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In Joshua 5:12 is written: “The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year.”
It is a little difficult to see the truth that is hidden in these words (English translated from Hebrew), but when one sees the reality of that written says “sons of Israel,” not “Israelites,” that aspect of “sons” says all who entered the Promised Land (Canaan) were sworn in divine marriage to Yahweh, as His “sons.” The meaning of the name “Israel” is this: one “Who Retains el,” where that means one is of the “elohim” of Yahweh – Yahweh elohim. Once everyone was Spiritually transformed in that way, they no longer needed an external source of spiritual food to consume. Everything they needed came to them through their souls being married to Yahweh; and, that means the “sons of Israel” became the manna for those who would possess Canaan (the local peoples and the children to be born to them as well).
This means the physical manna from heaven ceased by changing forms. The ‘manna’ became the “sons of Israel,” which is an entirely different human being than an ‘Israelite.’ The “produce of the land” (call it “crops”) was not wheat grains, olives, grapes and figs. The “produce of the land” would be the judges, Samuel, David, and a whole slew of prophets. The trend there is the failure to reproduce on the land “sons of Israel” in mass numbers, like those who entered near Jericho, with Joshua. The trend was to have little spiritual food available to the Israelites, until they split and broke in two, before going belly-up by space invaders.
When the captives in Babylon were freed by the Persians (free to leave Babylon, but not free to own any land), a new phase of “produce of the land” came, found in what we know as the New Testament. The four Gospels and Acts, plus the Epistles by Saints became the new replacements of spiritual food, taking the place of manna from heaven.
What is forgotten in all of this history is Moses commanding the Israelites in the wilderness (about the manna that fell from the sky): “‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.” But, “No one may keep any of it until morning.” Because, if you leave “part of it until morning,” then “it [will become] infested with maggots and began to smell.” The moral of the story of physical manna is this: It is your daily bread; so, take only as much as you can eat in one day … no more.
That rule never was erased. Just because manna ceased coming from the sky, the same then applied and carried over to the “sons of Israel.” What they said could not be gathered in quantities more than one could digest in one day. If they said more than could be digested in one day, then go back a day later and take another daily dose of spiritual food … but no more.
Then came modern Christians and their total lack of understanding of anything to be considered spiritual food. On Passion Sunday, they gather over twenty-five hundred words of spiritual food, written by one Saint. They do not bother trying to understand it. They just love to heap it in one huge pile and then sit back in pews and watch it turn to maggots and stink to high heaven. There are no “sons of Israel” leading any of the modern Christian churches.
