, we were still not ready to declare the month aviv.

There are some arguments from other groups that contradict what we are finding.

Argument #1  You can’t find aviv barley when it’s cold and still in the rainy season.
Well we have found plenty of barley that will be ready in time for the waving of the firstfruits on March 8 and look at the condition of the ground here at the Nova Festival Memorial site.  It has been rainy and cold this whole week,

Argument #2 The barley can’t come before the almond blossom’s fall. We have seen it; we have photographs. I just have to find who has the photos and get them uploaded later.

Argument #3 The barley can’t be found before the grapevines are green with leaves. Frank took this great photo at Argamon of a grapevine fully dressed with leaves. I’ll post this also when I get it.

Argument #4 The barley can’t be found before the ewes have dropped their lambs

Argument #5 The barley can’t be found before the storks have come to The Galilee.

Argument # 6 The barley can’t grow on rocky ground.

How much is an Omer and how big a field do we need to harvest that omer?  Pauline has prepared a meme which helps us visualize the size of a field needed.  In order to understand this meme, you will have had to read the previous article and seen the photos of the booth from the NRB.  Hope you didn’t skip reading that.

Now to show you the final evidence we have found, we believe we can safely call this month Aviv.  We found at Shilo, where the tabernacle resided for 369 years, barley in the soft dough stage, and a sufficient amount to harvest the appropriate amount for an omer.

With this barley found, we can now confidently say this month is Aviv, the Passover is on Wednesday evening, March 5.  It was also on a Wednesday that our Messiah Yeshua was crucified. This year is falling in the same pattern as the year 31 AD.  That means that as I write this newsletter, Thursday night, it is now the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath, 6 days before the Passover.

Don’t forget to plan for your foot washing on Tuesday evening and consider fasting from Tuesday before sundown to Wednesday sundown following the fast of the firstborn, which the Last Supper was in honour of.

Yehovah has brought us here at this time to search for the barley. He’s going to protect us. Not one person on the team feels the need to leave. There are other things going on regarding the Red Heifer that I will have to leave for another time to report on.

Second Barley Report Friday February 27, 2026

If you’d like to follow along on this Barley Search Journey, Rose is keeping a daily journal on her blog. She will share as regularly as she can, giving her own personal perspective of the events.

Barley Search 2026 https://share.google/F8ub6MH08vF14EIbh

1 Day: Sorrow and Joy

Sorrow and Joy

I learned that a dear friend passed away.  Her name was Jud.  She was a uniquely talented and beautiful individual.  From the first time I met her, I knew she was special.  I wish we were closer, but I’m sure that fault is mine.  I’m not good at managing friendships.  I have some good friendships in this world, but mostly because my friends are good friends.   

Jud came to my house when I was sick.  She brought me food.  She brought me counsel.  She brought me sympathy.  She brought me friendship. She invited me to her lovely home many times for coffee, feasts, celebrations, and conversations.

I planned to write this post about packing, living through the final days which are too long and too short at the same time, and cashing in my cans and change.  Those things are still present and part of the experience.  But the float has gone from my balloon.  I still feel a sense of accomplishment and joy at the upcoming trip.  Yet my mind keeps circling back to the memory that my friend is no longer shining her light in this world.  The world is diminished without her.  

One thing I’ve learned is that grief doesn’t happen in a vacuum.  The world is not going to stop.  Even though I really want it to just stop and let me off for a minute, the minutes and hours and days will keep right on going by. 

When I made this pilgrimage in 2016, I didn’t actually tell anyone I was going until about a month before I went.  My family knew – but I was not used to sharing my thoughts and experiences back then, and I had no confidence in my writing. When she heard, Jud immediately was interested in my crazy trip.  She wanted to know everything.  She wanted to see pictures, asked such great questions, and encouraged me to start my blog for that trip when I mentioned it.  (So I DID!)  After my trip, she invited me over to chat with her and her husband about the experience.   It meant so much to me to talk to her and I so enjoyed her interest.  

It baffles me that I am now down to just under 1 day away from my adventure beginning!  I have one more day, one Sabbath and I am on my way to Portland!  I’m doing pre-trip things – I brought my work plant home, packed everything I can live without, organized my electronics, and checked for the 300th time that my work time is arranged.  I’ve checked for my passport, my funds and credit cards, and my travel authorization again and again.   

I’ve packed my suitcases, checked my lists repeatedly, removed things, added things, and shooed the animals off my suitcases again and again.  Tonight I will have Sabbath dinner, and tomorrow evening, Rebecca will be here to fetch me, and away to the hotel I go. 

My flight leaves early Sunday morning.  I have a five hour layover at LAX, and there I will meet another friend and we will keep each other company through the trip. I’m so excited to be traveling with a group for the first time ever.    

And during all of it, I will carry a saddness about Jud.  I will miss her and miss knowing she is in the world.  I will think about her.  I will talk about her.  I will remember her.   I will carry her memory with me.  Because I can’t do anything else. 

Keep me in your prayers, my friends.  Pray for blessings and Shalom! (Peace)

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Day 2: Starting the Barley Search

 

Day 2: Starting the Barley Search

 

Tuesday, 2/24/2026

Total miles traveled to date: 8496

Steps taken: 7354

Details: Tel Aviv to Nova Site – to Tel Gamma – to Ashkelon – to Tel Aviv

Total Miles Driven Today:76.4 miles

Today, we did not find enough barley to declare it aviv (ripe.)  More on that in a moment.  There is so much to tell!!

The day was a hard start for everyone.  Almost all parties traveled a long distance the day before and we were a slow moving group.  Fortunately, the hotel had a lovely breakfast for us and a really lovely coffee machine.

 

Go Shawna Photo by Anita

A nice stroll to our parking spot helped get the blood flowing.  Once in the car, we headed south. On our way to our first location, of course we got stuck in the mud.  The men got it out, with Shawna’s excellent driving.  I was very grateful for my beautiful new boots for keeping my feet dry and comfy.

 

Our first stop was the site of the Nova Festival Massacre.  There’s a spiritual weight at this site we could feel as soon as we arrived – a sense of heaviness and sorrow.  As if the space itself remembers the events that happened there.  As if the spirits of violence and fear and sorrow still linger.   In a relatively short time, Israel has turned this site into a well-developed designated memorial.  It’s paved, has signs and bathrooms for visitors.   It’s surprisingly popular.  While we were there, many cars and buses came in and out, carrying people who were coming to pay their respects.  Each time as the teens and families and soldiers approached, the usual activity and chatter of people in groups would diminish, then stop as each person walked among the placards and memorials and signs and photos in mostly silence.

 

What really got me was the scope of it.  Of course, having seen it on the television and social media, there’s a sense of familiarity with the pagodas and buildings on site, and I realized mentally that many had been murdered. But standing there among the photos of these murdered young people, you feel the weight of that loss.  You realize how many there were, and how horrible it must have been for them, and you can see clearly how there was nowhere for them to go to escape.  I can’t help but think of the level of sheer hatred and ugliness of the individuals who did this.  So many lives were impacted in such a short time, and so many beautiful and hopeful young people are taken from the world.

 

These red flowers, anemones, grow naturally on the site. They were blooming as we were there.  The porcelain flowers are part of an art installation called, “Anemone’s Before the Rain.”  You can read more about this here:  Nova Festival Victims Memorial – Wikipedia

 

I talked about how beautiful the green here is this time of year.  I wanted to share some photos and show you what I mean.  Isn’t it lovely!!?  I wish you could see it.

 

Picture by Joe Dumond

Photo by Anita

After a search nearby there for the ripe barley and a lesson in what, exactly we are looking for,  we stopped at a couple of other places, including Tel Gamma.  This archeological site is the location for an ancient city that populated throughout history by several different peoples. See the wiki link here:  Tel Gamma – Wikipedia  And of course, another car got stuck.  And again, the men got it out.   Thanks men!

 

At this location, we tentatively declared that the Barley is almost aviv!!  (See the photos)  Shawna and I also spent a little time examining the pottery shards and other items that had washed down from the tel.

We finished with dinner at a nice pub in the seaside city of Ashkelon, called Archies.  The food was delicious, the service was great, and the beer was very good.

 

 

The Barley

Of course, the reason we are here is the Barley.  The word “Aviv” has a translation of “green heads.”  The barley as it ripens produces a “flag” which stands out above the rest of the grains in the field.  Here in Israel, the wild barley, wheat and oats all grow together but each ripens at a different time.  Yesterday, we learned to quickly spot the difference between the grains, which isn’t hard since the barley stands up higher than both.  The barley grain (on the left in the picture below) has only one “awn” or long strand that sticks out.  The wheat grain has two.  The oats look like bells!  Being able to tell the difference is very important to determine if the barley is ripe.

Barley                 Wheat

 

Yesterday we found some ripe barley, but in order to have enough for wave sheaf day, you must have an omer, which is about enough to fill a big salad bowl.

 

 

Tomorrow, we are headed to the Jordan River valley and JERICHO!!  We are also heading to places unknown and I can hardly wait!!  I also cannot wait to share that with you all.

