3. I am sending down bread from heaven for you

 

3. I am sending down bread from heaven for you

(Two fish and five barley loaves)

 

Exodus 16:4-5 “Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk.” in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

『 I will rain bread from heaven for you 』The Hebrew Bible says ( מכרם לכחחם מԴןԾהששרם מלים )  Matir Rachem Lehem (מԷמטԴԥיר ל۸כԶԛם ל۶ۖח۶ם) translated, 『I will make it rain (מט֥יר), bread (מ۷מ۰ט۴ۥי) for you (ל۸כ۶ۛם). ר)』Rain and giving bread should not be combined, but rain and bread should be separated. The meaning becomes clear.

So, it is a symbolic image of rain and rice cake falling at the same time. Rain means water and fish in the miracle of the five loaves and two fish, and rice cake means five barley loaves. The above words are similar to the sign of five loaves and two fish.

In the two fish, the fish symbolizes water, and the two are the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament and the two commandments of the New Testament, meaning the second New Testament. The two commandments of the New Testament are about life gaining forgiveness of sins. It symbolizes the blood of Jesus.

The five loaves are five barley loaves, and the five symbolize the laws of the Five Books of Moses, signifying the completion of the laws. The fulfillment of the law is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross. The symbol of five loaves of bread and two fish symbolizes dying on the cross and being resurrected together with Jesus.

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