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Psalms 1:1-4
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the
path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of Yahweh, and
in His law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of
water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he
does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives
away.

Psalms 80:8-13
You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted it. You cleared the
ground before it, and it took deep root and filled the land. The mountains were covered
with its shadow, and the cedars of God with its boughs. It was sending out its branches
to the sea and its shoots to the River. Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all
who pass that way pick its fruit? A boar from the forest eats it away and whatever moves
in the field feeds on it.

Psalms 92:12-14
The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still
yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green...

Isaiah 40:23-24
He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Scarcely have they been planted, scarcely have they been sown, scarcely has their stock
taken root in the earth, but He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the storm
carries them away like stubble.

I Corinthians 3:6-7
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who
plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

A great many more Scriptures could be cited, as the comparison of men to plants is
one of the most abundant analogies that Yahweh uses in the Bible. There are truths that we
can glean (pun intended) as we look at men in this light.
One thing that is observable in the natural realm is that plants bear fruit at different
times of the year. Even so, Yahweh has determined that men should come to maturity at
different times which He has established by His own counsel. Every man must eventually
arrive at a state of conformity to Christ so that Yahshua might "fill all things." However, this
subjection of all men to Christ will occur "each in his own order."
When Yahweh sought to give a testimony of the resurrections of man in the Law
delivered to Moses, He chose to use annual gatherings as the symbol to represent this
matter. Three times a year Yahweh required that all males appear before Him at a place He
would choose. These appointed times (moedim in Hebrew) serve as types of the three
resurrections. Each of them occurred at a time of harvest. The three feasts and the harvests
associated with them are:

Passover/Barley
Pentecost/Wheat
Tabernacles/Grapes