Armageddon Photograph - Unless The Grain Of Wheat Falls Into The Ground And Dies by Sandra Pena de Ortiz

Unless The Grain Of Wheat Falls Into The Ground And Dies is a photograph by Sandra Pena de Ortiz which was uploaded on February 13th, 2013.

Unless The Grain Of Wheat Falls Into The Ground And Dies

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by Sandra Pena de Ortiz

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Unless The Grain Of Wheat Falls Into The Ground And Dies

Artist

Sandra Pena de Ortiz

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A beautiful view of an enchanting wheat (Triticum aestivum) field in the Jezreel Valley of Israel. The photograph was taken during my tour of Israel in April 2007. Note the beauty of the wheat, with the clear display of thousands of golden and bright wheat heads, which contain the wheat inflorescence with the spikelets are produced: one of the small few-flowered bracted spikes that make up the compound inflorescence of a grass or sedge. The Jezreel Valley is filled with such fields as the one you see since the fertile alluvial soil of the valley make it the breadbasket of Israel. Indeed, the Jezreel Valley is a large fertile plain, south of lower Galilee and of the West Bank in the Palestinian territories. Moreover, since the valley is the site were several great ancient battles most notably, the battles of El Megido on the 15th century BC, 609 BC, and in 1918 during World War I. Thus, the Greek assigned it the name of "Armageddon".
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The word Jezreel means "God sows" or "El sows", which is of great Biblical and mystical significance. "God sows" reminds me of the parable of the wheat of grain spoke by Jesus and presented in John 12:24. The verse says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." So when I was beholding this magnificent wheat field, full of glory and golden beauty, I remembered this verse. Jesus likened Himself to a grain a wheat. Just before He spoke these words, men wanted to make Him king because He has raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11). However, his response was to liken Himself as a small grain of wheat that should fall to the ground and die. Of course, He was referring to His crucifixion and death, which later ensued. When a grain a wheat falls into the ground it dies, its shell is opened to released its germinating life. This is exactly what happened to Christ in His death. He germinated, not only to resurrect, but also to produce many other grains, which are His many brothers (Romans 8:29). He did not want to "remain alone", but to produce "much fruit" in resurrection.