Playlist: Corn (topic)
Are Things Upside Down? (Part One)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The USDA has paid costly subsidies to farmers and has mandated that they grow hybridized, gene-spliced corn and wheat, which produce a high gluten content.
Pentecost, Consistency, and Honesty
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe "old corn" of Joshua 5:11 (KJV) was the provisions Israel had harvested from the Canaanites and set aside, not a Wavesheaf offering. Leviticus 23:14 forbids eating bread, parched corn, or green ears of a harvest until the sheaf offering is made, and some use Joshua 5:10-11 to claim Israel waved the sheaf that year, so that …
The Sacrifices of Leviticus (Part 4)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe concept of corn enters the discussion of the meal offering through Isaiah 28:28, part of a parable illustrating God's orderliness, comparing His faithful, predictable ways to the methodical process of a farmer. The verse states that "bread corn is bruised," meaning that grain must be ground or bruised in order to yield any …