God was purposeful right from the start. He knew exactly what He wanted to do and precisely how He wanted to do it. He chose seeds to establish replication. Everything needed for the new plant to come into being is contained in the seed.
Seedtime and harvest recognize the basic cycle of sowing and reaping. Seedtime is the expected process of placing seed in the ground. This presupposes that the seed has been collected and prepared at the end of the previous harvest for use
We can learn a great deal from the passage above. The writer is Moses, and he has recorded the words of God here as He addresses Himself to the transition from their captivity in Egypt to their new existence in the so-called Promised Land.
The cycle of winter, spring, summer, fall, and winter again keeps repeating in an unending pattern. The falling rains and melting snows water the earth. However, without seeds, what good is it all? Perennial plants cannot grow without water
We hear from time to time about this passage, the so-called parable of the Sower. From the following verses, perhaps it would be more accurate to call it the parable of the soils. That is, after all, what it is really about. “Listen then to