The spiritual significance about the notable three major crops that makes these crops the most important ones for believers is these crops relate to the anticipated redemptive work of Christ, to His resurrected glory, and to believers’ eternal life. In essence, the barley, wheat, and grapes or the fruit of the vine crops represent Jesus the Christ’s three different kinds of souls that will be harvested by the end of the age—end of the world as humans know it. Moreover, since barley, wheat, and grapes are harvested during Israel’s three harvest seasons, these harvest seasons not only symbolize the spiritual principles rooted in the seven annual Jewish feasts but also represent the fulfillment of God’s prophetic appointed times (mo’edim) for believers—God’s appointed times in which He directly redeems and delivers believers. For sure, all of the Biblical mo’edim are prophetic, for they each reveal divine truth about the plans and counsel of the LORD God of Israel who also is the Lord God of us all.

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