 

I’m so very grateful to be here.  Thank you for reading.

 

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Day 3: Barley in the Jordan Valley

 

Day 3: Barley in the Jordan Valley
February 25, 2026

Total miles traveled to date: 8642

Steps taken today: 12,009

Steps taken to date: 35,371

Details: Tel Aviv to a En Malqoah – to Gilgal – to Checkpoint Charlie – to Jordan River Baptismal Site – to Sea of Galilee

Total Miles Driven Today:146 miles

Today, our day started like the others.  We met in the breakfast room and enjoyed a nice breakfast and much needed coffee.  After breakfast, we made our way to our cars.  I confess, walking to the cars is one of the nerve-wracking parts of the day.  That’s because drivers in Israel are a unique breed.  I’ve been all over the US, and drivers can be a little aggressive and sometimes rude, but in general people follow the rules and obey traffic laws.  In Israel drivers are a little bit more fluid with the rules.  That being the case, it is essential to pay attention and for the pedestrians to have self-preservation in mind.  We headed to the Jordan River Valley.  I was so impressed with the beauty of the drive.  We went over the mountains, which is so much fun for an Oregonian!  At the bottom of the mountains, we stopped and had some snacks in a little village called En Malqoa.  The cream cheese danish was delicious, and I met this sweet, funny kitty!!

Yes!  This is how he sits.

 

After the restroom break and snack stop, we got back on the road and made our first tourist stop of the day.  We went to someplace everyone reads about in the Bible, but it doesn’t really strike most people to consider – where is this place?  From now on I will see it clearly in my mind.

 

Gilgal:

Joshua 3:19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. 20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.”

Gilgal is the first location that the Israelites camped up after crossing the Jordan.  We turned down a dirt road, then another dirt road, passed through a farm and a flock of sheep with a shepherd, donkey, and a dog, and then on up to a huge flat spot.  Here we found the first and oldest footprint of the Holy Tabernacle in Israel.

Footprint of the Tabernacle

 

The other end of the footprint

 

Their view as they camped here.  Try to imagine it without the farm in front.

 

This is the place that they made sharp tools (there are flint-napped stones everywhere) and they circumcised all of the men and then they celebrated Passover for the first time “in the land.”  This is what it would have looked like!  They crossed over in the first month – the month of Aviv!!  There are signs of them here!  You can see the rock walls in the photo, we found worked stone for the cutting tools, and we saw many, many pottery shards here.

 

We moved on and stopped a few places and then passed through “Check Point Charlie,” a security checkpoint where they look at passports and ID, to a farmer’s field nearby a little village.  Here is a video in response to some rules that people have made up for this search.  In fact, there is a group of individuals who follows this weird idea of keeping the feasts according to the barley. But most of them add other rules to the barley search.  Such as it cannot be in a rocky field, or under a power line, or in a ditch, or along a road, or it must be every field in the whole nation, etc.  None of these things are in the Bible.  The Bible just says when the barley is Aviv.  The rest is “takanote” or made up, extra rules people have put around the rules.  Here’s a video of Joe took.

 

Leaving this place, where we found a very small amount of barley, we drove on down into the Jordan valley and found a farmers field that was plumb FULL of barley on the edges.  We walked a long ways – and up a hill,  and we found….something – I’ll come back to that in a minute.

 

After a very long walk and a thorough search of the barley, we proceeded to the Jordan River!!  We went to the official Jordan river baptism site.  This is the place where Yeshua (Jesus) is reported to have been baptized by John the Baptist and the spirit came down upon him like a dove.  It’s a beautiful location, but we did not decide to be baptized here.  One of the features is the relevant scripture repeated, in tile, in so many languages.  It’s very lovely.  We enjoyed the view and the ambience, and moved on to dinner.

 

Because basically across the street from the Jordan river is the Sea of Galilea!  Yes!  The Sea of Galilea!!  The place where Yeshua walked on the water and spent so much time hanging around.

 

We went a restaurant in Tiberius called “Pavilion” and it had a big beautiful enclosed deck where we dined, watching the sun set on the sea at this amazing site which is such a pivotal and important place.

 

I want to post about 100 pictures of it, but here are a few!!

 

Sea of Galilea

Rose                                 Shawna                     Mitzi

Photo by Shane

I can’t say enough good things about the food at the Pavilion.  The staff was excellent, the chef took personal care of us, and the food was so good we could not stop eating it!!  Basically it was a huge pile of meat, after a huge presentation of salad.  I have had a LOT of good food in my life, but this meal will always be one of the best ever.

