In Deuteronomy 24:19-22, we learn that God instructed the people of Israel not to glean their fields, olive groves, or vineyards after the harvest. They were to leave the remaining harvest for strangers, orphans, and widows.

 

19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

 

This instruction reveals a trinity that refers to the fields, olive trees, and vineyards and is related to God’s measure of provision for strangers, orphans, and widows. According to the Word of God, we know that the unity of three in the form of a cord is not easily broken in spiritual warfare (cf. Ecclesiastes 4:12).

 

12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

 

 

First and foremost, Jesus speaks of two separate gatherings of saints in His name, which is why we can recognize the dimension of the Father’s will in this, which is a fellowship and another fellowship that can be mathematically described as ‘1+1’, resulting in ‘2’.

 

The numerical value of ‘1’ is connected to the Hebrew letter ‘Aleph’, which is, among other things, the first of the ‘leading letters’ of the Hebrew alphabet and can also be described as the ‘father letter’.

 

The numerical value of ‘2’ is connected to the Hebrew letter ‘Beth’, which among other things encompasses the ‘house’, which is a place where people come together.

 

If you put these two letters together, you get the Hebrew word for ‘father’, which is ‘Ab’, consisting of ‘Aleph’ and ‘Beth’.

 

Since Jesus said that He did not come in His own name, but in the name of the Father, and that He did not speak His own words and do His own works, but those of the Father, the above statement in connection with the gathering of saints has a special meaning (cf. John 5:19.43; John 7:16).

 

John 5:19.43:
19 Jesus gave them this answer: ‘Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. …
43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

 

John 7:16:
16 Jesus answered, ‘My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. …’

  

If we now consider the first-mentioned gathering of saints that Jesus spoke of, those who gather in His name, we can recognize that in a spiritual context it is about three persons, since Jesus is in their midst.

 

 

This makes the numerical value ‘3’ recognizable, which in the Hebrew language is the ‘Gimel’, related among other things to a ‘camel’. In addition to other meanings, the ‘camel’ encompasses ‘servanthood and a bearing of glory, which is linked to the right of access to the kingdom of God.’ (cf. Isaiah 60:6-7 i.c.w. Matthew 19:24)

 

Isaiah 60:6-7:
6 Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the Lord.
7 All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple.

 

Matthew 19:24:
‘… 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’

 

In Matthew 18:20, Jesus speaks of two independent fellowships that follow one another, in which a dimension of grace and spiritual warfare is shown, which comes to light through His presence, because this results in the letters ‘Gimel – 3’ and ‘Daleth – 4’ (Note: when three saints are together in His name and Jesus joins them). The Hebrew name ‘Gad’ is derived from these two letters. This name means ‘fortune, favor, grace’ and has its origin in ‘battle’.
Furthermore, the tribe of Gad, together with the tribe of Reuben and the tribe of Simeon, camped on the south side of the Tabernacle, where the Menorah - the seven-branched candlestick - was standing (cf. Exodus 40:24-25).

 

Exodus 40:24-25:
24 He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle 25 and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

 

The two independent fellowships of saints mentioned by Christ tell us about the spiritual level, which is based on the work of the Spirit of God, made up of ‘2+3 saints’ who have gathered in His name. As a result, the Spirit of God begins to move to reveal the presence of Christ within the respective fellowship.

 

This is indicated by the numerical value ‘5’, which is the ‘breath’, i.e. the ‘Spirit of God’. The reason for this is hidden in the fact that the numerical value ‘5’ is connected to the Hebrew letter ‘He’, which means ‘breath, breeze’, calling us to recognize the revelation given by God in the moment.

 

Furthermore, it shows that the Lord doesn’t just count a single fellowship of saints who come together in His name, but He unites the measure of saints within the respective fellowships because He values the spiritual unity in His Son Jesus Christ.

 

 

Through the presence of the Son of God in the respective fellowship and the addition of the Father, the dimension of the ‘5 saints’ who have gathered in His name becomes a dimension of ‘7’ through the presence of Christ. This dimension of the ‘7’ reveals the presence of the crowned Word of God, i.e. His glory, which arises from His Word and is like a ‘crowned sword’, as indicated by the ‘Sajin’ as the seventh Hebrew letter with the same numerical value (cf. Hebrews 4:12).

 

Hebrews 4:12:
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

 

This presence of the Word of God results in pure spiritual transparency (cf. Hebrews 4:13).