 

Photo of an excellent dinner Courtesy of Joe

About the Barley

 

Returning the subject of the barley, we believe the barley will be aviv by the time of the wave sheaf offering, which is when the barley must be ripe.   The reason this is so important is that the festival of First Fruits, which requires the barley, is exactly 7 days after Passover.  If the barley is Aviv at the time of the Passover, then you will be able to go out to the barley, cut the omer, and it will be ready to turn into the bread for the First Fruits offering.  If the barley, which grows wild everywhere, is left to continue until it gets to the accepted Jewish calendar, the Hillel calendar, than there will be no barley.

 

When grains are ripe they are still green and you cut them, then farmers leave them in the field.  In response to being cut, the stalks send all of their essence into the grain to make it ripe before it dies.  The barley is then gathered the next day and turned into bread for the offering.  If the barley is not picked at the right time, it will simply fall to the ground and replant itself.  If one waits until the “official” Hillel calendar, and YHVH’s calendar is actually earlier than that, than there will be no “first fruits” for the First Fruits offering.

 

Based on the growth cycle of barley, it should look a certain way at this time.  The barley looked ripe and will be perfectly right by the time it’s time to make the First Fruits offering.

 

That is WHY I’m here.  To learn about the barley, to announce the aviv barley, and by association, to keep the Passover in Israel.  Every year at the end of the meal, the people shout, “NEXT YEAR IN ISRAEL.”  But for me, it’s THIS YEAR IN ISRAEL!!!

 

Since we cannot do more about the barley, tomorrow we are going sightseeing.  We’ll be visiting Ancient Shilo – it’s a long drive, and a large attraction to visit, so I will be sure to share all about it.

 

Thanks for reading, friends!  I enjoy sharing with you, so I hope you enjoy reading.

 

Shalom!

Friday, February 27, 2026

 

Day 4 and 5 – Shiloh and Shabbat

 

Day 4 and 5 – Shiloh and Shabbat
Thursday and Friday – February 25 & 26, 2026

Total miles traveled to date: 8727

Miles traveled today: 85

Steps taken today: 10,518

Steps taken to date: 45,889

Details: Tel Aviv to Shiloh – to Gva’Ot Winery

Total Miles Driven Today:85 miles

Yesterday we traveled somewhere I have been to before – but the last time I went it was a Shabbat, and the facilities were not open.   It was a joy and a pleasure to visit Ancient Shilo (pronounced Shee-low.)

First, of course, was the walk to the car.  This particular morning it was quite cold and windy.  We stopped as we do to pray together, and as we stood and prayed, a beam of sun came down on us.  Hallelu-Yah!!

Hello, Cow

Shilo was another place where the tabernacle was assembled, like Gilgal, but it was more of a permanent settlement for the Israelites.  It was from this place that the tribes individually went out to conquer the land.  It was also the place that Hannah, the mother of Samuel, went forth and prayed and asked YHVH to give her a son.  It was the place that ultimately the tabernacle was destroyed, and the Jewish people were dispersed.  If you are interested in learning more about that, you can read about it here:  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5410544/jewish/The-Mystery-of-Shiloh.htm

The weather was shockingly cold, and the wind blew.  When we first got out of the cars,  I asked the Father to help us out with that.  The wind never ceased, but the rain stopped entirely, and while we talked the sun came out and stayed shining the remainder of the day.  Hallelu-Yah!

After a stop for some coffee and souvenirs, we met the neatest lady!   She told us the story of the red heiffers – the history of what has happened since they were brought from Texas to Israel.  I have tucked that video into here. I tried to upload the video but I’m having technical difficulties.  I will try to post it later.

Next we went and saw the red heifers!  The heifers are required for the new temple.

Leviticus 19:1 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 2 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke. 3 Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.  4 Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting. 5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung. 6 The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
7 Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. 8 The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
9 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin. 10 The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

Basically, soap is made from the ashes, and then the soap is used to make the priests ceremonially clean.  The red heifer story in modern Israel is, in itself, an interesting story.  The man who had the cows was a Texas rancher – the rancher started growing the cows because he wanted to grow red heifers like the Bible says.  So when the priests approached him about them, he was thrilled to provide the cows.  See that story here: https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-717650

We walked into a plain room with a lot of chairs.  The production started, and we listened to the story of the cows and what brought them here.  After the production, the screen opened up and there behind were four somewhat bored looking cows.  The closest cow did not look amused, but with some patience on my part, she eventually turned and looked at me.

She was not amused.

 

This was followed by a visit to a “holographic” temple, which was actually kind of neat, but I did not get any photos. The presentation brought to life the tabernacle experience, and highlighted various parts of the tabernacle.  Then we looked at several archeological digs and remnants of the former civilizations that lived there on our way to the top of the hill.

A lookout has been built there, with a small museum on the bottom floor, and a screen room at the top.  There we watched the story of the tabernacle and the story of Hannah, which was a lovely thing.

The presentation/lookout tower

Finally, we strolled down to the location where the tabernacle would have stood.  As we walked, my heart became full of song. I began to sing and hum and all of the songs that came into my heart were songs about His holiness, entering the temple, and blessings upon us.  The wind carried away my song offering.

The view from the Tabernacle

Eventually, I began to walk back down with Shawna.  As we chatted, I shared a confidence with her: I had always wanted to start a non-profit that focuses on helping people, especially Christians, come to Israel.  I feel like American Christians are detached from the roots of their faith, and so many of them do not consider travel to Israel because it is so expensive.  A family of six or eight or ten would find it prohibitively expensive.  I even have a name for it: Bridge to Zion.

When I left Israel in 2016, my heart burned to do this, but I could never gain any traction, I didn’t have the connections, and eventually I let it go and let the dream die.

As I was walking with Shawna, we passed a couple of people who happened to be sitting there.  They heard us chatting, and one of them said she had a book with a list of tour guides that could help with this!  It was a book she had bought here at Shilo some months before, and she let me take a picture.  Shawna told them that I tend the widows of our group, and they blessed me for doing so. As I write my skin is breaking out in goose flesh.  Those were the only people we passed the entire walk down, and the fact that we were discussing that exact thing as we passed so they could hear can only be a god-incidence.  Perhaps Bridge to Zion is not dead.  Perhaps it was only asleep.

We then got a recommendation for a winery nearby, and we hurried to enjoy a meal. What followed was a delicious wine, cheese, olives, and bread experience, and more chatter and talk.  The winery, called Gva’Ot, was wonderfully accommodating to such a large group of people.  They helped us order, fed us fully, and then we headed back to Tel Aviv.

I confess I took up all the oxygen in the car on the way back. I have always wanted to discuss so many things with Joe! We found out that Joe and I are cousins!  In a manner of speaking.  We both descend from William the Conqueror, and eventually learned that Johann, a fellow traveler, also has these family roots hiding in their tree.

Anyone who makes the mistake of letting me talk about my genealogy for too long will get an earful, and they might also find out that I am a little bit nuts.  I believe that most Hebrews are descended from the line of David somewhere along the way. Of course, people intermarry and clans combine, and it’s impossible to tell without a DNA test and a genealogy search to be sure, but I know for YHVH that the children of Israel were never lost.  My own father knew very little about who we were, and where we came from.  My own revelations for him were very exciting and I wish he could be here to meet other long-lost cousins as I am getting to know.

Modern peoples, especially Americans, have forgotten where we come from.  We are Americans, full stop.  What our families were before that seems irrelevant.  It took digging, real effort, to locate my family tree and educate my own self on who we are and where we came from.  It’s clear that the people I come from were the founders of our nation, and that the Father knew exactly who we were the whole time.

I finished my day with a walk to the Mediterranean to see the sunset.

 

This evening begins the Sabbath for us.  This morning, we all declared we believe the barley to be aviv, so we will keep the holy feast this next week.  We will dine together tonight, and tomorrow we will do very little – we will pray and sing and rest, as Hebrews do.  As I prepare for this Sabbath, I keep finding tears running from my eyes.  I was so alone for so long in the Sabbath and the feasts, so certain that I was doing the right thing but also so lonely in the doing.  I was always the peculiar one – the one saying no to going out, to eating out, to doing things, to working.  To be able to share this weekly Shabbat with my fellow travelers is almost more joy than I can stand.  To be able to enjoy the richness and goodness of the Shabbat right here in the promised land fills my heart with song and the joy is leaking out of my eyes.

If you have never taken a Sabbath, I invite you to join us just to experiment.  Cancel your plans for Saturday and stay home.  Read the Bible, watch a movie, enjoy your family, play a game, go for a walk.  Slow down, breathe it in, and worship your god.  If you choose these things, I pray the mystery of the Sabbath is revealed to you, and that you find yourself satisfied with his goodness and refreshed for the week to come.

Blessed are you, YHVH our god, King of the Universe, who sanctifies us with his commandments, and who commands us to keep the Shabbat.

Shabbat shalom, from Tel Aviv!

Rose Treasure’s Second week

If you’d like to follow along on this Barley Search Journey, Rose is keeping a daily journal on her blog. She will share as regularly as she can, giving her own personal perspective of the events.

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