 

Hebrews 4:13:
13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

 

Furthermore, as already mentioned, the two aforementioned communities of saints who gathered in His name (Note: ‘2+3’) make clear the dimension of the spirit (‘5 => He = breath, breeze’) and the structure of the spirit (Note: ‘7 => Sajin = Menorah’), which are the number ‘5’ and the number ‘7’.

 

It is therefore no coincidence that the tribe Gad camped on the south side of the Tabernacle, within which stood the Menorah - the seven-branched candlestick. This message reveals and also shows that Jesus revealed much more to His audience through His statement than is perhaps evident from the text so far.

 

 

The explanation just given about the fellowship of saints in His name, in relation to the Bible passage from Deuteronomy 24:19-22, shows us that it is the LORD Himself, as King, who reveals Himself to strangers, orphans, and widows in the form of the gleaning that has not been done. All three groups of people have gone through challenges by leaving their own culture and losing their parents or husbands. But the LORD has left them a harvest from the field, the olive trees, and the vineyard of the saints. Even though this harvest may not seem large, it is the harvest of the kingdom, which will grow to greatness in the form of a mustard seed (cf. Mark 4:30-32).

 

30 Again he said, ‘What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?

31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.

32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.’

 

This harvest is intended to strengthen the respective persons in their progress with Jesus Christ and to inspire them in their gifts. It is about the symbiosis between heaven and earth, just as the grain grows vertically out of the ground and the olives hang in the tree, waiting to be picked from a higher level with outstretched arms. The same process applies to grapes. This shows that it is in the interest of the Heavenly Father to strengthen believers who have gone through challenges by familiarizing them more closely with the quality of the Kingdom of God, His parenthood, and first love.

 

Related to this is the willingness of the relevant believers to enter the field, the olive trees, and the vineyard to ‘pluck’ the fruit, so that they may grow economically (Note: sheaf/grain), in righteousness and in the correct biblical Messianic understanding, which encompasses a Hebrew way of thinking (Note: olive trees; cf. Romans 11:16-24; Isaiah 61:3), as well as in their loving relationship with Christ Jesus (Note: vineyard; cf. Song of Songs 8:11-12 i.c.w. John 15:5).

 

This can also be described as the walk in the third day of creation, whereby the third day is also connected with the resurrection of Jesus from the dead (cf. Genesis 1:10-13 i.c.w. Matthew 17:22-23; Acts 10:39-40).

 

10 God called the dry ground ‘land’, and the gathered waters he called ‘seas’. And God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, ‘Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.’ And it was so.

12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

13 And there was evening, and there was morning – the third day.

 

22 When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, ‘The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.

23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.’ And the disciples were filled with grief.

 

39 ‘We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. …’

 

To bring forth the potential of the third day, it is necessary for us as saints in Christ Jesus to choose our words correctly and to communicate according to God’s plan. This results in the manifestation of the Promised Land, like how the people of Israel walked through the divided waters of the Jordan River to enjoy the harvest of the land of Canaan (cf. Joshua 3:15-17 i.c.w. Joshua 5:10-12).

 

15 Now the Jordan is in flood all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, 16 the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

17 The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.

 

10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.

11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

12 The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

 

The Promised Land is closely connected with walking in steadfastness and the accompanying roar of the Lion of Judah, which activates the prophetic quality in us to speak the words of God that He has on His heart and wants to release on earth (cf. Amos 3:7-8 i.c.w. 1 Corinthians 14:1; Numbers 11:29).

 

7 Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

8 The lion has roared – who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken – who can but prophesy?

 

1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.

 

29 But Moses replied, ‘Are you [Note: Joshua] jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!’

 

In connection with the threefold principle, the LORD let me know that this refers to the third title of Jesus Christ, the eternal King, who, among other things, bears a name that only He knows (cf. Revelation 19:12).

 

12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no-one knows but he himself.

 

This title encompasses the realm of the unknown spiritual realm, which is still hidden from us but exists with God, and where the Lord desires us to approach this unknown through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. God wants us to long to come to the knowledge of the truth for this time and the time to come, as well as to do the will of the Father (cf. Exodus 24:15-18 i.c.w. Exodus 34:5; John 16:13-15).

 

15 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, 16 and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud.

17 To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

 

5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.

 

13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.

15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.’

 

The spiritually unknown is like the starting point of the Holy Spirit and its destination, as Jesus said to Nicodemus (cf. John 3:8).

 

8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.’

 

Thus, according to these principles, we may align ourselves in trust in God’s wonderful provision and be ready to allow ourselves to be used by the Spirit of God to bless others.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm